Barring Freedom uses art to engage people in different ways, so they can see the dynamics of racism.
Keith Calhoun
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Making Art Against the Backdrop of Incarceration
In a year of perpetual change, Marking Time demonstrates the urgent need for a shift in culture, one where crisis need not be the charge for moving towards a better world.
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Making American Labor Visible Again
Though officially outlawed in 1865, the de facto continuation of slavery remains a repulsive American secret.
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Stark Photos of a Louisiana Prison that Was Once a Slave Plantation
Two photographers document the lives of incarcerated men at Angola, a former slave plantation that is now the largest maximum-security prison farm in the US.
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Art Behind Bars Provides a Key to Prospect New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — Biennials, triennials, and other, similarly grand periodic art exhibitions are a funny thing; both local and global, they must balance an engagement with their home places alongside a broader artistic conversation.