21st Annual Exhibition Events
Humanize the Numbers Lecture and Workshop Series
Spring Exhibits
Wednesday, March 23
Tuesday, March 15
February 18 - April 8
21st Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners Opening Events
“By the Light of Other Suns: Making Art in Prison,” Janie Paul
Humanize the Numbers
10am Gallery Opens
6pm Sales Begin
7pm Opening Reception
@ Duderstadt Gallery
Reception with guest speakers from University of Michigan, Michigan Department
of Corrections, and formerly incarcerated artists.
12:30pm @ Osterman Common Room, Institute for Humanities
Residential College Art Gallery, East Quadrangle
701 E. University Ave., Ann Arbor
Sunday, April 3
Family Day at the Exhibition
PCAP celebrates the family and friends of incarcerated artists and writers at our annual
Family Day.
11am - 12:30pm Artist Panel @ Duderstadt Gallery
Artists from previous Prison Creative Arts Project exhibitions share their stories and
answer questions about life as a prison artist in this informal panel discussion.
Elephant on a Tightrope, Free Ray Gray
3 - 5pm Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Reading
@ Auditorium, Stamps School of Art & Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor)
Hear selections from this year’s journal read by friends and family of contributing
authors. Books will be available for sale.
21 st ANNUAL
Exhibition of
Art by Michigan
Prisoners
Monday, April 4
Mark Strandquist
5:30 - 7pm @ Duderstadt Gallery
Isaac Wingfield and Mark Strandquist discuss their community photography
projects, facilitating photographic collaborations on issues of incarceration, both
inside and outside of prisons.
Tuesday, April 5
Coming Home Panel
6 - 7:30pm
March 23- April 6, 2016
@ Duderstadt Gallery
Panelists will discuss the challenges, successes and support systems of those who
transition from prison into our community.
Wednesday, April 6
Duderstadt Center Gallery
University of Michigan North Campus
2281 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI
Gallery Hours:
Sunday-Monday: 12pm-6pm
Tuesday-Saturday: 10am-7pm
Closed Sunday, March 27
Exhibition and events free and open to the public.
For more information:
www.prisonarts.org
pcapinfo@umich.edu
734 - 647 - 6771
SPONSORS
LSA Residential College; LSA Department of English Language and Literature;
Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design; School of Music, Theatre & Dance;
LSA Institute for Humanities
21st Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners Closing Events
Janie Paul is an artist and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of
Michigan Stamps School of Art and Design. She co-founded the Annual Exhibition
of Art by Michigan Prisoners and continues as Senior Curator of the exhibit.
Tuesday, March 22
“Bearing Light and Time: Prison Photography and the Abject Sentimentality
of Incarcerated Motherhood,” Ruby Tapia
12:30pm @ Osterman Common Room, Institute for Humanities
Ruby C. Tapia is Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies and Director
of Undergraduate Studies in Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. Her
teaching and research engages the intersection of photography theory, feminist
and critical race theory, and critical prison studies.
Osterman Common Room, Institute for Humanities
202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor
12:30pm @ Osterman Common Room, Institute for Humanities
Dr. Heather Ann Thompson is Professor of History in the Department of Afro-Amer
ican and African Studies, the Residential College, and the Department of History at
the University of Michigan. She writes about the history as well as current crises of
mass incarceration for numerous popular and scholarly
publications.
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Presented as part of the Humanize the Numbers collaboration with the LSA
Institute for Humanities and visiting photographer and activist Mark Strandquist.
A Wall in Process incorporates art, artifact, data, image, and text, with input from
activist groups, undergrad classes, artists, and nonprofits, in an attempt to
humanize the countless individuals and their unique and collective experiences
within the Michigan prison system. This exhibit is accompanied by a lecture and
workshop series.
March 14 - March 26
Wednesday, March 30
Conversations with Pictures from a Drawer
“Theatre in Prisons Around the World: A Lecture and Interactive Workshop,”
Ashley Lucas
McGregor Commons, School of Social Work
1080 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor
6:30 - 8:30pm @ Osterman Common Room, Institute for Humanities
This exhibition stages several dialogues between current U-M students and
formerly incarcerated individuals about the prisoner identification photographs
included in Bruce Jackson’s 2009 publication Pictures From a Drawer: Prison and
the Art of Portraiture . The exhibition records these critical engagements as a
Ashley Lucas is Associate Professor of Theatre & Drama and the Residential College
at the University of Michigan, where she also serves as the Director of the Prison
Creative Arts Project. Ashley will discuss the theatre practices she has witnessed
during her research in prisons in the U.S., the U.K., Ireland, Canada, South Africa,
Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand.
understandings of how, what, and whom we see in the images and texts that
picture the prison and its subjects.
Tuesday, April 5
“Using Art to Disrupt the Criminal Justice System,” Mark Strandquist
Thursday, April 7
Wednesday, April 6
Artwork Pickup
“Good Neighbor Project: Mentorship Through Correspondence”
10am - 7pm @ Duderstadt Gallery
6:30 - 8:30pm @ Osterman Common Room, Institute for Humanities
Please bring your receipt as proof of purchase. Volunteers will be available to help
locate and package your artwork. Artwork selected for the Award Winners and
Selected Work exhibit will be available in June.
The Criminal Justice Program at American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in
Ypsilanti presents its co-mentorship program, The Good Neighbor Project. This
project is designed to shift public discussion and discourse on punishment in
Michigan.
4pm @ Annenberg Auditorium, Ford School of Public Policy
(735 S. State St., Ann Arbor)
Marie Gottschalk examines why the carceral state, with its growing number of
outcasts, remains so tenacious in the United States. This event is co-hosted by
Citizens Alliance on Prisons & Public Spending and the Ford School of Public Policy
with support from Action for America.
A Wall in Process
“From Carceral Crisis to Decarceration: Why we must Humanize the
Numbers,” Heather Thompson
12:30pm @ Osterman Common Room, Institute for Humanities
"Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics," Marie
Gottschalk
March 7 - April 28
Tuesday, March 29
5pm Exhibition Closes
5 - 8pm Artwork Pickup @ Duderstadt Gallery
Please bring your receipt as proof of purchase. Volunteers will be available to help
locate and package your artwork. Artwork selected for the Award Winners and
Selected Work exhibit will be available in June.
Wednesday, April 13
An exhibition of collaborative photography, completed by a group of men
incarcerated at Thumb Correctional Facility (Lapeer, MI) and students at the
University of Michigan. The title of the exhibition originated in a PCAP workshop at
Thumb Correctional Facility, and speaks to the intention of the exhibition to
confront the overwhelming numbers of mass incarceration with individual human
stories through photographs.
Mark Strandquist is an artist, activist, and educator who has spent years using art
as a vehicle for connecting diverse communities to build empathy and support for
social justice movements. At the core of his practice is the belief that those most
impacted by a given issue are the experts society needs to listen.
March 23 - April 6
21st Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Duderstadt Center Gallery
2281 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI
This annual exhibition, featuring work by over 250 artists incarcerated in Michigan
Department of Corrections facilities, provides a venue for visitors to engage with
proceeds going to the artists. Artists were invited to respond to the theme of water
- thinking about the ways in which water is essential to life on Earth, its role in
human health, in the global economy, and how water is used in cultural traditions
around the world.
May 6 - 28
Wednesday, April 13
Award Winners and Selected Work from the 21st Annual Exhibition of Art by
Michigan Prisoners
Treatment,” Theadra Fleming and Heather Martin
University of Michigan Detroit Center Gallery
3663 Woodward Ave. Detroit, MI 48201
6:30 - 8:30pm @ Osterman Common Room, Institute for Humanities
Young women in treatment join Theadra Fleming, retired Registered Nurse and
master quilter, and Heather Martin, LLMSW and arts facilitator, in sharing their
experience in quilting and building an arts practice together.
Selected work from the 21st Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners will be
closer look at some of the most interesting pieces from this year's exhibit.
Tuesday, April 19
Saturday, May 21
"U-M and Mass Incarceration," Richard Meisler
Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Reading
12:30pm @ Osterman Common Room, Institute for Humanities
3 - 5pm @ Ann Arbor Room, University of Michigan Detroit Center (3663
Woodward Ave., Detroit)
Hear selections from this year’s journal read by friends and family of contributing
authors. Books will be available for sale.
In the 1980s, Richard Meisler taught courses for Washtenaw Community College in
the Huron Valley Women’s facility. After leaving to work at the University of
Michigan, he arranged for three of the women, who were still behind bars, to study
at the University.
www.humanizethenumbers.com