A History of Art And The Prison Industrial Complex
Saturday, April 15, session 3
3:00 - 4:30 PM PST
The Art and the History of the Prison Industrial Complex workshop will provide participants with a unique opportunity to learn about the history of visual and written art within the prison industrial complex (PIC), how to incorporate art into the fight for the end of mass incarceration, and ways to artfully engage their audience in organizing. Through this workshop, participants can connect with the lived experiences of impacted people and understand the power art possesses in the fight to end mass incarceration. The workshop will begin in a large group and then break into two sections, one with interactive written art, and one with interactive visual art. Participants will get the chance to actively engage in the creation of art, further immersing themselves within the power of expression and its potential to create positive change within the legal sphere and across communities.
KB Brookins
KB Brookins is a Black, queer, and trans writer, cultural worker, and artist from Texas. Their chapbook How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022) won the Saguaro Poetry Prize and was named an ALA Stonewall Honor Book in Literature. KB’s writing is published in Poets.org, HuffPost, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. They have earned fellowships from PEN America and Lambda Literary among others. KB has two forthcoming books, Freedom House (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2023) and Pretty (Alfred A. Knopf, 2024). They are a 2023 National Endowment of the Arts fellow. Follow KB online at @earthtokb.