Helen M. Stummer



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Helen M. Stummer

171 High Street

Metuchen, New Jersey 08840

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Helen M. Stummer was born January 8, 1936 in Newark, NJ.

In 1977 she earned a BA(Cum Laude) in studio art from Kean University.

In 1978 she received a Certification to Teach Art from Kean.

Stummer participated in classes and workshops at The International Center for Photography in New York City from 1975 to 1982.

She earned a Masters of Arts degree in Visual Sociology from Norwich University/Vermont College in 1987.

In 1997, she was chosen to participate in a week-long workshop In the Maine Photographic Center, Rockport, conducted by Mary Ellen Mark.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1980- The International Center for Photography New York, NY

1986- Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Newark Public Library, NJ

Kean University Gallery, Union, NJ

1988- City Without Walls, Newark, NJ

1989- Child Welfare League of America, Washington, DC

1991- Woodrow Wilson Graduate School, Princeton University, NJ

Frances Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL

1993- Resource Center Gallery, County College of Morris, Randolph, NJ

New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts,Summit, NJ

1994- Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ

1995- Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ

O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York City

Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ

Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ

1998- O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York City

1999- Hazell Center Gallery, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ

2002- Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, NJ

2004- Urban Portraits, New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, NJ

2007- Anne Louise Davis Gallery, Plainfield Public Library, NJ

2007-2008- Bending the Grid: Rest in Peace by Helen M. Stummer, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ. Curator Bonnie Yockelson

2009- Evoking the Spirit, The Noyes Museum, NJ

2011-No Easy Walk: A lifetime of Concerned Photography Brookdale Community College, CVA Gallery. Curator, Professor Gina Merola. Lincroft NJ

2009-2011-Overseeing archiving thirty-five years of her documentary photographs and statements for the Special Collections Archives, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Dr. Ronald Becker

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1985- New Jersey Arts Annual The Newark Museum, NJ

1987- Imagery of Black America, Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ

1998- Annual Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY

1999- Annual Center for Photography at Woodstock. NY

New Jersey Arts Annual, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

2001-Dressing for a New York City Childhood The Museum of the City of New York, NY

2002- New Jersey Arts Annual, Jersey City Museum, NJ

2003- Children at Risk: Protecting New York City's Youths, 1653-2003,

New York Historical Society, NY. Steven H. Jaffe, Senior Projects

Historian

2005- Superfly, Jersey City Museum, NJ

2006- American Diaspora, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ

Turning Silver, Women in Photography International;,

2007- That 70's Show, Power House Arena, Brooklyn, NY

2010- New Jersey Arts Annual: Fine Arts, New Jersey State Museum

2011- 32nd Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Monmouth Museum of Art, NJ

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Rutgers University, Special Collections Archives, New Brunswick, NJ

The Library of Congress, Washington, DC

The International Center of photography, NYC

The Brooklyn Museum

New York Historical Society

Museum of the City of New York

Newark Museum

The Newark Library

New Jersey Historical Society

Jersey City Museum,

Center For Photography at Woodstock, NY

Child Welfare League of America, Washington, DC

Miami-Dade Community College, Fl.

AWARDS AND HONORS

1990- New Jersey Historical Commission grant

1991- Mid-Atlantic Arts Regional Fellowship

1992- County College of Morris Foundation Fellowship and Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship

1995- County College of Morris for Teaching, Excellence Grant 1995

1995- and 2003 awarded grants from the NJ State Council on the Arts

1996- New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Jurgen Thieck Memorial Award for photography

Gordon Parks Photography Competition, Honorable Mention.

1998- Ramapo College of New Jersey, Russ Berrie prize for Making a Difference, Finalist

1999- Stummer’s photograph Quinzel, Cornelius and Hasan was chosen Best in Show from the 1,846 entries submitted to the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts International Juried Show. Lisa Dennison, chief curator from the Guggenheim Museum was the judge.

1999- Open Society Institute, U.S. Programs, Finalist

2003- Stummer’s photograph, Sharell Showing Her Easter Dress to Her Grandmother, included in the Oxford History of Art publication, American Photography, Miles Orvell

2004- Gordon Parks photography competition, Finalist

2006- American Women in the Media, Gracie Allen Award for On the Scene, Channel 12 News

2011-2012 The George and Helen Segal Foundation Grant

2011-2012 Documentary of my photographic career, Karen Kuder

2012 -Distinguished Alumni Award, Kean University, Union, NJ

2013-Who's Who in American Art.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

As a social documentary photographer, Stummer is the author of No Easy Walk, Newark, 1980-1993, published by Temple University Press,

1993.

Out of Darkness: How a Birth Mother Found Herself while Searching for Her Daughter.1998, HMS Press, Ontario, Canada, and 2004 translated and published in France.

SELECTED PUBLISHED PHOTO-ESSAYS AND PHOTOGRAPHS

Hard Choices, Portraits of Poverty and Hunger in America. Westport, Conn. Save the Children Federation, 1984.

International Journal of Visual Sociology Vol.2

(1985): 35.Germany

Fagan, Tricia, and Geismar, Shirley. Abandoned Dreams: New Jersey's Children in Crisis-Services Planning. Newark: The Association for Children of New Jersey, 1985.

Conti, Susan F. Challenge of Change. Newark: The Association for children of New Jersey, 1986.

"Who Are the Homeless? 'We Are All at Risk'" The Sunday New York Times November 9, 1986.

"Ordinary Miseries." Transaction, Social Science and Modern Society Vol 24, No. 3 (March/April 1987):83.

"Views of a Ghetto Community." Visual Sociology Review Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall 1987): 6.

Frame Work: A Journal of Images and Culture Vol. 2, No. 2 CA (1988).

Housing and Homelessness Vol. 63, No. 3 (November 1989)

"Mothers in the Inner City" Transaction, Social Science and Modern Society Vol. 27, No. 5 (July/august 1990):83.

One Childhood, No Second Chance. Newark: The Association for Children of New Jersey, 1990.

"H.O.M.E.: One Woman's Approach to Society's Problems." On the Issues Vol. 15 (Summer 1990).NYC

"Living Without Choices." On the Issues, NYC Vol. 16 (Winter 1991).

"Living in the Trenches: A Celebration of Carol." On the Issues, Vol. 18 (Fall 1993).NYC

"Newark Stories." New Jersey Reporter, A Journal of Public Issues (March/April 1995).

"Newark: Crossing the Line." City Limits, New York's Urban Affairs News Magazine (April 1995) NYC

"Survivors: The Lives and Troubled Times of a Newark Tenement." The Sunday New York Times March 31, 1996.

"Trying to Patch the Holes in the Safety Net (and, Sometimes, the Roof)." The Sunday New York Times June 9, 1996.

"How Mary Cameron Got Her Roof (It Took a Village)." The Sunday New York Times October 27, 1996.

Anderson, Elijah. "Code of the Streets." HOPE, Humanity Making a Difference Vol. 1, No. 1 (January/February 1996). Maine

"Burned Out." City Limits, New York's Urban Affairs News Magazine

"Visual Sociology, Ruoutledge (2012)

"Fragile Peace: Stories and Photographs of Guatemala." Sojourner, The Women's Forum Vol. 22, No. 11(July 1997).

"322 Irvine Turner Boulevard." New Jersey Monthly July 1997.

Newman, David M. Sociology Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life. 2nd ed. Four photographs pp 387407, Douglas Harper: DePauw University, 1997.

"Broken Homes, There's Life Amid the Desolation of Newarks's Tumbling Housing Projects." City Limits, New York's Urban Affairs News Magazine (February 1998).

"Guatemala Diary: Lessons Learned from the Mayans." Transitions Abroad (May/June 1998).

"My Photographic Journey." LensWork Quarterly No. 21 (May 1998). Oregon

"Reconstruction Debris" City Limits, New York's Urban Affairs News Magazine (April 1999).

"In the American City." Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds Vol. 4, No. 4 (Fall 2005)

Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds Vol. 5, No. 4 photograph on pp 43 & 45(Fall 2006)

Readings: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry NYC

(April 1998)

The Sun Magazine, Cover Photograph (August 2004).North Carolina

The Sun Magazine (Winter 2005).NC

The Sun Magazine Cover Photograph North Carolina (January 2006).

Soul's Journal. New York: Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University, 2006.

The Sun Magazine, cover photograph, NC

(July 2007)

The Sun Magazine, (August 2012)

"remembering e.6th street" by Helen M. Stummer, Contexts: understanding people in their social worlds. Volume 12 number 4 pp 60-67. Fall 2013

WRITINGS ABOUT THE ARTIST

"Photographs of Unique Merit and Interest." Camera Vol. 35 (August 1980).

Seidel, Mitchell. "Exhibit Shows 'Life Among the Ruins' in Study of Newark's Central Ward." The Star-Ledger April 29, 1984.

Seidel. "Newark Library Dumps Realistic Exhibit of Urban Poverty." The Star Ledger April 27, 1986.

Weld, Alison. Imagery of Black American. Newark: Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers, The State University if New Jersey, 1987.

Annual Report. Morristown: Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, 1987.

No Easy Walk: The Central Ward. Newark: City Without Walls, 1988.

Smith, Beryl. Women Artists Series. New Brunswick: Douglass Residential College, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1988.

Seidel. "Exhibits Gritty and Glitzy Explore Two Sides of Reality." The Sunday Star Ledger April 15, 1990.

Raynor, Vivien. "Photographs of Lives Caught in Poverty." The New York Times October 7, 1990.

No Easy Walk/Voices of the Inner City. Miami: Miami-Dade Community College, 1991.

Kohen, Helen I. "Children's Portraits Make for Powerful Exhibition." Miami Herald May 26, 1991.

Seidel. "Portraits of the Inner City Provoke Thoughtful Comments." The Sunday Star Ledger May 2, 1993.

Orrick, Phyllis. "Beyond the Poverty Line, Helen Stummer's Decades-Long Photographic Odyssey Among the Urban Poor." The New York Press September 8, 1993.

Raynor. "A Mixture of Messages in Three Shows." The New York Times February 26, 1995.

"Leica View: Helen M. Stummer." Leica Camera, Inc. (Fall 1998): 22. NYC

Orvell, Miles. American Photography: Oxford History of Art. London: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Bending the Grid: Rest in Peace by Helen M. Stummer. Newark: Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, 2007. Catalog

EMPLOYMENT

Independent Press, photojournalist, 1979-82

Irvington High School, NJ Photography and Art, 1982

St Anthony High School, Jersey City, NJ Photography and

Sociology,1983-1985

Scotch Plains/Fanwood High School, NJ Photography 1985-1988

County College of Morris, Randolph, NJ Photography and Photo Journalism1988-2001 Kean University, Photography, 1987-1999

1990-2000 various photographic workshops at the NJ Center for the Visual Arts, in Summit, private lessons for individual students.

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