New exhibition showcases art, voices and faces of those behind prison walls
“C/O! / I need a med-tech / I can’t taste or smell,” Jimmie Moody’s poem starts with a plea. “Yelled throughout the cellhouse / But nobody coming.”
Moody’s “Untitled,” one of many pieces brought together by curator Michelle Daniel Jones, is currently on display in the art exhibition “Makes Me Wanna Holla: Art, Death & Imprisonment.”
Open through Sept. 10 at the Logan Center for the Arts, the exhibition explores the injustices of the carceral system through the voices and art of those who have experienced them firsthand.
The exhibition culminates a yearlong “Artist for the People” Practitioner fellowship for Daniel Jones and artist Dorothy Burge, co-hosted by UChicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) and the Pozen Center Human Rights Lab.
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