George Floyd Medal by Jeanne Stevens-Sollman Wins 2021 American Medal of the Year Award
2021 American Medal of the Year (AMY) award for her powerful work honoring
George Floyd.
Anton Rose,
Elijah McClain,
Breanna Taylor, and other Black people, when George Floyd’s life was snuffed out by a white police officer in May 2020, Jeanne Stevens-Sollman was overwhelmed, asking herself “Why? What can I do??”
Describing her inspiration, Ms. Stevens-Sollman writes:
“I am an artist, working in my studio, listening to the news of these distance killings in my country that is supposed to be the land of the free. What can I do? I am a sculptor grieving for the injustice in my country. I am a pacificist trying to deal with issues that are difficult to understand. What can I do? As an artist I can try to raise awareness of the inequality of these events, to raise the level of consciousness of what people of color face on a daily basis.
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