

The Writing on the Wall is organized by Rachel Nelson and Gina Dent in partnership with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History as part of Visualizing Abolition, a public scholarship initiative at UC Santa Cruz designed to shift the social attachment to prisons through art and education. As a presentation of the crisis of global criminal justice systems, these letters visually convey the narratives, thoughts, and emotions of the people behind bars. Dreisinger during her years teaching in US and international prisons. The writings were collected, with the authors’ permission, by Dr. The arrangement of the installation is based on measurements of cell blocks, providing a spatial context for visitors and immersing them in the words of the incarcerated. The installation’s design references the palimpsest-like writing on the walls of prison cells and layers these onto opaque and transparent acrylic panels arranged in modules. Fidler.Įmulating a prison cell, The Writing on the Wall at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) recreates these largely unseen spaces in a public sphere. He graduated from SCHOOL OF MEDICINE JUAN N.

Wilson Cruz Leal, MD is a family medicine specialist in Greenwood, AR and has over 28 years of experience in the medical field. Rachel Nelson, director of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences, and Dr. Wilson Cruz Leal, MD - Family Medicine Specialist in Greenwood, AR Healthgrades. Baz Dreisinger (who conceived the project together with her students at John Jay College and artist Hank Willis Thomas), Devon Simmons, and Matthew Wilson. How do you tell the history of a society in crisis? What does it mean to transform sites of injustice into spaces for art? Join us for a conversation about the relationship between museums and prisons, presented in conjunction with The Writing on the Wall and featuring Dr.
