Stephanie Glass Solomon
Stephanie is a multidisciplinary, white, California artist-activist whose lifetime of art advocates for progressive social change and allyship.
2025 (Forthcoming)
Stephanie’s image of the Foot Soldiers Gold Medal recipient Freddie Mitchell, who marched with Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, will be exhibited as part of the opening of the renovated US Department of the Interior National Historic Selma to Montgomery Trail Museum, Selma, AL.
2024
Four of Stephanie’s images of Women in Protest together with her Foot Soldiers for Justice video were part of a group show, Beyond the Personal, on the campus of the Cypress College Photo Gallery, Cypress, CA.
2023
Stephanie’s photos of Women in Protest were shown at the Worker’s Circle in Los Angeles, CA. Her images supported the Commemoration of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire for International Women’s History Month.
2022
The Foot Soldiers for Justice video was in the FL3TCH3R Exhibit, Reese Museum, Eastern Tennessee State University receiving the 10th Anniversary FL3TCH3R Award.
2020: The photo, Alone Together in the Pandemic, is 2nd place, Aging as Art, Southern California Council on Aging. This image together with the photo Zdenka – Holocaust Survivor is exhibited in three venues by the Council, and online.
2018: Stephanie receives her second photography award from The Puffin Foundation, LTD., to support a Foot Soldiers for Justice exhibit, Antioch University LA, October to November, for a Get-Out-the-Vote campaign. February 2018, images from the Foot Soldiers collection are shown at the Santa Cruz Art League for the exhibit Spoken & Unspoken. Also, the video Foot Solders for Justice is selected for the Women’s Caucus for Art, Art Speaks! Lend Your Voice, Santa Monica, CA., as part of International Women’s Day celebrations.
2017: Images from Foot Soldiers for Justice are on temporary exhibit at the US Department of the Interior National Historic Selma to Montgomery Trail Museum, Selma, AL., at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The images will travel to other Historic Trail Museums in Montgomery and Lowndes County. Documenting the 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, with images from the NAACP Journey for Justice, the entire photo collection of Foot Soldiers is archived by the Museum for future generations. (The images are home.)
2016: The Foot Soldiers for Justice video is in the political exhibit “Three Rings and Two Parties: The Election Circus,” the Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, Oregon. In 2016, Stephanie also received her first Puffin Award for Photography for Foot Soldiers Never Die.
2012: She receives the Mario Fratti and Fred Newman Award for Political Playwriting for her play Being Moved on aging and gentrification.
2010: Stephanie earns the Creative and Performing Artists and Writers Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society for American Voices: Spirit of Revolution.
2008: Co-writes and produces the oratorio American Voices: Spirit of Revolution, the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage, directed/narrated by Dustin Hoffman; with the chamber orchestra conducted by Japanese American Maestro Kent Nagano, who is also the Artistic Director. Cast includes Annette Bening, James Cromwell, Rosario Dawson, and Nate Parker. American Voices is also broadcast on Public Radio.
2005/2003: She produces Kent Nagano’s Manzanar: An American Story by Philip Kan Gotanda and three classical composers. Cast includes Martin Sheen, Kristi Yamaguchi, Pat Suzuki, and John Cho. The work tours UCLA’s Royce Hall, Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall, and the Santa Cruz Pacific Rim Festival. Manzanar is broadcast on Public Radio. Stephanie receives a Nathan Cummings Foundation grant for Manzanar in 2003.
2000/2003: Her multimedia solo piece, Jazz, Gender and Justice, receives a grant from the Cultural Affairs Department, City of Los Angeles. She performs the work at the California State University Northridge Performance Arts Center. Stephanie also performs music from that piece at Santa Monica College. From 2000 to 2003, she receives grants, produces, and performs at the Museum of Cultural Diversity in Carson, Ca.
1998/99: In Los Angeles, Stephanie writes, produces, and performs the one-woman shows The Liberated Chanteuse on women and cancer, and Intimate Illusions on love.
1980s: She writes Blue Heaven for the stage, and the radio play Moving On, both on aging, produced in New York.
1960s: Stephanie is a jazz performer (using Stephanie Glass) touring the U.S. and Canada.
Professor Emerita, Antioch University Los Angeles, on the faculty over 23 years and Chair of the Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies Program, she also produces theater for the campus including Squeeze Box and Marx in Soho. Among her academic writing is the essay, with C. Armon, Learning and the Good Life: Reconceiving Adult Education for Development, in Creativity, Spirituality and Transcendence, Ablex Publishing Co., 2000. She received Antioch University’s Distinguished Service Award.
Stephanie graduated UC Berkeley with a B.A., and later earned an M.S. at the University of Southern California while a Norman Topping Fellow. She then completed an M.A. from the New School for Social Research. She is Phi Beta Kappa.
See the website: https://stephaniesolomon.com/ for more on the artist.
2025
Stephanie is honored to have her photo of Freddie Mitchell who participated in the Selma Voting Rights demonstrations led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. included in the opening show of the renovated Selma Interpretive Center.
When: February 2025 at the Museum reopening. More information to follow.
Where: Selma Interpretive Center, Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail Museum,
Selma, Alabama
2024
Beyond the Personal
Four images of women and protest and the Foot Soldiers video will be exhibited in this group show that includes works by artists James Welling, Mary Kelly, Dorit Cypis and others. Stephanie’s Manifesto will help define the Artist Activist section.
When:
March 7, 2024 through April 25, 2024
Opening Reception on March 7, 2024
Where:
Cypress College Photo Gallery
TE-1, 230
9200 Valley View Street
Cypress, CA 90630
2023
Commemoration of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire for International Women’s History Month
Stephanie’s photos of Women in Protest were exhibited.
When: March 25, 2023
Where: The Worker’s Circle 1525 South Robertson Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
To learn more about the Triangle Fire and it’s legacy, please follow this link:
https://portside.org/2023-10-
Dedication
I dedicate this show to my grandma, Mollie Glass. She was a garment worker and member of the
International Garment Workers Union. At thirteen she, together with her brother and sister,
entered the U.S. through Ellis Island. They came alone from Russia and never saw their parents
again. The same year that Mollie immigrated, she started sewing in a factory in lower Manhattan.
The fire that took the lives of the Triangle girls could have happened in my grandma’s factory
given that the working conditions where she sewed were as appalling. She worked all her life as
a garment worker. I can still see her at her singer sewing machine in her small apartment, making
dresses and skirts for me, and clothes for my dolls. I deeply loved her.
In addition, having my images at the Workers Circle is especially meaningful as we are a union
family. My husband has been a lifelong member of the NABET-CWA, and my son and I have
often walked the picket lines. We stand with the unions.
2022
The 10th Annual International 2022 FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art
Stephanie’s updated video, Foot Soldiers for Justice, now including issues such as the “Big Lie” and threats to U.S. democracy, was selected for exhibition through a juried process. As part of her get-out-the-vote efforts, the video will be shown during the midterm elections, 2022.
When: October 3 to December 9, 2022
Where: The Reece Museum on the campus of East Tennessee State University,
363 Stout Dr, Johnson City, TN.
An invitation has been extended to all to attend the juror’s presentation at the Reece Museum from 5-6 p.m. and the awarding reception from 6-8 p.m., Thursday, November 3, 2022. If you live in the area, please come.
2020
Aging As Art 2020
Stephanie’s photo Alone Together in the Pandemic finished 2nd in the Aging As Art competition. Her image, titled Zdenka– Holocaust Survivor, was also chosen for exhibition. The award is by the Southern California Council on Aging. Photos were exhibited at John Wayne Airport, the Bowers Museum, and the Newport Beach Library in Southern California.
Stephanie Solomon
Stephanie Solomon
2018
Get Out the Vote: Foot Soldiers for Justice
This was an exhibit of 48 photos from the collection Foot Soldiers for Justice and a showing of the video.
When: October 1 – November 6, 2018
Where: Antioch University Los Angeles, 400 Corporate Point, Culver City, CA. 90230
Opening Reception: October 4, 5-7pm
Spoken & Unspoken, A National Art Exhibit
Images from Foot Soldiers were on exhibit in this juried show.
When: January 5 through February 4, 2018
Where: Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
The Woman’s Caucus for Art, “ART SPEAKS! Lend Your Voice
The video Foot Soldiers for Justice was shown. It was chosen from a national call and juried selection process.
When: Opening Reception: Thursday, February 22, 2018 during the 2018 National Conference of the Women’s Caucus for Art with Closing Reception March 10th, International Women’s Day.
Where: “ART SPEAKS! Lend Your Voice” exhibition, Arena 1 Gallery in Santa Monica, CA.
2017
US Department of the Interior National Historic Selma to Montgomery Trail Museums, New Galleries Opening Event
Eighteen images from the collection Foot Soldiers for Justice were on temporary exhibit. The work was part of the opening of two new galleries and permanent exhibits in the Historic Museum. Representative Terri Sewell and Selma Mayor Darrio Melton attended the opening, along with many of the Foot soldiers who crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965. Stephanie was honored to have been in attendance, as well. In the future, images from Foot Soldiers for Justice will travel the two other Historic Trail Museums in Montgomery and Lowndes County. Photos from the entire collection will be archived by the Museums for future generations.
When: February 23, 2017
Where: US Department of the Interior National Historic Selma to Montgomery Trail Museums, in Selma, AL. at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Black History Month
When: February 24, 2017
Where: Photos from the Foot Soldiers collection, along with the slideshow video, were displayed at Antioch University LA in Culver City, as part of their Get-Out-The-Vote efforts, and acknowledgment of Black History Month.
2016
“Three Rings and Two Parties; The Election Circus.”
The Foot Soldiers for Justice video was included in the political exhibit.
When: November 2 to December 7, 2016.
Where: The Wiseman Gallery, on the Rogue Community College campus, Grants Pass, Oregon.
Requests
A complete portfolio of the project Foot Soldiers for Justice is available upon request for appropriate venues, exhibition, and for print and online media. There are approximately 110 photos in this collection.
The narratives in the “Reflections” section may be used with my permission.
The video may be ordered for use during voting rights events and broader educational activities.
I am particularly interested in supporting persons, organizations, and movements promoting social justice, and those addressing voting issues such as voter suppression, registration, and civic education. As an Artist Activist, I would like to make the project available for a wide range of actions, so please contact me with your ideas.
Contact Information
Stephanie Glass Solomon
Stephanieglasssolomon@gmail.com
Deep gratitude and appreciation goes to:
- Dan Harmon for all his artistic support, editing, patience, and love. Without him none of this would be possible.
- Ana Osling, Web Design
- Reality Tours and Global Exchange, and to my travel companions in Selma, Andrea Lyman, Ann Pruden, Robert O’Sullivan, and especially Kirsten Moller, our guide and teacher.
- Dr. Andrea Lyman for her companionship on the D.C. trip.
- Audrey Mandelbaum, Curator
- Sam Harmon for his ongoing encouragement and help.
- Jimmy Aristizabal, Studio Assistant
- Susan Vogelfang
- Karen Schuler
- Nancy Hollander
- Dale Franzen
- Charlotte Hildebrand
- Antioch University Los Angeles, especially the Liberal Arts Program.
Contact
A complete portfolio of the project Foot Soldiers for Justice is available upon request for appropriate venues, exhibition, and for print and online media. There are approximately 200 photos in this collection.
The narratives in the “Reflections” section may be used with my permission.
The video may be ordered for use during voting rights events and broader educational activities.
I am particularly interested in supporting persons, organizations, and movements promoting social justice, and those addressing voting issues such as voter suppression, registration, and civic education, in particular. As an Artist Activist, I would like to make the project available for a wide range of actions, so please contact me with your ideas.