What Cannot Be Taken Away: Families and Prisons Project | SOMA

Submitted by the Event Organizer

There are over seven million youth in this country with parents in the legal justice system. What Cannot Be Taken Away: Families and Prisons Project is a new exhibition of collaborative paintings with Evan Bissell and Community Works that share the experiences of eight individuals who have experienced this rupture in their own families. Resulting from eight months of intergenerational, creative dialogue between Bay Area youth who have incarcerated parents, and fathers who are currently incarcerated in San Francisco Jail, the exhibition centers around eight life-size collaboratively designed and created portraits. The exhibition also includes interactive wall drawings, installation pieces, audio, documentation of the process and a dynamic workshop series.

Curator/Resident Artist: Evan Bissell in collaboration with Community Works
Opening reception: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 6:30 – 9:30pm
Artist talk: Thursday August 12, 6:30 – 7:00pm
Exhibition: August 12 – September 12, 2010
Closing reception: Sunday, September 12, 3:00 – 5:00pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday 12:00 – 7:00pm, Saturday 12:00 – 5:00pm
Sunday September 12 12:00 – 5:00pm

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