States of Incarceration Exhibit

States of Incarceration is the first national traveling multi-media exhibition on the history and future of mass incarceration in the United States developed by faculty and students at twenty different universities across the country and designed by the Brooklyn-based architecture firm Matter Practice with graphic designers Pure+Applied. The exhibition will travel from April 2016 – October 2018.

Brown University’s contribution to this traveling exhibition came out of History Professor Amy Remensnyder’s “Locked Up: A History of Prison and Captivity,” taught both at Brown and at the Adult Correctional Institution in Cranston in the fall of 2015. A group of on-campus students in this class developed the panels Brown submitted. The exhibition comprises close to twenty panels on incarceration; personal stories historical context, and reveal the human face of this national trauma.

In addition to the States of Incarceration panels, the Rhode Island exhibition includes local artwork including a collection of paintings and a series of screen-printed T-shirts made by youth in the Rhode Island Training School and by Providence youth artists contributed by AS220. Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education (RISE) portraits of the students who have/had an incarerated parent (photographer: Peter Goldberg). Denali Tiller’s selection of powerful film stills from her documentary, Sons and Daughters, following the lives of children in Rhode Island with incarcerated parents, artwork by Jordan Seaberry, and a selection writing from literary magazines produced in the 1980s by female inmates at the Department of Corrections’ Women’s Facilities under the direction of long-time warden Roberta Richman.

For more information, visit
www.brown.edu/statesofincarceration
be a part of the conversation about the issues raised by this exhibition on Twitter at #StatesofIncarceration.

All events are free and open to the public.