Carol Jacobsen

Professor, School of Art & Design

Contact

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Office: 1038 AA
Phone: (734) 763-0473

Curriculum Vitae

M.F.A., Eastern Michigan University, 1980 B.A., Eastern Michigan University, 1975

Biography

Carol Jacobsen is an award-winning social documentary artist whose works in video and photography address issues of women’s criminalization and censorship. Her art has been exhibited and screened at venues worldwide, including New York’s Lincoln Center, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Centre de Cultural Contemporanea in Barcelona, the Kunstforum in Bonn, the Brussels International Film Festival, Rome’s Temple Gallery, the Photography Biennial of Wanganui, New Zealand, Human Rights Watch of Beijing, and by many grassroots organizations.

Jacobson has received awards and grants from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Paul Robeson Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Center for New Television, the Women in Film Foundation, Art Matters, Prostitutes of New York, and No More Nice Girls. Her published articles on art, feminism and politics have appeared in Art in America, Exposure, New York Law Review, Social Text, Lower East Side Journal, and other publications. Her work is represented by Denise Bibro Fine Art in Manhattan.

Carol Jacobsen is the 2005-06 Human Rights Fellow at the University of Michigan. In addition to her teaching responsibilities in art and women’s studies at the University of Michigan, Jacobsen serves as Director of the Michigan Women’s Clemency Project. In that capacity, she advocates for the human rights of women prisoners and seeks freedom for women wrongly incarcerated. Her projects have been sponsored by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, COYOTE, Women’s Prison Association of New York, the American Civil Liberties Association, and other non-profit organizations.

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In the News

• Carol Jacobsen’s Clemency Project in the News
• Jack Lessenberry on Carol Jacobsen’s Fight for Clemency
• Stamps School Shines at CAA
• Carol Jacobsen Exhibits at BGSU
• Nights at the Museum: Stamps Student & Faculty Films at UMMA
• Carol Jacobsen: Visiting Artist at Yale
• Carol Jacobsen Publishes Study in U Penn Law Journal
• Carol Jacobsen’s TV Interview to Free Women Prisoners
• Carol Jacobsen’s Film Reviewed
• Carol Jacobsen Speaks at Fordham University
• Carol Jacobsen: Exhibition at City University of New York
• Carol Jacobsen Interviewed
• Carol Jacobsen Presents Work at University of Amsterdam
• Carol Jacobsen Exhibition: Mistrial
• Carol Jacobsen Exhibits in New York
• Carol Jacobsen Visits Rutgers
• Carol Jacobsen Honored
• Carol Jacobson Interviewed