Museums and Prisons: A Conversation with Dr. Baz Dreisinger

Director of Development & Partnerships at the MAH

Join us for a conversation about the relationship between museums and prisons, presented in conjunction with The Writing on the Wall.

Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History

How do you tell the history of a society in crisis? What does it mean to transform sites of injustice into spaces for art?
Join us for a conversation about the relationship between museums and prisons, presented in conjunction with The Writing on the Wall and featuring Dr. Baz Dreisinger (who conceived the project together with her students at John Jay College and artist Hank Willis Thomas), Devon Simmons, and Matthew Wilson. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Rachel Nelson, director of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences, and Dr. Luke A. Fidler.﻿________Image: The Writing on the Wall exhibition (installation view), photo by Daris Jasper @culturesaving.

Dr. Rachel Nelson is director and chief curator of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. She has curated and organized exhibitions including Barring Freedom, a group exhibition engaging art, prisons, and justice; Carlos Motta: We The Enemy; jackie sumell: Solitary Garden; Newton Harrison and Helen Mayer Harrison: Future Garden, and other projects with artists including Sadie Barnette, Maria Gaspar, Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas, and Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. Nelson also writes and publishes extensively on contemporary art and geopolitics, including exhibition catalogue essays, journal articles, and reviews in Journal of Curatorial Studies, Public History Weekly, Brooklyn Rail, NKA, Third Text, Savvy, and African Arts. She teaches in the History of Art and Visual Culture department at UC Santa Cruz.

Luke A. Fidler is curator at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and program manager of the Visualizing Abolition initiative. He received his PhD in art history at the University of Chicago.

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