Windows on Death Row Art From Inside and Outside the Prison Walls

After touring U.Southward. and European cities for two years, "Windows on Death Row: Fine art from Inside and Outside the Prison Walls," makes its New York premiere at Columbia Constabulary Schoolhouse in New York City. Its creators explicate that the art exhibit, featuring over 60 works by people on death row and some of America'southward top political cartoonists, is designed to stimulate conversation on an issue that touches politics, race, morality, and the question of equality under the constabulary. This extraordinary collaborative project captures our collective response to the crimes of decease row inmates, as well as the reactions of the inmates themselves to their crimes and their punishment. The showroom, which will run until mid-November, is on view on the commencement floor of Columbia Constabulary Schoolhouse, 435 Westward. 116th Street.

At the September 19th opening event, the projection's founders—editorial cartoonist Patrick Chappatte and filmmaker Anne-Frédérique Widmann—volition take you behind the scenes of the exhibition and into expiry row through a xl-minute on-stage multimedia presentation. Fifty-6-year-old painter Ndume Olatushani, who spent xx years on death row for a offense he did not commit, will participate in a roundtable discussion with his lawyer, David Herrington, and Columbia Law School kinesthesia members George Kendall and Carine Williams. Nib Keller, editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project and former executive editor of The New York Times, will moderate. Afterward, Chappatte and Widmann will join the grouping for a Q&A. The program is free and open to the public.

The showroom expresses a critical dimension of the contend over the future of death penalty in the U.S. Death sentences and executions have declined sharply in the U.Southward. over the past xv years. Yet more than 2,800 people remain on death row in states and federal prisons across the land. They are incarcerated in harsh weather condition for long periods that in some cases span decades. The showroom expresses the complex and intense emotions arising from their fourth dimension on expiry row, and their struggle to maintain their dignity and the dignity of others on death row.

"We are honored to bring these powerful images from decease row inmates and notable journalists to Columbia Law School. These works focus our attention on urgent bug on punishment and justice that drive our national fence on execution," said Jeffrey Fagan, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Police School and one of the coordinators of the showroom and related programming at Columbia.

The inmates whose piece of work is included in the show were asked to draw and pigment their daily lives and personal experiences in prison house. Widmann and Chappatte visited maximum-security prisons, organized an art workshop on death row, and received works from inmates incarcerated in Texas, California, Georgia, North Carolina, Arkansas, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. The founders also invited a dozen of America'due south meridian political cartoonists to share their take on the consequence. Among those featured are: Pat Oliphant and Jeff Danziger (syndicated worldwide), David Horsey (Los Angeles Times), Ann Telnaes (Washington Postal service), KAL (The Economist, Baltimore Dominicus), Mike Luckovich (Atlanta Constitution), Matt Wuerker (Politico), Nick Anderson (Houston Relate) and Scott Stantis (Chicago Tribune). Anne Hromadka curated the exhibition.

The collection offers a sharp and witty indicate of view on the ongoing debate about capital punishment in America. Chappatte and Widman say, "We promise to contribute to a necessary contend that is not merely taking place inside the United States, but likewise between America and the residual of the Western democracies."

Ellen Chapnick, dean emerita of Social Justice Initiatives and the co-coordinator of the showroom and events said, "Columbia is the only Law School to host this exhibit. Ideally, it volition inspire our community to bring together the many faculty members, students, and graduates who already do significant work on capital defense, prison house conditions, and other criminal justice issues."

Related Events

Throughout the show's run, Columbia Police force Schoolhouse will nowadays a series of public events that explore the power of art, freedom of expression, and the futurity of capital punishment. Some other focus will exist the repercussions a death penalty has not only on defendants, only as well on their communities.

• October 11, 12:ten p.thousand.–i:20 p.yard. Book presentation and talk.

Brandon L. Garrett '01, the Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Police at the Academy of Virginia School of Police, talks about his new volume, End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice, followed by comments by Jelani Cobb, Columbia Professor and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Lunch will be served.

• October 12, 6:thirty p.m.–8:xxx p.k. "Whither the Death Penalisation?"

Leading capital defense lawyers discuss strategic litigation and policy, chastened past Columbia Law Schoolhouse Professor Bernard Harcourt. Reception to follow.

• October xxx, 6:xxx p.g.–viii:30 p.m. "Protecting Cartoonists and Satire."

Cartoonists' expressions of political ideas are threatened past violence, the state, and social media campaigns. Artists whose piece of work is exhibited in "Windows on Death Row" will hash out their experiences and the need to defend the liberty of the press. David Schulz, a Floyd Abrams Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and a leading Start Subpoena lawyer, volition moderate. Reception to follow.

• Week of Nov 13, The Exonerated

This winner of the 2003 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for best play tells the interwoven truthful stories of vi wrongfully convicted survivors of death row, in their own words. Members of the Columbia University community, under professional management, volition perform.

Exhibition Team Member Biographies

Founder: Patrick Chappatte

An editorial cartoonist for The New York Times and a pioneer of comics journalism in print, web, and animation, Patrick Chappatte was named a Young Global Leader by the Earth Economic Forum in 2006. In 2011 and 2015, he received the Thomas Nast Honor from the New York Overseas Press Club of America. In 2012, he was named a doctor of international relations, honoris causa, by the Geneva School of Diplomacy. He was a research fellow at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and sat on the school'south Innovation Lab advisory board. Chappatte has delivered talks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, most recently in January 2017, too as TED conferences. The New York Times has published vii collections of his cartoons.

Promoting editorial cartooning as a tool for dialogue, and art as a mode to facilitate conversations on human rights, Chappatte has mounted projects with editorial cartoonists in conflict-ridden countries over the final ten years. Such initiatives, featuring workshops, exhibitions, and debates, were organized in Serbia, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Kenya, and Republic of guatemala with the support of the Swiss Federal Department of Strange Affairs. He also co-founded the Geneva-based foundation Cartooning for Peace, with Kofi Annan as honorary president, establishing an international prize to recognize cartoonists for their courage.

Founder: Anne-Frédérique Widmann

Anne-Frédérique Widmann is a Swiss investigative reporter, producer, and documentary filmmaker for the Swiss TV Broadcasting. In New York, she was the foreign correspondent for the Swiss daily Le Nouveau Quotidien and the news magazine L'Hebdo (1995–1998). Widmann joined Swiss Boob tube in 2003, where she became the co-producer, editor-in-chief, and anchor of the electric current affairs documentary program Temps Present (the Swiss equivalent of threescore Minutes). In 2010, she set the investigative squad of the Swiss Tv set and Radio Broadcasting Corp. (RTS), which she led until 2014.

Widmann'southward documentary, An Centre for an Heart: The Vengeance of the Gaddafi Association (2014), was nominated for the Europa Prize and was a finalist for the Italia Prize. In 2010, she was awarded the Nicolas Bouvier Prize for best documentary for her work in Republic of colombia.

Guest Curator: Anne Hromadka

An contained curator and arts management consultant, Hromadka's curatorial work includes directing ii commercial galleries, serving as arts administrator for the Y&South Nazarian Family Foundation, and serving equally the curator for the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Found of Religion. She also runs her own nonprofit, NuART Projects, which raises funds to support local artists.

Hromadka's curatorial practice is rooted in a love for storytelling—bringing together communities to explore their narratives in the public sphere through interactive design. Examples of her approach tin can be seen in several of her recent projects. In 2014, she co-curated an exhibition with Hirokazu Kosaka, artistic managing director at the Japanese American Civilisation & Community Middle, as part of Voices of LA, a citywide festival bringing together various artists to gloat Los Angeles's rich, multicultural fabric.

Hromadka was likewise the co-curator of 7,567mi→ at the 2015 Jerusalem Biennale. To implement its goal to create a dialogue that extended beyond the biennale, Hromadka and her co-curator Georgia Freedman-Harvey, partnered with iii regional institutions to curate tandem exhibitions in Southern California.

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Posted September 12, 2017

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