AACC Founders' Fellow Exhibition Jazlyne Sabree: Dignified Vulnerability

February 8-March 23, 2025

Located in Community Galleries

Jazlyne Sabree, this year’s AACC Founders’ Fellow, presents an evocative exploration of dignity and vulnerability, oppression and safety, within the African American experience. The AACC Founders Fellowship honors the organization’s founding members by supporting the career growth of recent African American graduates of master’s or doctoral programs in visual arts or art history.

In this exhibition, Sabree employs candid photographs of the African diasporic community, animal hides, acrylic paint, and an array of found materials to confront societal injustices. Her work seeks justice and healing by addressing the enduring harms inflicted on society’s most vulnerable groups, offering a vision for collective restoration.

Person in leopard print outfit lounging on a sofa, holding a phone, with a snowy landscape outside.

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^{Jazlyne Sabree. Rest is a Side Effect of Love, 2024. 36” x 48”. Courtesy of the artist.}

^{AACC Founders Fellow Exhibition Jazlyne Sabree: Dignified Vulnerability is made possible with generous support from the Lyn and Glenn Reiter Endowed Special Exhibition Fund, Christine James and Nick De Toustain, Wendy and Andrew Lacey, Ann and Mel Schaffer, Toni LeQuire-Schott and Newton B. Schott, Jr.*, Margo and Frank Walter.}

^{All MAM programs are made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and Museum members.}