Arts Event

“Windows From Prison” utilizes photography as a way to bridge this distance while creating space and humanistic entry points for students, faculty, NGO’s, family members of incarcerated individuals, former prisoners, and policy makers to engage with the sources, impacts, and alternatives to mass incarceration.

The version of the project being exhibited at La Petite Mort Gallery will include twelve of the original photographs and corresponding letters and instructions from the prisoners. It will also include an installation of handmade objects derived from workshops and correspondences facilitated through prisons across the US. Finally, the artist will produce an interactive outreach component where visitors can send letters to currently incarcerated individuals.
On April 2, to anticipate the exhibition opening at La Petite Mort Gallery, Mark Strandquist will deliver a free, public artist talk at the University of Ottawa focusing on the theme of “photography as social practice.” Later in the evening, in collaboration with MASC Ottawa (Multicultural Arts for Schools and Communities), the artist will facilitate a workshop with at-risk teens living in Ottawa.