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DESCRIPTION:The Institute of the Arts is Sciences is proud to present the participatory 
 public sculpture and garden project Solitary Garden, by jackie sumell, 
 November 5, 2019- December 6, 2020. Solitary Garden is part of Barring 
 Freedom, a multi-faceted, 18-month project which includes exhibitions of 
 art, events and workshops, and a multi-day symposium at UC Santa Cruz, 
 “Visualizing Prison Abolition,” October 15-17, 2020. Barring Freedom 
 brings together artists, activists, and scholars to imagine alternatives to 
 our fundamentally flawed criminal justice system and to galvanize a broader 
 public to address the broken promise of freedom and justice for all in the 
 United States.\n\nSolitary Garden Opening Reception\nBaskin Art Studios, 
 Quad\nNovember 5, 2019\n5:30-6:45 p.m.\n\nTraction: Art Talk with jackie 
 sumell\nDigital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108\nNovember 5, 2019\n7-9 
 p.m.\n\nSolitary Garden is an evocative and poignant 6x9 sculpture the size 
 and shape of a solitary confinement cell, surrounded by a garden, and 
 located overlooking the Monterey Bay near the Baskin Art Studios at UC 
 Santa Cruz. The participatory public sculpture and garden project is part 
 of a larger project by artist jackie sumell in which she transforms 
 solitary confinement cells into vibrant garden beds. The contents (plants, 
 flowers and herbs) of the prison-cell-turned-garden-bed are designed by 
 prisoners serving their sentences in isolation through proxies on the 
 outside. \n\nAt UC Santa Cruz, Solitary Garden is created in collaboration 
 with Tim Young, currently incarcerated at San Quentin. Students and 
 volunteers are planting and tending a garden designed by Young and 
 communicated through letters and drawings. The collaborative project aims 
 to allow the community to imagine a landscape without prisons.\n\nThe 
 public sculpture and garden project is designed to draw attention to the 
 inhumane conditions of the criminal justice system and the practice of 
 solitary confinement in the United States. While the United Nations has 
 condemned the practice as torture, there are an estimated 61,000 people 
 held in isolation for 22-24 hours each day in U.S. prisons.* Solitary 
 Garden is a call to end the inhumane conditions of solitary confinement, 
 simultaneously inspiring compassion necessary to dismantle systems of 
 punishment and control. \n\njackie sumell is a multidisciplinary artist 
 inspired by the lives of everyday people. Her work speaks to both 
 traditional artist communities and those historically marginalized by 
 structural racism. sumell’s work has been exhibited extensively 
 throughout the US and Europe. Her residencies and awards include 2017 Blade 
 of Grass-David Rockefeller Fund Joint Fellow in Criminal Justice, 2016 
 Robert Rauschenberg Artist-As-Activist Fellowship, 2015 Eyebeam Project 
 Fellowship, and 2008 Akademie Solitude Fellowship. An ardent public speaker 
 and prison abolitionist, sumell has lectured in Colleges and Universities 
 around the US including UC Berkeley (BAMPFA), RISD, ZKM Karlsruhe, and as 
 keynote for the National Prisoner Advocacy Conference 2014. sumell began 
 the Solitary Gardens project to honor the legacy of political prisoner 
 Herman Wallace, who was held in solitary confinement for over 40 years and 
 with whom jackie corresponded and collaborated for 12 years. Her 
 collaborative work with Herman Wallace, The House That Herman Built, is the 
 subject of the Emmy Award Winning documentary Herman’s House, screened to 
 a national audience on PBS in 2013. sumell’s work explores the 
 intersection of creative practices, mindfulness studies, social sculpture, 
 and the principles of The Black Panther Party for Self Defense.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/14/18827274.php
SUMMARY:Opening Reception: Solitary Garden
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences, University of California Santa 
 Cruz\nDigital Arts Research Center (DARC), UC Santa 
 Cruz\n\nhttps://arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/directions
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/14/18827274.php
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