Events


Making Art in Prison: Survival and Resistance with artist and author Janie Paul
Oct
22

Making Art in Prison: Survival and Resistance with artist and author Janie Paul

Janie Paul, co-founder of the Annual Exhibitions of Artists in Michigan Prisons, a project of the Prison Creative Arts Project, along with formerly incarcerated artists will discuss the significance of making visual art in prison in connection with Paul’s recently published book, Making Art in Prison: Survival and Resistance.

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Exhibition - Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan
Apr
17
to Sep 4

Exhibition - Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan

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This exhibition was co-curated at MOCAD by Janie Paul and Steven Bridges, acting director of the Eli & Edythe Broad Museum. Janie will offer a reading of her book at the museum on May 18th.

MOCAD is proud to partner with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum and the Michigan Justice Fund to present the timely exhibition, Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan. Making art can be a transformative experience helping us to confront and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. Art shifts how we see and understand the world around and within us. Free Your Mind invites us to consider these qualities of art while also grappling with the effects of the carceral system. The presentation of this exhibition in Detroit is especially crucial considering the construction of the new Wayne County jail.

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