Finding Hope Within features art that has emerged through the Carceral system. It combines art made by incarcerated artists in facilities in Vermont,—from poetry and other writings to visual art and sculptural pieces—and art made collaboratively between incarcerated artists with non-incarcerated artists on the outside.
A Revolutionary Press and Vermont Works for Women in collaboration with the artists and poets at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility
Finding Hope Withinfeatures art that has emerged through the carceral system in Vermont. The work featured in this exhibition includes drawings, mixed media, poetry and narrative writing by incarcerated artists at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington
In her book Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, Nicole Fleetwood writes, “Prison art is part of the long history of captive people envisioning freedom—creating art, imagining worlds, and finding ways to resist and survive.”
Blue Alchemy was inspired by the Lake Champlain watershed. The exhibit and associated programming build connections between the public and the watershed in new ways.
Blue Alchemy was inspired by the Lake Champlain watershed. The exhibit and associated programming build connections between the public and the watershed in new ways.