Event Listing - Galleries
Wed Feb 20 - Sat Mar 29

Gallery at Intersection presents

The Prison Project

A group exhibition looking at the California prison system featuring work from both inside and outside


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Location
Date and Time
Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA 94103 map
district: Mission

Wed Feb 20 (12 - 6pm) - Opening reception 6 - 9pm
Thu Feb 21 (12 - 6pm)
Fri Feb 22 (12 - 6pm)
Sat Feb 23 (12 - 6pm)
Wed Feb 27 (12 - 6pm)

Description
Living in California, chances are you live within miles of a prison. In the past two decades, close to twenty prisons have been built within the state. This group exhibition takes a broad and varied look at how the California Prison system affects us all on a social, environmental, economic, and human level. Combining information gathered from months of research and from our Prison Project Community Advisory Network, this exhibition features new work from a number of Bay Area artists in sculpture, video, photography, graphic design, and installation, and work from the inside. This project runs concurrently with an exhibition at the Fine Arts Gallery at San Francisco State University - CRIMINAL: Art and Criminal Justice in America (February 16 through March 15, 2008).

Featured artists include Arthur Huang & Sonia McKenna, Richard Kamler, Mabel Negrete, William Noguera, Plain Human, Robert Stansbury, Sara Thustra, Kelly Beile & Emily Wright and work from a number of organizations, including The Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival, The AOUON Archive, Mutual Aid Pen Pal Project, The Imagine Bus Project, San Francisco Art Institute City Studio, San Quentin’s Arts-in-Corrections Program, and The William James Association.