Size: 20" x 30"
Medium: Photography
Artist: Jeneen Hobby
Inspired by: "Recipe for Civil Right's Leader" by Garfield 3rd - 5th grade team
Suggested Value: $325.00

"I was immediately drawn to the poem, "Recipe for a Civil Rights Leader". It was powerful and full of inspiration, strength, energy, ambition, and uncompromising truth. The poem challenged me to step up to the plate and illustrate it with equal directness. I wanted to interpret the poem in a way that would leave it unadulterated, that is to say, with simplicity, clarity, straightforwardness, and power. The poem made me cry when I first read it. It still makes me cry. I want there to be many more civil rights leaders like these students. I look forward to hearing their voices."

Jeneen Hobby is a Cleveland-based fine art photographer. She exhibits her work and has won awards at juried fine arts festivals across the state of Ohio, in solo and group shows, in galleries, and online. Jeneen is represented by Heights Arts Gallery in Cleveland Heights, and by Something Different Gallery in Ohio City. Her work has been exhibited at the Cleveland Botanical Garden, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport, and other venues. In both 2021 and 2022, she won first place in the landscape category in the Cuyahoga Valley Photographic Society annual contest. She was featured in the Fall 2022 Show at The Nicholson B. White Gallery of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights.