FLIGHT -

OG Chelsea images: Kisha Bari

images: Stefan Batista

local artists get the story from workshop participant

Rock, paper, scissors. Race, gender, class.

Interactive works in Coeval Quivira room of FLIGHT

VR A few moments of (dis)connection we can build on

Video Still from A few moments of (dis)connection we can build on

A brief visual history of the world and your tiny swipe.

Cibola Detention Center, Silence still equals Death

Detail, two-channel projection with audio, bird mobiles

View from below- "Most everyone who believed in the best of me."

Crossroads for Women workshop participants

detail of bird being cut with parole paper collage

Studio production, over 600 birds will be installed for FLIGHT.

illustration for American Kestrel fundraising mobile

Northern Wheatear illustration for fundraising mobile

UNM Art Museum 2018

Flight represents the culmination of a year of research, artistic collaborations, and creative interventions into the social construction of race and difference. This project combines education, community partnerships, visual art, and fundraising to expand the practical capacity of art-making into forms of discourse, civic engagement, and empathy building. The exhibit is deeply personal and intentionally socially engaged.

My experience of incarceration acts as a point of confluence, while the installations’ focus is on multiple stories of incarcerated migrants, and formerly incarcerated women and systems of classification. This exhibition is centered on understanding the personal experiences and social implications of mass incarceration.

Curated by sheri crider and Traci Quinn, Curator of Education and Public Programs

The exhibition and series of events are partially sponsored by the Right of Return Fellowship which supports formerly incarcerated artists creating original works that can further criminal justice reform in partnership with advocates and organizers.