Prison Museums as Sites of Conscience with Sean Kelley from the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site

Sean Kelley has run all public programming at Eastern State Penitentiary since 1995, when he was hired as the organization's first full-time employee. He produced the site's award-winning audio tour, now heard by more than a million visitors. He has curated more than 100 site-specific artist installations at the site, and curated the exhibit Prisons Today: Questions in the Age of Mass Incarceration which won the 2017 Overall Award for Excellence from the American Alliance of Museums. From 2017 to 2019 he oversaw "Hidden Lives Illuminated," a project which resulted in 20 original films made by currently incarcerated individuals and projected them for a month onto Eastern State Penitentiary's façade.