Project DescriptionThis project explores the intersection of social justice and the arts in a 4-session interdisciplinary arts collaboration. Designed to explore race and incarceration as systemic injustice and the intersection of social justice and the arts, this program features guests with a history of incarceration and arts activism, including Halim Flowers, artist and social justice entrepreneur. Students will cultivate creativity through theatre, music, dance, visual arts, etc and learn how to use the arts as a powerful tool for storytelling, transformation, and healing. |
Why Race, Prison, Justice: Illuminating Story Through the Arts?In this challenging year, charged with multiple pandemics, we have felt the urgent need to open up dialogue and pathways to expression particularly around Race, Prison, and Justice. We are keenly aware from our lived experience working with both incarcerated and non-incarcerated student populations of the power of the arts to respond to crisis and injustice. We believe strongly in the unique and resonant power of the combo of arts and activism. We hope in this series to:
Whether thru poetry, dance, painting, theater, sculpture, graphic arts, music, spoken word, film etc. or from the many potent combinations that come from criss crossing these forms and creating new ones we want to dive in together create with you and enable you in the process. We hope to be in the business of planting seeds, and want to from the get go, encourage students to share the work they have created weekly in response to each class. We will culminate this experience through opening a virtual gallery and performance space to share the artistic work created through the project. Additionally, we hope to host a Forum in the month of April to gather together, appreciate work made, hear speakers, share thoughts, discoveries, and common ground around these creative experiences while we illuminate the stories of Race Prison and Justice. Project Partners and SupportersThis project is presented by Boston University's African American Studies Program, Arts Initiative, College of Fine Arts, the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground, Initiative on Cities, and the Office for Diversity and Inclusion. This is part of the Prison Arts Project of the College of Fine Arts. |
COURSE LEADERS
André de Quadros, Judy Braha, Krystal Morin, and Bradford Dumont
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