“Life in Prison: Artists Bear Witness”

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“Life in Prison: Artists Bear Witness”

November 13 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

 

The Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University and OF NOTE, the award-winning arts & activism magazine, hosts a conversation with three dynamic artists who use their creative voice to examine the complex experiences, both personal and political, faced by the two million men, women, and youth currently imprisoned in the United States.

 

Via theatre, photography, and video, these artists, Samara Gaev, Russell Frederick, and Lori Waselchuk illuminate the ways in which our society treats those within our prison systems with compelling work that engages and troubles our notions of ‘justice.’

 

Hosts: Samuel Roberts, Ph.D., Director, IRAAS & Grace Aneiza Ali, Founder/Editorial Director, OF NOTE

 

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Carla Shedd 
Assistant Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies - See more at: http://www.iraas.com/node/3#sthash.IVkXa3au.dpuf

 

Carla Shedd 
Assistant Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies - See more at: http://www.iraas.com/node/3#sthash.IVkXa3au.dpuf

 

Carla Shedd 
Assistant Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies - See more at: http://www.iraas.com/node/3#sthash.IVkXa3au.dpuf

© Russell Frederick

 

Russell Frederick, Photographer
Russell Frederick is a self-taught, Brooklyn-born photographer of Panamanian heritage. He is the recipient of grants from the Open Society Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council and the Urban Artist Initiative Foundation. Frederick is a member of the African-American photo collective Kamoinge and is represented by KEYSTONE photo agency in Switzerland. As an educator, he dedicates time to mentoring at-risk young men with the Kings Against Violence Initiative as the Men’s Program Director.

 

 

 

© Truthworker Theatre

 

Samara Gaev, Founder of Truthworker Theatre
Samara Gaev is the founder and artistic director of Truthworker Theatre Company, a social justice based hip-hop theatre company for high school and college-aged youth in NYC. Its recent original productions include “BAR CODE,” a performative analysis of the school to prison pipeline, and “IN|PRISM: Boxed In & Blacked Out in America,” which examines the practice of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons.

 

 

 

© Lori Waselchuk

 

Lori Waselchuk, Photographer
Lori Waselchuk is a Philadelphia-based visual storyteller. Her award-winning photographic documentary “Grace Before Dying,” which chronicles the prisoner-run hospice program at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, in Angola, LA, aims to challenge stereotypes about people that are imprisoned and offers a compassionate perspective into an environment designed to isolate and punish.

 

 

 

Grace Aneiza Ali, Founder & Editorial Director, OF NOTE

 

Under her leadership, OF NOTE, the award-winning online magazine focused on arts and activism, received the Images and Voices of Hope (IVOH) Media Award fro “Outstanding media project that shows a commitment to constructive change.” Grace is also a faculty member in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (City College, CUNY) and a current Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellow.

 

Grace Aneiza Ali, Founder and Editorial Director of OF NOTE Magazine
The founder and editorial director of OF NOTE, one of the first online magazines focused on global artists using the arts as catalysts for activism and social change. In 2014, she received the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellowship in partnership with Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art for the upcoming exhibition, “Guyana Modern,” which will feature a new generation of photographers from Guyana and its major diasporic communities in New York, London and Toronto. She’s an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at The City College of New York, CUNY and the recipient of the “Outstanding Faculty of the Year” award for 2013-2014. Grace is also World Economic Forum Global Shaper and a Fulbright Scholar. - See more at: http://iraas.com/node/378%22#sthash.h4qz2RXp.B6TTaJCt.dpufGrace Aneiza Ali is the founder and editorial director of OF NOTE, the award-winning online magazine focused on global artists using the arts as catalysts for activism and social change. In 2014, OF NOTE received the Images and Voices of Hope (IVOH) Media Award, for “Outstanding media project that shows a commitment to constructive change.” Grace is also a faculty member in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at The City College of New York, CUNY and a current Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatoria

Samuel K. Roberts, Moderator
Columbia University, Director, Institute for Research in African American Studies
Associate Professor of History & Sociomedical Sciences

Details

Date:
November 13
Time:
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Venue

MIST Harlem
46 W 116th St, New York, NY 10026 United States

Organizer

OF NOTE magazine