MCLA To Hold Talk On Prison Art
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| “Blending In†by Ronnie White |
NORTH ADAMS – Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) will present “I, Too, Can Create: Art from American Prisons” on Wednesday, March 12, in the Amsler Campus Center room 324, at 5:30 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Berkshire resident and author of “Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America,” Phyllis Kornfeld, will present the lecture.
<L2> She is an internationally known expert on prison art, and has been a painter and a teacher for a number of years. Since 1983, Kornfeld has been conducting visual art programs for prison inmates, from county jail to death row, and curates exhibitions of the art.
“Prisoners are human beings with the same potential for good as the rest of us. The evidence is this art, born in the penitentiary, art that challenges stereotypes of inmates,” said Lauren O’Neal, MCLA arts management professor. “Kornfeld speaks from her personal experience with the artists, their processes, and the prison environment in which the work was created.” The lecture is co-sponsored by MCLA’s Fine and Performing Arts and Sociology departments. <R3>
For more information, go to www.mcla.edu or www.cellblockvisions.com
