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print this pageUnit 2: Art, Education, and Photography on Death Row
Robin Paris (Moderator), Lisa Guenther, Sharon Stewart, and Tom Williams
Saturday, October 04 - 9:00AM to 10:00AM
STU 224
Robin Paris, associate professor and chair, photography department, Watkins College of Art, Design and Film
Tom Williams, assistant professor of art history, Watkins College of Art, Design and Film
Lisa Guenther, associate professor of philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Sharon Stewart, senior, BFA candidate in photography, Watkins College of Art, Design and Film
This panel addresses an ongoing artistic collaboration between 15 prisoners on Unit 2 (i.e., Death Row) at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution and local artists, including faculty and students from several colleges and universities. The panel will discuss the collaborations, which began during the summer of 2013, that have resulted in a wide range of works and a number of exhibitions in the Nashville area. Each of these exhibitions has offered glimpses into the life experiences of people who are typically defined by their trials and by the institutions that imprison them, and the works displayed have made the voices of prisoners condemned to death audible to the outside world. This work all showcases an unlikely dialogue across the walls of prison, one that aspires to address the complex and forbidding realities of incarceration and death.
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