Making Art in Prison: Survival and Resistance. Presenter Janie Paul
Friday, April 29 6:30-8:00 pm: a ZOOM Program
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This talk, accompanied by a power point presentation of artists’ work, will explain how incarcerated people keep their humanity alive within an inhumane environment; how the resistance to this environment takes the form of creating meaning and purpose; and how non-artists become artists and share their knowledge with others.
Janie Paul is an artist and the co-founder and senior curator of the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is a Professor Emerita at the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan where she taught classes that brought students into prisons to facilitate art workshops, as well as studio art classes. During her career, she was a recipient of the University Diversity Award and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship. Her forthcoming book, Making Art in Prison: Survival and Resistance, will be published in the fall of 2022 by Hat and Beard Press.
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