January 2016
Opening Reception and Gallery Talk
Curator and Prison Photography editor Pete Brook will speak about the work on display in Prison Obscura. The exhibition features prison non-traditional imagery – surveillance, code, vernacular, workshop photography. Pete Brook, originally from Lancashire, England, lives in San Francisco, CA and works as a freelance writer and curator. *Update* Prison Obscura Opens to a Packed House @ Evergreen Gallery!
Find out more »Prison Libraries/Prison Art – Artist Lecture Series
Laura Sherbo and Neal VanDerVoorn, Washington State Library, on Doing Time in Prison and Psychiatric Libraries: Washington State Library’s Unique Commitment. Pat Graney, with Sebastian Raine, will present Keeping the Faith/The Prison Project: 25 Years Working with Incarcerated Women in the US and Abroad. https://youtu.be/uio_fTgHdyg Seattle-based choreographer Pat Graney‘s interest in working with incarcerated women began in 1992 after a conversation with Rebecca Terrell, then head of Florida Dance Festival. This conversation later morphed into what has become Keeping the Faith/The…
Find out more »February 2016
Steve Davis, Artist Lecture Series
Steve Davis, Evergreen faculty/staff member, will talk about his work, in conjunction with the Galerie Fotoland exhibition Portraits.
Find out more »Formerly Incarcerated
Part of the Tacoma Lyceum, this Campus Panel Discussion will discuss the experience of incarceration and liberation.
Presented twice--at 10:00am and again at 6:00pm.
Art and Craft in the WCC
Come join prison chaplain Greg Garringer and Greener Grad, Rebecca Bell for lunch in the library from 11:30 until 1pm, Tuesday, February 16. Greg and Rebecca are responsible for the displays on the main floor of the library proper and up the interior stairway.
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