10 artists who shed light on mass incarceration
Rachel Zarrow March 17, 2021Updated: March 18, 2021, 1:07 pm An adaption of artist jackie sumell’s “Solitary Gardens” at UC Santa Cruz. The garden plots are meant to represent a solitary confinement cell, taking up the same 6-by-9-foot space. The plants, which are selected remotely by an incarcerated person in solitary confinement, only grow in the spaces where humans would usually be able to walk in the cell. Photo: R.R. Jones In the 2017 book “How To Do Politics With Art,” Lilian Mathieu describes how the arts play an important role in protest. “It provides material...