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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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HOLT/SMITHSON FOUNDATION website launches

Earth Day seems to be the perfect day to share the latest web project we produced with the Holt/Smithson Foundation, an organization that exists to continue the creative and investigative spirit of the artists Nancy Holt (1938-2014) and Robert Smithson (1938-73). It has truly been a privilege to work with these two gifted artists’ incredible #earthworks. Explore the site at: https://holtsmithsonfoundation.org/
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INCORRIGIBLES SELECTED AS A NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre  GRANT RECIPIENT

This grant will support the development and production of an interview webisode series with expert subjects in the fields of criminal justice, psychology, gender, and law. These videos will be accessible through the new website.
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Incorrigibles: Bearing Witness to the Incarcerated Girls of New York

We are excited to announce the opening of the exhibition;  Incorrigibles: Bearing Witness to the Incarcerated Girls of New York. This exhibition showcases the work of artists involved with the Incorrigibles project as well as the stories of women who were incarcerated at the New York State Training School for Girls. This exhibition features work by
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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 Exhibits

National Traveling Exhibitions & Events States of Incarceration is continuously growing from 500 people in 17 states. It explors the roots of mass incarceration in our own communities through opening national dialogue on what will happen next. PAST – See and hear past programs April 3, 2016 – April 24, 2016 Aronson Gallery, Sheila Johnson
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Incorrigibles Selected as a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Recipient

Spurred from preliminary research in the Prison Public Memory Project, Incorrigibles is a transmedia project that tells the stories of ‘incorrigible’ girls in the United States over the last 100 years – beginning with New York State. Drawing on the personal narratives of young women in “the system”, the work investigates the history and present state
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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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National Endowment for the Humanities Awards Grant to The New School’s Humanities Action Lab

The National Endowment for the Humanities recently awarded The New School’s ‘Humanities Action Lab: Global Dialogues on Incarceration’ a $250,000 grant. The grant will help fund the travelling exhibit that accompanies their first project, States of Incarceration. Meant to travel to at least 20 cities over 3 years, the exhibit will focus on the collective
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