{"id":561,"date":"2020-07-25T04:45:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T04:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cahcms.smca.ucf.edu\/fpep\/?page_id=561"},"modified":"2024-09-05T20:09:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T20:09:40","slug":"illuminatingdarkness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/fpep\/illuminatingdarkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Illuminating the Darkness: Our Carceral Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<div class=\"jumbotron jumbotron-fluid bg-secondary pt-6 pb-0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"text-center h1 font-condensed\">Illuminating the Darkness: Our Carceral Landscape<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Aug. 27 &#8211; Oct. 1, 2020 | <span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/gallery.cah.ucf.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCF Art Gallery<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Apr. 5 &#8211; 16, 2022 | <span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts<\/span><\/h3>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Apr. 2 &#8211; 15, 2023 | <span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although there are over 2.3 million people currently incarcerated in the United States, the prison system remains largely invisible to the majority of Americans. Prisons tend to be built in rural areas, out-of-view and away from the daily lives of many. The physical and psychological marginalization and minoritization of system-impacted people allows us to ignore mass incarceration, even though it is among the most crucial issues of our time.<strong><i>\u00a0Illuminating the Darkness: Our Carceral Landscape<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0seeks to shine a light on the effects of incarceration on the lives of Americans. The culmination of a two-year project that brought contemporary artists to Central Florida to participate in a series of discussions with incarcerated students enrolled in classes as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/fpep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida Prison Education Project<\/a>, this exhibition brings together a diverse selection of work made by twenty-five artists from around the world. Whether in sculpture and installation, drawing and painting, video and photography, printmaking and book arts, the collected works explore slavery and freedom, despair and hope, oppression and the immutability of the human spirit.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jumbotron bg-secondary pt-0 pb-3 text-center\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<a class=\"btn btn-info my-3 mr-3\"\n\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/artshumanitiesucf.exposure.co\/955de65766172e14e5c8957f5e27dafb?source=share-artshumanitiesucf\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\tVirtual Gallery\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jumbotron jumbotron-fluid bg-primary my-0 py-5\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>FEATURED ARTISTS<\/em><\/h2>\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<h5 class=\"col\" style=\"text-align: center\">Al Black<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"col\" style=\"text-align: center\">Christopher Etienne<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"col\" style=\"text-align: center\">Paul Rucker<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<h5 class=\"col\" style=\"text-align: center\">Omari Booker<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"col\" style=\"text-align: center\">Jason Fronczek<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"col\" style=\"text-align: center\">Mark Strandquist<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<h5 class=\"col\" style=\"text-align: center\">Courtney Bowles<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"col\" style=\"text-align: center\">Maria Gaspar<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"col\" style=\"text-align: center\">Hank Willis Thomas<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<h5 class=\"col\" style=\"text-align: center\">Keith Calhoun<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"col\" style=\"text-align: center\">Shaun Leonardo<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"col\" style=\"text-align: center\">Matt Watson<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<h5 class=\"col\" style=\"text-align: center\">Daniel McCarthy Clifford<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"col\" style=\"text-align: center\">Chandra McCormick<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"col\" style=\"text-align: center\">Purvis Young<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<h5 class=\"col\" style=\"text-align: center\">Baz Dreisinger<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"col\" style=\"text-align: center\">Jhafis Quintero<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"col\" style=\"text-align: center\">FPEP incarcerated students<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jumbotron jumbotron-fluid bg-inverse bg-primary my-0 py-5\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"row\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mx-auto mr-5\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/UCF-tab.png\" alt=\"Ucf Tab\" height=\"80\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mx-auto mr-5\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/2018-FPEP-logo.png\" alt=\"FPEP Logo\" 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class=\"h4\">For Freedoms Town Hall on the Carceral Landscape and Art as Activism<\/h3>\n<p class=\"lead\">Wednesday, Sept. 9 | Noon \u2013 1 p.m. |\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ab003c\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ab003c\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MZFMLw-JSUM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by For Freedoms, the Cornell Museum of Fine Arts, and the UCF Art Gallery and featuring Omari Booker, Gisela Carbonell, and Keri Watson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<hr class=\"mt-2 mb-4\" \/>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"row mb-4\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"col text-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rounded-circle mr-3 mr-sm-0 mb-sm-3 img-fluid\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/09\/rucker-proliferation-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Image of U.S. map made up of clustered dots\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-7 col-md-8 col-lg-9\">\n<h3 class=\"h4\">Panel Discussion on Racism and Mass Incarceration<\/h3>\n<p class=\"lead\">Wednesday, Sept. 16 | Noon \u2013 1 p.m. |<strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ab003c\"><a style=\"color: #ab003c\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qT_RhboAIIk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Featuring formerly incarcerated artists and activists\u00a0Ruben Salda\u00f1a, Gale Buswell, Marquis McKenzie, Jason Fronczek, Daniel McCarthy Clifford, Christopher Etienne, Terrell Blount and Jhafis Quintero.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<hr class=\"mt-2 mb-4\" \/>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"row mb-4\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"col text-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rounded-circle mr-3 mr-sm-0 mb-sm-3 img-fluid\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/luke-richardson.png\" alt=\"Photo of a tree\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-7 col-md-8 col-lg-9\">\n<h3 class=\"h4\">Staged Reading of Dominique Morisseau\u2019s\u00a0<i>Blood at the Root<\/i><\/h3>\n<p class=\"lead\">Saturday, Oct. 3 | 7 p.m. | <a 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