[Bookstoprisoners] Janie Paul at UIUC

[andi brandon]

Two events by Janie Paul, Assistant Professor and
Director of Community Relations at the University of
Michigan School of Art and Design:

"Art, Activism, and the Fight Against the Prison
Industrial Complex" 

A talk by Janie Paul
Monday, November 7 
7:00pm
South Rec Room of Allen Hall
1005 W. Gregory, Urbana

Janie Paul is Assistant Professor and Director of
Community Relations at the University of Michigan
School of Art and Design. For the past ten years she
has co-curated an annual exhibit of art made by
prisoners in Michigan; working in conjunction with the
Prison Creative Arts Project, she has taught in
prisons across the state. She is one of the founders
of Detroit Connections, a project bringing art and art
education to inner-city public schools, where young
people learn to make community-based art while
building political consciousness. In addition to these
projects, Paul is a renowned artist who has shown her
work in solo and group exhibits across the nation.

Entitled "Art, Activism, and the Fight Against the
Prison Industrial Complex," Paul will show slides of
work made by Michigan prisoners and will talk about
her artistic, pedagogical, and political work with the
Prison Creative Arts Project, one the nation's largest
and most successful groups mobilizing art against the
prison industrial complex. Thus merging art and
activism, this will be an inspiring call to action and
a celebration of the fight for social justice.


“Belief, Wonder, and the Open Secrets of Nature” 

Art Show by Janie Paul  
Opening with remarks by the artist
Tuesday, November 8
7:00-9:00pm
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
805 W. Pennsylvania 

Merging her acclaimed "River" series, a collection of
silicone intaglio prints meditating on Henry David
Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,
and recent oil paintings, charcoal sketches, and
multi-media works contemplating the aesthetics of
wonder, Janie Paul's "Belief, Wonder, and the Open
Secrets of Nature" asks viewers to think about the
histories of the nature, our means of representing our
interactions with natures, and the ways we use
different conceptions of nature to construct beliefs
that justify our daily existence. Unabashedly
gorgeous, deeply historical, and slyly political,
these works invite readers to wade into some of the
most pressing issues of postmodernist art production
while also revelling in the sheer beauty of works that
recall the splendor of the luminists.




		
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