Faces of Incarceration: Changing the Narrative
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Overture Center-Playhouse Gallery 201 State St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
press release:
JUL 13 – AUG 27, 2017: These portraits honor and humanize the people impacted by Wisconsin’s flawed criminal justice system. Artists of the Atwood Atelier and project organizer Pat Dillon collaborate in these stories and portraits painted from life. Faces of Incarceration aims to contribute to current conversations about race, justice, and inequity.
This summer Overture Galleries will host a series of events investigating the American prison industry.
13th Movie Screening | WED, JUL 19, 6:30 PM
Reception and Panel Discussion: SAT, JULY 22, 6-9 PM, PLAYHOUSE GALLERY: At 8 PM on the Rotunda Stage, join a panel discussion with formerly incarcerated participants and criminal justice reform experts, and listen to poetry from prison. Presenters include: Judge Everett Mitchell (Circuit Court Judge), Jerome Dillard (EXPO), Caliph Muab’el (Focused Interruption Coalition), James Morgan (MOSES), Carmella Glenn (Just Bakery), Melissa Ludin (EXPO) and Rudy Bankston (MMSD/Edgewood College) and Adrian Molitor (poet)
Captured: Panel Discussion | WED, JUL 26, 6:30 PM: A panel discussion on youth incarceration and juvenile justice reform in Dane County, Wisconsin.
Dane County simultaneously carries a reputation as the best place to raise children, and the worst place to raise children depending upon the color of one’s skin. As a case in point, the Dane County Juvenile Detention Center comprises 80% youth of color, despite being only 28% of the overall population. How did this happen? And why does it continue to persist? Find out in this engaging panel discussion hosted by Justified Art! and GSAFE, featuring representatives from local government, schools, non-profit organizations, and the community.
Milwaukee 53206 Movie Screening | THU AUG 24, 6 PM