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"An unsettling pair of pink and purple fleshy globs on a sterile blue
examination table are among the first works to greet visitors upon entering the
new Brooklyn home of the Center for Art and Advocacy, a nonprofit that supports
artists affected by incarceration. Installed in the middle of the room, the
silicon sculptures “Slop (top)” (2017) and “Floater” (2016) were created by
Texas-based artist Courtney Cone, who participated in the organization’s Right
of Return (RoR) Fellowship for formerly incarcerated artists in 2019.
The installation, which investigates the bodily dehumanization experienced by
women and femme-presenting individuals in prisons, sits near a wall displaying
an orange gouache painting by New Mexico-based artist Sheri Crider, who
participated in RoR’s first cohort of fellows in 2017. Her work depicts a scene
from a drive through the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona, when she came across
a monument marking the 1886 capture of Chiricahua-Apache leader Geronimo.
These are just a couple of the dozens of visual artworks, written projects, and
films by over 35 RoR fellows in the inaugural exhibition of the Center for Art
and Advocacy, founded by formerly incarcerated artist Jesse Krimes.
Collective
Gestures: Building Community through Practice runs through September 20 at the
center’s new 2,600-square-foot programming space on the ground floor of a newly
built affordable housing complex in Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bed-Stuy).
Launched in 2022, the Center is a successor project and grant recipient of the
six-year Art for Justice Fund (A4J) — an initiative to end mass incarceration
established by philanthropist Agnes Gund and managed by the Ford Foundation and
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. (In 1973, New York Governor Norman
Rockefeller helped pass statutes known as the “Rockefeller Drug Laws,” which
mandated strict sentences for low-level, nonviolent drug sales and possession,
and led to increased incarceration rates in the state by the 1980s.)"
Via
Reasons to be Cheerful:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
