SAN DIEGO—Exhibition: Poetic Justice’s Voices on the Inside

Caption: Voices on the Inside: self-portrait poetry and photography, Lisa Loftus Photography

SAN DIEGO—Visit Voices on the Inside, a multimodal self-portrait poetry and photography exhibit created by incarcerated artists. It was chosen by the San Diego-Tijuana World Design Capital as a 2024 Impact Partner to unite the community with participatory design thinking strategies rooted in the urgent need for a collaborative solution to amending punitive approaches to incarceration and to increasing personal and community healing and harm reduction. The interactive art exhibit at San Diego State University engages visitors throughout the fall 2024 semester in conversations around self-portrait art making and trauma, mass incarceration, gender-based violence, poverty, addiction, and mental illness.

Over 4 months, students, researchers, and the public will observe the self-portraits of incarcerated women, read their poetry, hear them speaking in recorded interviews for the first time, and access QR codes in digital literacy spaces that contextualize and problematize the women’s carceral state. The approach is uniquely centered in their humanity, and all are welcome to this free experience of one of the most marginalized and silenced communities in America today – people in women’s jails and prisons. 

Where: SDSU Digital Humanities Library (bottom floor of the Love Library), 500 Canyon Crest Dr, San Diego, CA 92115
When: Runs October 3, 2024-November 30, 2024

For details, see: poeticjustice.org/learn-more

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