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
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
February 2025 We Will Have Our Spring is an exhibition which engages the relationships between environmental injustice and the United States’ carceral system. In recent years, the connections between policing, incarceration, climate crisis, pollution, and… Read More »We Will Have Our Spring
A visual protest against injustice October 2024 – January 2025 Undoing the Carceral State is an exhibition organized by currently incarcerated artist and scholar, Joseph Dole. As a recipient of an IL Humanities grant, Dole… Read More »Undoing the Carceral State
An Intimate Experience of Incarceration June 21, 2024 – October 2024 Reckless Law, Shameful Order is an exhibition of artworks created in workshops where formerly incarcerated artists shared their experiences of confinement with one another.… Read More »Reckless Law, Shameless Order
Comics by Arkee Chaney and artists at Stateville Prison Jan 27 – May 31. 2024 Political cartoons and comics have long been a feature of art and art history. Early political cartoons can be found… Read More »It Ain’t That Funny
