Brenda Kenneally

Brenda Ann Kenneally is a mother, multi platform documentary maker, Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize Nominee whose lived experiences of incarceration in her youth have been the driving force behind her life’s work. Over the past thirty years Kenneally’s long form, immersive collaborations with families who live where social, economic, and emotional marginalization intersect with The America Criminal Justice Systems have produced visceral portraits of the landscape of inter generational inequity and trauma navigated by the most vulnerable among us.
Kenneally’s books Money Power Respect: Pictures of My Neighborhood Chanel Photographics 2004 and Upstate Girls: Unraveling Collar City Regan Arts, 2018 became the foundation for an array of  participatory public art projects in those communities. In 2017 Kenneally founded A Little Creative Class Inc. a 501c3 with mission to support young people from low wealth communities on their journey to discover artistic voice and authentic self. Kenneally is currently working on the second in a series of books with her extended community if Troy, New York. Grown Upstate, The Legacy of Love in Collar City engages with a third generation born of collaborators from the Upstate Girls 2004-2018 publication.
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