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Lucky Red Backpack + Child Victims Act Outreach — and Stickers!

Honored to share the news that Picture Projects’ Director, Alison Cornyn received a grant and a lucky red backpack from GlobalGiving and The Red Backpack Fund. The fund is backed by SPANX and the Sara Blakely Foundation and is dedicated to elevating and supporting women through entrepreneurship. With this grant, we are able to extend
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Alison Cornyn: TED Talk- Rediscovering Wayward Girls

We are so excited to announce this TED Talk all about the Incorrigibles project. Picture Project’s director Alison Cornyn rediscovers wayward girls. Watch below:
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States of Incarceration Website Now Live

Picture Projects is thrilled to announce that the States of Incarceration website is now live! The first of the Humanities Action Lab’s initiatives, States of Incarceration analyzes the past, present, and future of incarceration in the US – including immigration detention centers – and its global dimensions. The interactive website will both complement the travelling exhibition as it visits the 20 host cities and stand as
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States of Incarceration Launch Events

As the launch of States of Incarceration approaches, the Humanities Action Lab has announced a list of exciting events to kick off it’s first initiative. The first of these events will be a keynote address before the exhibition opening reception on Thursday, April 14th. After that, on Friday and Saturday (April 15th – 16th), a national public forum
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Picture Project works with Humanities Action Lab

Picture Projects has partnered on a new project to research, develop and design an exhibit and media platform with the ‘Humanities Action Lab: Global Dialogues on Incarceration’ and students at Parsons The New School for Design. The project will focus on the past, present, and future of incarceration, exploring the explosion of prisons and incarcerated people in the US –
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IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK

We had a successful community event which included a photo and story share session and a round table discussion. The event was co-presented with the Hudson Area Library, and WGXC community radio and supported by a grant from the NY Council for the Humanities. Installations were hung in several rooms of the house showing what life was
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History, Art and Dialogue about Life in a Girls’ Prison, June 8th & 9th in Hudson, NY

Please join the Prison Public Memory Project and Historic Hudson for “IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK…” an exploration of life inside the New York State Training School for Girls (1904-1975) in Hudson, NY, part of Path Through History weekend, June 8th and 9th. Main events will include an art installation inside several rooms at the Dr.
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PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE EXHIBIT – THE GUANTANAMO PUBLIC MEMORY PROJECT

(Read more about the project here)
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MOBILE POLLING SYSTEM – THE GUANTANAMO PUBLIC MEMORY PROJECT

Text ‘GITMO’ to 41411 Using a mobile polling system developed by Picture Projects, visitors may interact with the exhibit, and each other, by answering a series of Yes/No questions posed by each of the exhibit panels, including “Is the US an Empire?” and “Should GTMO be used for refugees in the future?” Some answers to
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PROJECT LAUNCH — EXHIBITION, WEBSITE AND PUBLIC DIALOGUE ABOUT GUÁNTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE: THE GUANTANAMO PUBLIC MEMORY PROJECT

We’d like to invite you to visit the exhibition and website of the Guántanamo Public Memory Project. NYU’s Kimmel Windows is the first venue of 10 nationally, which will present the exhibition and national dialogue over the next two years. The project is a large collaboration among 12 partner universities and over 100 students and
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