Link: The Tucson Citizen article about the exhibit
Link: The web invitation to the exhibit
Link: KVOA Channel 4 News Coverage
Link: Painting by Numbers Project that started the whole thing
Link: Wesley Fawcett Creigh, the woman who made it happen
Link: The Florence Project, free legal aid to ICE Detainees
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| The Shame, acrylic on wood, 2013 |
The Shame explores the unique space women occupy in immigration and incarceration. Not only do immigrant women deal with racial and economic inequality, they must also confront gender violence. This compounds the amount and types of abuses to their bodies and their spirits- to be separated from children, to be sexually assaulted, etc. This work also acknowledges that incarceration could be extended to include the economic system that has determined what roles we are to play (ie. economic refugee), leaving us with no viable alternatives.