As part of a project by artist Mark Strandquist, thousands of individuals incarcerated in the US prison system received postcards inserted into issues of Prison Health News. The postcards were blank but for a single sentence on the front of each that reads: “If you could create a window in the prison walls, what would you want the world to see?” with a space on the back for participants to describe the “window” they had designed.
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To view more postcards from the “Windows From Prison” visit “The Pencil Is a Key Drawings by Incarcerated Artists” on view until January 5, 2020. Throughout the run of the exhibition, admission to The Drawing Center will be FREE (Wed - Sun, 12pm - 6pm | Thurs, 12pm - 8pm).
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Image: Nicholas Gross, "Untitled," 2014. Pen on postcard. Courtesy of the Postcards from Prison Project, organized by Mark Strandquist.
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