There Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down
Tennessee • Stacy Kranitz
From the 2021-2022 We, Women nationwide exhibit.
About the project
There Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down visualizes resistance and activism associated with the failures of rural healthcare in Appalachia by providing context and resources for how citizens can work together to solve problems associated with declining rural healthcare. Utilizing pamphlets as a medium, Stacy is partnering with local health organizations to address problems associated with declining rural healthcare, specifically dental care, black lung disease, medical debt, drug use and treatment, and the impact of hospital closures. America’s healthcare system is in crisis. Skyrocketing costs for patients, an accelerating work pace for nurses and other health care workers, and a tangle of private and public insurance bureaucracies throw up barriers to care for millions of people in the United States. At heart, what is strangling America’s healthcare system is that we still don’t count it among the human rights to which we’re all entitled. Instead, we view the health of our fellow citizens as another potential source of profit. The pamphlets are designed by Homie House Press: a radical cooperative platform that challenges the ever-changing forms of storytelling with imagery and text. All Illustrations are by Jen Iskow. She is an artist, designer, and musician living in Tucker County, West Virginia.
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The pamphlets are designed by Homie House Press: a radical cooperative platform that challenges the ever-changing forms of storytelling with imagery and text. All Illustrations are by Jen Iskow. She is an artist, designer, and musician living in Tucker County, West Virginia.
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About the Artist
Stacy Kranitz is an artist based in the eastern Tennessee Appalachian Mountains of the United States. Her work explores history, representation, and otherness within the documentary tradition. Poised between notions of what is right and what is wrong, she uses photography to open up narratives that confront our understanding of culture. Her work has been featured in Harper’s Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Times, TIME, Oxford American, and Rolling Stone. In 2021, her first monograph of photographs, As it was Give(n) to Me, will be published by Twin Palms. She is also a 2020 Guggenheim fellow.