Windows From Prison

04.03.2015–04.26.2015
LaPetite Mort Gallery and US Embassy in Ottawa
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Works by Mark Strandquist (Richmond, VA)
Co-curated with Guy Bérubé
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Project funding by U.S. Department of State, U.S. Embassy-Ottawa Public Affairs Section Grant
Educational outreach in collaboration with MASC Ottawa (Multicultural Arts for Schools and Communities)

“If you could have a window in your cell, what place from your past would it lookout to?” This question was asked to individuals who are from Washington, DC but sent to prisons across the country. The corresponding photo requests were then fulfilled by students at George Mason University and Duke Ellington High School and mailed back to the incarcerated participants. Windows From Prison utilizes photography as a way to bridge this distance while creating space and humanistic entry points for students, faculty, NGO’s, family members of incarcerated individuals, former prisoners, and policy makers to engage with the sources, impacts, and alternatives to mass incarceration.

Images courtesy of the artist