Presented as a part of Resisting the Long War: 2026 Veteran Art Triennial & Summit October 29, 2026 – February 25, 2027 Organized with incarcerated veteran artists, War Abolition foregrounds visions of freedom, refusal, and… Read More »War Abolition
July 11, 2026 – October 15, 2026 Photos by Sarah Ji Prison Papers: Organizing Inside/Outside Solidarity is an exhibition that examines the way prison newspapers facilitate exchange and solidarity across prison walls. Inspired by a… Read More »Prison Papers: Organizing Inside/Outside Solidarity
In the fall of 2024 the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights reached out to us at Walls Turned Sideways with the idea to commission formerly incarcerated artists who had experiences with solitary confinement to… Read More »These Walls Do Talk
About this Portfolio This portfolio of prints was led by Jimmy Soto from Build Communities, Not Prisons and Sarah Ross from Liberation Lab at Walls Turned Sideways. In the summer of 2025, fifteen artists came… Read More »NO NEW PRISONS IL
Poetry and Portraits from the Age of Censorship and Detention January 30th, 2026 – May 24th, 2026 Through deconstructed VHS tapes inscribed with poetry and collage portraits of directly impacted people, Faylita Hicks transforms discarded… Read More »The Digital Archives of the Unseen
606 Da Vault brings together graffiti artists from Southside Chicago including Mongo, Neto, Curse, Skeam, and Klown. The artists will show individual work and a new collaborative project created for the gallery at Walls Turned… Read More »606 Da Vault
Following the assasination of Dr. Martin Luther King on April 4 of 1968, Chicago’s westside neighborhoods erupted in mass demonstrations in resistance to racial and state perpetrated violence. This photo, taken at Homan and 5th… Read More »April 6, 1968
On June 16, 1979, West Garfield Park community members filled in a pothole at West Van Buren and South Springfield Ave in a collective action of community care. While little to no information can be… Read More » June 16, 1979
In a time of war, siege, and silence, the photography exhibition “Between Sky and Sea” arrives in Chicago for its second edition. Created entirely remotely from within besieged Gaza, the exhibition is the work of… Read More »Between Sky and Sea
This show features writing and visual art by members of the Writ112 writers’ collective, founded at Stateville Correctional Center, and system-impacted individuals from across the state who have been published in the magazine Feather Bricks.… Read More »Writing from All Sides of the Moon
