Carving Out Rights
@ Prison and Neighborhood Arts/Education Project
Online
Opening Thursday, February 25th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
**REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/carving-out-rights-book-launch-tickets-139697911213
Join the Human Rights Lab for the launch of Carving Out Rights from Inside the Prison Industrial Complex (Hat & Beard, 2021). This Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project book features 30 brilliantly crafted foam block prints—one for each article in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—made by artists at Stateville Prison, who struggle daily for their own human rights. Collectively the prints reject the conditional rights and dehumanization perpetuated by the carceral state and claim the dignity of universal inalienable rights.
Editors and contributors to the book will discuss what it means to represent justice and carve out rights from inside the prison industrial complex.
Panelists:
Renaldo Hudson (Education Director, Illinois Prison Project)
Aaron Hughes (Teaching Artist, Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project)
Alice Kim (Director of Human Rights Practice, Pozen Center Human Rights Lab)
Barbara Ransby (Director, Social Justice Initiative, University of Illinois-Chicago)
Moderator:
Tempestt Hazel (Co-founder, Sixty Inches From Center)
Presented in partnership with the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture; the Mass Incarceration Working Group; and the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project.
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