Title - Suzanne Lacy
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The Children's Car and Public Service Announcement
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Suzanne Lacy, Carol Kumada, with the assistance of Susanne Cockrell (Cleveland, 1994)

Women from Bedford Hills prison suggested that Lacy look more closely at the impact of family violence on the lives of children. At the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, a children's perspective car was created with the Center for the Prevention of Domestic Violence. Young children, mothers, and counselors were interviewed at the shelter/center, and in a series of workshops children were encouraged to explore their feelings through drawings. They drew scenes of their homes, neighborhoods, and family on the doors of cars displayed inside the museum; other drawings were translated onto the flat white surface of the inside and outside of a wrecked station wagon that was installed for a month outside the Center of Contemporary Art

During that year in a collaboration with David Katsive, video producer from Ruder Finn, and film producer Virginia Cotts, the Public Art Fund commissioned public service announcements featuring children from homes with domestic abuse. The PSAs have not been publicly aired.