Jjenna Hupp Andrews
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Suffer the little children…

"Suffer the little children..." started as a series of portraits of Syrian, Yemeni, Iraqi, Palestinian, and refugee children who are growing up in war-torn countries. In the beginning of the series, I chose to focus on those children who are living in this hell, though there are those who have been killed that I feel compelled to record their likeness, such as Abdul-Hamid Alyousef's twin son and daughter who, along with 11 other members of his family, including his wife, were killed in Bashar al-Assad's chemical attack on his own people on April 4, 2017.

This series of drawings evolved into an ongoing series of sculpture and installation, which confronts the viewers with children living in precarious situations, situations created by our/human action (or inaction). Suffer the little Children: Border Crossings depicts a migrant/asylum-seeking child on our own border, in a dog kennel. The faceless child is the “face” of all the children who are housed within large, fenced pens and concentration camps, with only a mylar emergency blanket for “comfort” and “warmth.”

Suffer the little Children: War depicts a Muslim girl sitting in the bombed ruins of her home. She wears a Russian gas mask, which has been “embroidered” to reference the Syrian/Aleppo tradition of tone-on-tone embroidery. She wears a mask to protect her from chemical attacks that have become a weapon of her own government. The Russian gas mask and the U.S. army helmet she holds references two of the major players in the Syrian “civil” war as well as other “civil wars” (Yemen, Iraq, Palestine/Israel, etc…) in the Middle East. She is a child of our world, and the collateral damage of ongoing war beyond her control.
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Suffer the little Children: Guns is a figure created by a bulletproof hoodie, sweats, & shorts (ballistics fabric) slouched in a school desk w/notepad, Arizona Tea, & Skittles on the desk. The youth is both present and absent, in that the figure is implied by the clothes, but the clothes are empty. The children who are being murdered in school shootings quickly become just more numbers, their specific names and identities quickly fading away in our collective societal conscious, yet the absence is very much felt in the communities. This installation addresses gun violence, specifically school shootings, but also the larger issue of race in our society, where the killing of Black boys/men is rampant. The hoodie and skittles quickly became a symbol of this violence after the murder of Travon Martin, symbols I am using here to make real the gun violence that effects our children, both inside and outside the school classroom.

  • Home
    • Contact
  • Artwork
    • Current Work >
      • Invisibility is a Superpower
    • Dad, Disappearing
    • Pieta, Gaia
    • Victory of St Wilgefortis, St of Non-Binary & Trans People
    • Creativity in the Time of Covid 19
    • Suffer the little children series >
      • Suffer the Little Children...
      • Suffer the little children, COVID-19 Portrait Series
      • Suffer the little children... War/Refugee Portrait Series
      • Postcards from the forgotten edge of forever
    • SAY HER/HIS/THEIR NAME
    • Selected Artwork
    • Exhibitions >
      • Forms and Figures - 2025
      • Muskegon Museum of Art’s 95th Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition
      • SAC's Upcycle Art in the Park - 2025
      • BBAC Michigan Fine Arts Competition -2024
      • Fiber Art Now - Excellence In Fibers IX
      • Fiber Art Now - Fiber Reimagined II - 2024
      • Creativity in the Time of Covid-19
      • Of Revolutions, Revelations, Resolutions (and of those left forgotten in between)
      • Mott Art Faculty Exhibition -GFAC
      • The 19th Amendment at 100
      • STATUS 2019
      • Flint City Artists 2019
      • Flint: More than Just Water, and Exhibition
      • ArtPATH Lansing 2018
      • Lifeblood
      • Artists Treading Water
      • Nomadic Boarderlands
      • Second Skin
      • All They Survey
      • Liminal
      • Touching Life
      • intervals…interfaces…interstices
  • Teaching
    • Teaching Philosophy >
      • Teaching Philosophy Essay
    • Courses >
      • Course Descriptions
    • Student Artwork >
      • Drawing 1
      • Two-Dimensional Design
      • Three-Dimensional Design
      • Sculpture
      • In the Studio
    • Professional Development
  • Publications
    • Published Exhibitions
    • Books >
      • Flint Water Crisis
      • Lost In Media
      • Dissertation
    • Articles
    • Presentations >
      • Inclusive Language in the Remote Learning Environment
      • The Water Within LAND Conference 2-7-19
      • Facing College: Engaging International and Immigrant Students through a Collaborative Interdisciplinary Storytelling Project.
      • Seek & Find: Connections
      • Contemporary Artists as Stewardship
      • Act! Do Something
      • Wangechi Mutu
      • Ask me Why I'm RAD
      • Exploring ‘My Place(s) in this World’
      • Watching a Revolution
    • Speaking Engagements >
      • Featured Artist Talk - Creativity in the Time of Covid-19
      • Multiple Identities, Two Cultures, One Voice: The Art & Activism of Contemporary Afro-Latina & Afro-Latinx-Q Artists
      • Don't tell me what to do: Creative Careers Vol. 1
      • The Aesthetic Lens: Engaging Sociopolitical Injustice Through Art
      • Artists Treading Water
      • Social Justice Speaker in Residence
    • Press >
      • Student Project
      • Donor Mural
    • CV
  • Blog