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Portrait Garden

In conjunction with the exhibition Prison Nation

Location

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn

Date

August 22, 2022 (All Day Event)

Description

In conjunction with the exhibition Prison Nation, the Library Gallery presents Portrait Garden, a display of works by Lynn Cazabon, professor of visual arts and director of the Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity (CIRCA), in the Library Rotunda.

Portrait Garden is a metaphorical garden of ‘portraits’ of eleven women incarcerated at Maryland Correctional Institution for Women, a multilevel security prison. Portrait Garden used environmental stewardship as a tool for self-reflection through the selection of plants to represent each woman and resulted in the co-creation of three perennial gardens on the prison grounds. The display of the project consists of a collection of photographs of the cultivated plants paired with recorded statements by each woman and was first displayed as a series of interactive posters in Baltimore Light Rail trains.

A book about the project, Portrait Garden: Self-Renewal through Environmental Stewardship, was published in 2017. Portrait Garden was initially funded by a Rubys Media Arts Grant through the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.


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