Overture Center For The Arts, 201 State Street, Madison, 6-9 P.M.
Wisconsin has the highest rate of incarceration of people of color than any state in the country. When they or any person returns to their community after the trauma of incarceration, they are more often stigmatized than embraced, vulnerable to revocation for non-criminal acts, and locked out of opportunity such as adequate housing and life sustaining work.
Faces of Incarceration aims to reverse the stigma imposed on these individuals by showing that many emerge to live lives of dignity and extreme purpose.
In a world that often overlooks these individuals, the artists of Atwood Atelier spent hours carefully observing their features and recreating them on canvas. By inviting them into the studio and getting to know them, they forged a connection face to face. And by displaying their portraits, we invite the public to truly see them; to understand them as individuals who deserve respect and compassion.
At 8pm on the Rotunda Stage, join a panel discussion with formerly incarcerated participants and criminal justice reform experts, and listen to poetry from prison. Presenters include: Judge Everett Mitchell (Circuit Court Judge), Rudy Bankston (MMSD/Edgewood College), Jerome Dillard (EXPO), Caliph Muab’el (Focused Interruption Coalition), James Morgan (MOSES), Carmella Glenn (Just Bakery), Melissa Ludin (EXPO) and Adrian Molitor (poet).
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