Paper/Proposal Title
Get Home Safe: Art as Resistance, Human Rights Education, and Liberation in Incarcerated Spaces
Location
Room S2006, Curran Place
Start Date
12-2-2021 11:30 AM
End Date
12-2-2021 1:00 PM
Keywords
Incarceration, youth art education abolition
Abstract
Abstract:
In this presentation, Marissa Gutierrez-Vicario will speak about her work with Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE), a New York-based non-governmental organization that works to amplify the voices of young people for human rights change through the visual arts. ARTE works in public schools, with community organizations, and in carceral facilities. As part of ARTE’s work, the presentation will discuss the joys and challenges of delivering human rights education and arts-based curriculum inside of jail facilities in a post-pandemic world, while simultaneously advocating for abolition as part of the mass incarceration movement within the United States. Also throughout the presentation, participants will learn about several individuals using art to bring attention to the abuses within the mass incarceration system, including formerly incarcerated artists who utilize art in order to share their lived experiences within the carceral system. Lastly, the presentation will discuss how art has been a tool to advocate for human rights change, to advocate for alternatives to incarceration and to provide an opportunity for the public to consider a world without incarceration in a post-pandemic society.
Author/Speaker Biographical Statement(s)
Marissa Gutierrez-Vicario (she/her) is the Founder and Executive Director of Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE). As a committed human rights and peace-building activist, artist, educator, and advocate for youth, Marissa launched ARTE in 2013 to help young people amplify their voices and organize for human rights change in their communities through the visual arts. She is currently the Soros Visiting Chair at the School for Public Policy at Central European University in Vienna, teaching and researching at the intersection of human rights, visual art, and public policy. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the CUNY City College of New York in the Art Department.
Included in
Art Education Commons, Interactive Arts Commons, Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Commons
Get Home Safe: Art as Resistance, Human Rights Education, and Liberation in Incarcerated Spaces
Room S2006, Curran Place
Abstract:
In this presentation, Marissa Gutierrez-Vicario will speak about her work with Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE), a New York-based non-governmental organization that works to amplify the voices of young people for human rights change through the visual arts. ARTE works in public schools, with community organizations, and in carceral facilities. As part of ARTE’s work, the presentation will discuss the joys and challenges of delivering human rights education and arts-based curriculum inside of jail facilities in a post-pandemic world, while simultaneously advocating for abolition as part of the mass incarceration movement within the United States. Also throughout the presentation, participants will learn about several individuals using art to bring attention to the abuses within the mass incarceration system, including formerly incarcerated artists who utilize art in order to share their lived experiences within the carceral system. Lastly, the presentation will discuss how art has been a tool to advocate for human rights change, to advocate for alternatives to incarceration and to provide an opportunity for the public to consider a world without incarceration in a post-pandemic society.