What Comes Next?
The narrative continues as we examine our findings, reflect on the voices we've uncovered, and engage with our community beyond our Advisory Committee. Join us in the coming years as we weave together past and present into a story that's still being told.
The Intersection of Art and Justice
As our societies and cultures have changed and grown, our ways of addressing harm and determining punishment have changed as well. Justice is not a static concept but an evolving dialogue between society and its values. The Michener invited multidisciplinary artist jackie sumell to create work that responds to the museum's history and our country’s carceral system today. Based in New Orleans, sumell explores the intersection of art and justice, seeking to create a space for conversations around the questions: What are possible alternatives to incarceration and what could justice look like in the future? How can we address harm without creating more?
Seeds of Growth
Within the exhibition Behind These Walls: Community Perspectives on our History, open through November 24, 2024, jackie sumell invites us to consider the meaning of justice through plants and the distribution of seeds for visitors to take home, representing the literal and metaphorical growth of these ideas.
jackie will be back at the Michener in summer 2025 to create one of her signature solitary gardens. Designed in partnership with an incarcerated gardener, the garden will be the same size and blueprint as a typical solitary cell.
Behind These Walls: Reckoning with Incarceration has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Visit The Exhibit
Behind These Walls: Community Perspectives on our History is on view through November 24, 2024.
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