What an honor to receive the Sally Logue Award in the Community Arts Association's 2021 Members’ Show for my Triangle Fire collage! View Show Here

My collage is a wordless double-page spread, dead-center in my picture book STEADFAST: Frances Perkins, Champion of Workers' Rights. Made from special papers, trims, and old photos, the collage includes photos I took on location of the Asch Building, former site of the Triangle Factory, now the Brown Building, part of NYU.

The Exhibit was judged by eminent artist and watercolorist Tim Saternow who said:

"Jennifer Merz's collage presents this scene by abstracting the shape of the building, making it quite frightening, and also showing the futility of the firemen who have been sent to help. This abstraction pushes the top of the building skyward, but it is also in reverse perspective, creating a feeling of looming danger and the upcoming tragic consequences. This imbalance, feeling as if it's all about to fall down, is the key to making this an immediate and powerful statement. Merz puts the boldest color at the top of the collage, in an otherwise neutral composition, and directs the eye to the focus of the tragedy."

Thank you, Tim Saternow and CAA for this lovely award!
Please view the entire Members' Show HERE.