EMMA BERGMAN

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If It’s Not A Dream
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Movement Shoes by James Jones


Visitation: Abolitionist Creations For and Far From Home (2022)exhibition

with Lauren Matrka and Eden Chinn

shown at All Street NYC

press: Advocates use fashion to promote abolition and illustrate the toll of incarceration (Tamar Sarai for Prism Reports)
Visitation is a gallery exhibition and fundraiser I organized featuring work by incarcerated artists, formerly incarcerated artists, and artists impacted by the prison industrial complex.

“Altering the boots that were intended to walk the yard on the feet of the oppressed and powerless, and making them beautiful with powerful presentations of color and messages of hope is a form of resistance that really resonates with my comrades inside.” - James Jones

Featured artists: Harold Beard, Billie Allen, Kristina Bivona, James Jones, Mon M, Grace Rother, and Rodney Slayton.

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Facing the Truth by Billie Allen
Fighting to Live While Waiting to Die by Billie Allen
Master’s XxX by Kristina Bivona
Untitled (Rikers interiors on commissary sheets) by Harold Beard
Untitled (jewelry box made of commissary items) by Rodney Slayton