Michael Jacobson-Hardy
21 Garfield Street
Florence, MA 01062
413-584-5898
michael.jacobsonhardy@verizon.net
Education
M.A.T., Smith College, 2010
B.A. Psychology, University of Rochester, 1974
Teaching experience
Photography and audio/video instructor, Northampton High School, 2006-present
Technology Education Department Chair, Northampton High School, 2010-present
Art department substitute teacher, Amherst Regional High School, 2005-2006
Photography instructor, Guild Studio School, Easthampton, 2005
Digital and traditional photography instructor, Snow Farm New England Crafts Center, 2002-2004
Photography instructor and artist-in-residence, Mount Holyoke College, 2000
Edward E. Elson Visiting Artist, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, 1998
University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth artist-in-residence, 1997
Solo exhibitions
Captured Images: The Photograph Comes to Prison-Michael Jacobson-Hardy,
Bankley Gallery, Manchester UK, 2011
Making our Mark: Visual Imprints on the Prison Landscape,
Peter Scott Gallery, University of Lancaster, UK, 2007
Beyond the Monuments in Washington, D.C. and Factories, Schools, Prisons,
Johnson Center and Fine Arts Galleries,
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 2003
Portraits: Michael Jacobson-Hardy, Hampshire College Film and Photo Gallery,
Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2003
Prisons, Factories, Schools, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston,
Massachusetts, 2001
In the Spirit of Peace: The Land and People of Israel, National Yiddish Book Center Art Gallery,
Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2001
Factories and Prisons, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000
Portraits of Upward Bound Students, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum,
Boston, Massachusetts, 1999-2000
Portraits of Phillips Academy Students by Artist-in-Residence Michael Jacobson-Hardy,
Gelb Art Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1999
Behind the Razor Wire: Portrait of a Contemporary American Prison System,
Worth Ryder Art Gallery, University of California at Berkeley, California, 1998
Factories, Schools, Prisons, Visual Studies Workshop Gallery,
Rochester, New York, 1998
Seeing Ourselves: Telling Our Stories, Nada Mason Gallery, Northfield Mount Hermon
School, Northfield, Massachusetts, 1998
Schools, Factories, and Prisons, Women's Resource Center,
Frederick Douglass Unity House, Office of Equal Opportunity,
Office of Multicultural Student Services and the Library,
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, 1997
The Changing Landscape of Labor: American Workers and Workplaces,
University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Massachusetts; traveling to Gallery 1199, Bread and Roses Cultural Project, NYC, 1996
Factories, Schools, Prisons: Photographs by Michael Jacobson-Hardy,
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester,
Massachusetts, 1996 (catalogue published)
The Changing Landscape of Labor: Workers and Workplace,
George Meany Memorial Archives, Silver Spring, MD, 1994
Facing Education: Portraits of Holyoke School Children,
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts; traveling to the
Commonwealth Museum, Boston, Massachusetts and the Doric Hall Gallery, State House,
Boston, Massachusetts, 1993-1994 (catalogue published)
Art Scene: Michael Jacobson-Hardy in conjunction with Lewis W. Hine: Early Work,
Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1993
Legacy of the Peace Movement, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, 1992
Group exhibitions
World Documents: An exploration of documentary photography in an age of globalization, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 2011
Constructed Images of Labor, Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, Massachusetts, 2010
The Massachusetts Review, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2009
Picturing Maine, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Maine, 2006
New York, New York, Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, Massachusetts, 2004-2005
Picturing Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, Massachusetts, 2004
A Visual Feat: Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 2003
From Mill to Museum, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts, 1999-2000
In the Spirit of Peace, Temple Emanu-El, Palm Beach, Florida, 1998
Focal Point: Photographs Acquired by Charles Chetham, Smith College Museum of Art
Northampton, Massachusetts, 1995
History and Technology of Papermaking, Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, Massachusetts, 1995
Local 22, Photo/Film Gallery, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1993
300 Years of American Papermaking, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of
American History, Washington, D.C., 1990-1991
Selected Awards and Fellowships
Northampton High School Photo-Diversity project funded by the Northampton Education Foundation (2012)
Northampton High School Photo-Literacy project funded by the Northampton Education Foundation (2008-2010)
Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue (finalist), Harvard University, (2000)
Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for Behind the Razor Wire: Portrait of a Contemporary American Prison System (1999)
National Council on Crime and Delinquency Award for Behind the Razor Wire: Portrait of a Contemporary American Prison System (1999)
Puffin Foundation (1998)
American Association of University Presses design award for The Changing Landscape of Labor: American Workers and Workplaces (1997)
Soros Senior Justice Fellowship (finalist), The Center on Crime, Communities & Culture (1997)
Nominated for Loeb Fellowship in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard University (1997)
Harburg Foundation (1997)
HKH Foundation (1997)
Nellie Mae Foundation (1997)
Solidago Foundation (1997)
New England Historical Association best exhibit award for The Changing Landscape of Labor: American Workers and Workplaces (1996)
"Millwright in a Paper Mill" photograph mounted in permanent photo mural at the entrance to the Made In America exhibition, Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI (1992)
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities (1991 and 1992)
Massachusetts Cultural Council (1992)
Eastman Kodak Professional Photography Division product support (1990, 1992, and 1997)
Agfa Photo Division product support (1990)
Publications
Books
In the Spirit of Peace: Photographs by Michael Jacobson-Hardy,
(Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., forthcoming).
Behind the Razor Wire: Portrait of a Contemporary American Prison System,
photographs and text by Michael Jacobson-Hardy; foreword by Angela Y. Davis,
essays by Marc Mauer, John Edgar Wideman, and James Gilligan, M.D.,
(New York University Press), 1999.
The Changing Landscape of Labor: American Workers and Workplaces, photographs by
Michael Jacobson-Hardy; text by Bruce Laurie, John Cumbler, and Robert Weir
(University of Massachusetts Press), 1996.
Factories, Schools, Prisons catalogue published by the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art
Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, 1998.
Facing Education: Portraits of Holyoke School Children, photographs
by Michael Jacobson-Hardy, text by Gloria Arce, Myrna Breitbart
and Madelaine Marquez, 1993.
Photographs published in Give Me Liberty! An American History ,
(W.W.Norton & Company, Inc.), 2004.
Photographs published in Mutations, Rem Koolhaas, Sanford Kwinter, (ACTAR), 2000
Photographs published in Child by Child: The Comer Process for Change in Education, Yale Child Study Center School Development Program, (Teachers College Press), 1999.
"Visual Sociology: The Changing Landscape of Labor," photo essay published in Sociology in a Changing World, William Kornblum, Carolyn D. Smith (Harcourt Brace), 1997.
Photographs published in The Enduring Vision by Boyer (DC Heath & Co.), 1993.
Book Cover Photographs
Granny D: Walking Across America in My 90th Year, (Random House), 2001.
At Peril: Stories of Injustice, (University of Massachusetts Press), 2001.
Sharing the Promised Land, (Interlink Publishing Group), 1999.
Journals, Print and Electronic Media
“Photographs by Michael Jacobson-Hardy,” Boston College Magazine, Summer, 2008
Prison photo essay published in Discursos Sediciosos, the main criminology journal of Rio de Janeiro, published by the Instituto Carioca de Criminologia, 2004
"Behind the Razor Wire", Ethnography, Sage Publications, December, 2002
"The Changing Landscape of Labor," photo essay published in ArchitectureBoston, May, 2000
Prison photographs published in "der ueberblick" the quarterly magazine of the
Protestant Churches' Development Services, Hamburg, Germany, March, 2000
Cover photo for "Expanding the Classroom: Fostering Activism and Active Learning," Women's Studies Quarterly, The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, (Vol. 27, Nos. 3 & 4), December, 1999
"Reading, Writing, Race & Resegregation: 45 Years After Brown v. Board of Education," Photo essay in ColorLines Magazine, Spring, 1999
"Replace Jails With Colleges," The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 16, 1998
"Diminished Labor," Center for Popular Economics, 1997
"The Photographs of Michael Jacobson-Hardy," Theory and Event, (Johns Hopkins University Press), 1997.
Photographs featured in Vista, Mount Holyoke College Office of Communications, 1997.
"The Landscape of Labor," Art New England, Vol. 18 No. 1, December, 1996.
"Shipyard workers at Bath Iron Works," The Village Voice, Vol. XLI No. 23, June 4, 1996.
"A Class Threatened With Extinction," The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 5, 1996.
"Behind the Razor Wire in Massachusetts Jails and Prisons," The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 37, No. 1, Spring, 1996.
"The Changing Landscape of Labor: Workers and Workplace," Labor's Heritage, Vol. 6, No. 3, Winter, 1995.
"Behind the Razor Wire," photo essay on Deer Island Prison, Odyssey: Creative Alternatives in Criminal Justice, Spring, 1993.
"Faces, Machines, and Voices: The Fading Landscape of Papermaking in Holyoke, Massachusetts," with an historian's afterword by Robert Weir, The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 33, No. 3, Fall, 1992.
"Men, Women, and Machines," Art New England, March, 1991.
"Vanishing Way of Life in the Old Factories," Boston Sunday Globe, January 13, 1991.
Selected Presentations
Hampshire College Film and Photography, Portraits, 2004
Asnuntuck Community College, In the Spirit of Peace, Middle East Forum, 2004
George Mason University, Photographing in Social Institutions, Department of Art and Visual Technology, 2004
Smith College, Crisis in America's Educational System, Northampton, Massachusetts, 2001
American University, Prisons, Factories, Schools, Department of Justice, Law & Society, Washington, D.C., 2001
The National Yiddish Book Center, In the Spirit of Peace: The Land and People of Israel,
Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2001
The Center for Popular Economics, University of Massachusetts, 2001
Mount Holyoke College, Factories, Schools, Prisons, Gamble Auditorium,
South Hadley, Massachusetts, 2000
International Association For Forensic Psychotherapy, Behind the Razor Wire, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000
Harvard University, Light Conversations, Fogg Art Museum, 2000.
Yale University, School Children, Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut, 1999.
University of California at Berkeley, Factories, Schools, Prisons, Department of Art Practice, Berkeley, California, 1998.
Smith College School of Social Work, Factories, Schools, Prisons (sponsored by the Bertha Capin Reynolds Society and the Council for Students of Color), Nortthampton, Massachusetts, 1998.
Franklin Community Action Corporation, Class and Social Institutions, 1998.
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Factories, Schools, Prisons, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1997.
International Visual Sociology Association, Social Change and Visual Sociology, Department of Sociology, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts, 1997.
University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, The Visible and the Invisible: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Contemporary Social Institutions (sponsored by the Council on Diversity and Pluralism) Dartmouth, Massachusetts, 1997.
College of the Holy Cross, Factories, Schools, Prisons, Cantor Art Gallery; Art History Department, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1996.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, School, Prisons, and Factories, Social Justice Education Program, School of Education, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1996 and 1997.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Massachusetts Prisons from the Inside Out, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1996.
Northfield Mount Hermon School, Prisons, Schools, Factories, presentation given to faculty and students in the Upward Bound Program for disadvantaged young people, Northfield, Massachusetts, 1996.
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Photoactivity: The Camera as an Agent of Social Change, South Hadley, Massachusetts, 1994.
Commonwealth Museum, The Challenge of the '90s-Equity and Excellence in Our Public Schools with Barbara Gardner, Co-Chair, Joint Legislative Committee on Education, Boston, Massachusetts, 1993.
Springfield AFL-CIO Central, The Changing Landscape of Labor, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1993.
University of Massachusetts Labor Relations and Research Center, Workers and Their Machines: Photographing in Mills and Factories, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1991.
Hampshire College Film and Photography Department, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1991.
Holyoke Community College, Annual Journalism Conference, Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1991.
Collections
Whitney Museum of American Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
Addison Gallery of American Art
Smith College Museum of Art
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Henry Ford Museum
Springfield Museum of Fine Arts
University Gallery at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University
Yale University Art Gallery
Harvard University Photography Archive
Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University