Symposium: “BRIDGES: WALLS TURNED SIDEWAYS” March 6th Program
6 March, Friday
10 AM: Curator Tour with Risa Puleo, Walls Turned Sideways exhibition
11 AM: Support Structures for Reentry: Artist / Activist Approaches panel discussion with Hilary Binda, Jeffrey Rafael and Reentry Think Tank (Mark Strandquist, Courtney Bowles & Faith Bartley)
12:30 PM: Lunch and Tufts University Prison Initiative of Tisch College Info session
1:30 PM: Bringing Experiences of Incarceration to the Classroom: Experiential and Experimental Education with Mary Patten, Sherrill Roland, Kimberly Dong, and Risa Puleo
More Information about the Panels:
Support Structures for Reentry: Artist / Activist Approaches: This conversation will engage support structures for those experiencing reentry, including cultural activities, education and advocacy. They believe that those directly impacted by the criminal justice system are the experts that society needs to hear from most. The Reentry Think Tank, based in Philadelphia, connects returning citizens with artists and advocates to transform the stereotypes, social services, and platforms that impact our lives and communities; Jeffrey Rafael, Justice fellow with TUPIT, which brings Tufts faculty and students together with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, corrections staff, educators, and scholars of criminal justice to facilitate creative and collaborative responses to the problems of mass incarceration; and Hilary Binda, Founding Director of the Tufts University Prison Initiative of Tisch College, Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Senior Lecturer in Visual and Material Studies.
Tufts University Prison Initiative of Tisch College Info session
GET INVOLVED: TUPIT Information Session for anyone considering getting involved in TUPIT or Petey Greene as a faculty member, TA, or member of the new reentry navigators organization working on a variety of initiatives.
Bringing Experiences of Incarceration to the Classroom: Experiential and Experimental Education: This conversation will focus on how to bring experiences of incarceration into the classroom in experimental forms, featuring Mary Patten, exhibiting artist and member of Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, instrumental in passing the nation’s first Reparations Ordinance and included implementing a curriculum in Chicago’s middle and high schools; Sherrill Roland, exhibiting artist, who spent nearly one year in a D.C. prison for a crime he did not commit before being exonerated of all charges in 2015, returned to art school and developed The Jumpsuit Project, a performative project which encourages viewers to address their own prejudices towards those who have been incarcerated; Kimberly Dong, faculty at Tufts University School of Medicine, who’s current projects explore health disparities and causes and consequences of food insecurity in adults on probation; and Risa Puleo, curator of Walls Turned Sideways and independent curator and critic.
This symposium is produced in collaboration with Tufts University Prison Initiative of Tisch College of Civic Life and it is presented with support from the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University and Tufts University School of Arts & Sciences and School of Engineering Diversity Fund.
For more information, see the website of the Tufts University Galleries.