In September, The Wexner Center for the Arts will be hosting its Director's Dialogue on Art and Social Change Event featuring Pens to Pictures: Empowering Incarcerated Women from Script to Screen.
At this event, community members will be able to view the documentary, Pens to Pictures, a documentary project where incarcerated women are taught to make their own short films, and five short films created by women in the Dayton Correctional Institution with the help of Wright State University students, artists and filmakers, and the Wexner Center's Film/Video Studio Program.
There will also be a following panel discussion with Chinonye Chukwu (artist, Wright State Assistant Professor of Motion Pictures, and creator of the program), OSU professors Townsand Price-Spratlen (Sociology and moderator) and Audrey Begun (College of Social Work), and Tammy Fournier-Alsaada (author, advocate, and organizer of Ohio's Juvenile Justice Coalition). Together they plan to discuss issues facing women in incarceration today, such as addiction, abuse, and prison reform.
The film viewings and the following panel discussion will begin at 7pm on Sept. 6th. However, discussions with the directors and staff from the Dayton Correctional Institute will take place at 3pm, and networking opportunities with regional nonprofits and advocacy organizations that work to address the impact of mass incarceration and challenges of reentry will begin at 5pm.
This is a free event, open to the Columbus community. If you are interested in attending this event, please RSVP at wexarts.org.
