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SUMMARY:Painting Ourselves into Society - Documentary Screening
LOCATION:Central Library\nCentral Library
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DESCRIPTION:This short documentary is tied to an exhibition from September
  2024 at the Berkeley Art Center called Painting Ourselves Into Society.\n
 https://berkeleypubliclibrary.libnet.info/event/16078741
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Join us for a documentary about an art exh
 ibit&nbsp\;<em>Painting Ourselves Into Society\, </em>which was on display
  at Berkeley Art Center from September 21st\, 2024 to January 12th\, 2025.
 &nbsp\;The film explores the power of inclusion and how art can serve as a
  vehicle for it. It focuses on curator Orlando "O." Smith and traces how t
 he curatorial project emerged and was presented\, including the stories of
  two other exhibiting artists.</p>\n<p>Film screening from 11 - 12:30pm on
  Wednesday April 8th</p>\n<p>Central Library Community Meeting Room\, 3rd 
 floor</p>\n<hr />\n<p>From the Berkeley Art Center <a href="https://www.be
 rkeleyartcenter.org/painting-ourselves-into-society" title="Berkeley Art C
 enter exhibition webpage">exhibition webpage</a>:</p>\n<p><strong>Curatori
 al statement</strong><br />"The child who is not embraced by the village w
 ill burn it down to feel its warmth\,"&nbsp\;&mdash\; African Proverb</p>\
 n<p>"A person is a person because of other people\," &mdash\; Rev. Desmond
  Tutu.</p>\n<p><a href="https://www.empowermentave.org">Empowerment Avenue
 </a> asked incarcerated artists what does it mean to paint yourself into s
 ociety? What does it look like to show that we are still part of the commu
 nity? This prompt came after reflecting on\, what unites our states? Pover
 ty exacerbated by the exclusion of minorities from fair chances at economi
 c opportunities\, drug addiction\, mental health issues\, and the largest 
 prison system in the world. Our prison system punishes the symptoms of soc
 iety&rsquo\;s ills under the guise of public safety. We bear witness that 
 prisons do not make us safer. Incarceration warehouses human beings in tra
 uma\, denies them voting rights\, extracts slave labor\, and keeps us sepa
 rated from love ones\, then releases people in the desperate circumstances
  of being branded by their crimes\, strained relationships due to separati
 on\, being almost penniless despite decades of prison labor\, and in most 
 cases\, without a home. Today we come together to overcome the limitations
  of the Prison Industrial Complex\, by bringing the art and voices of inca
 rcerated people right into our living room.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Curated by:<b
 r />Orlando Smith &amp\; Rahsaan Thomas</p>\n<p>Exhibiting Artists:<br />C
 edar Annenkovna\, Corey Arthur\, Mark A C&aacute\;diz\, De&rsquo\;jon Joy\
 , Jessie Milo\, Joanna Nixon\, Jared Owens\, Alvin Smith</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>
 *Event image taken from a painting by Alvin Smith.</p>\nhttps://berkeleypu
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