"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.