Jael

Photograph

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Jael

Entry/Object ID

2025.02.02

Description

Jael, Ogden International High School, 2019. A young black woman, Jael, looks into a bathroom mirror.

Context

While completing a seven-year artist residency in Chicago Public Schools, Pinney conducted a detailed study of predominantly Black and Latinx high schools and how a global pandemic, escalating racial and gender inequalities, and gun violence have affected students. From 2019 to 2022, she photographed day-to-day life at Ogden International in West Town and Nicholas Senn in Edgewater. The resulting series, In Their Own Light: Photographs from Chicago Public Schools, offers a unique, personal look at the city’s youth.

Acquisition

Accession

2025.02

Source or Donor

Pinney, Melissa Ann

Acquisition Method

Gift / Purchase

Credit Line

Courtesy of the artist

Notes

Purchased

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Pinney, Melissa Ann

Role

Photographer

Date made

2019

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

documentary photographs, photographs, visual works (works)

Hierarchy Name

Visual Works (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)

Facet

Objects Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

High school students