Please join ART WORKS Projects (AWP) and First Defense Legal Aid (FDLA) at West Englewood Branch Library for a Know your Rights Workshop focused on juvenile justice. The FDLA Street Corp team will provide strategies for parents whose children are arrested or detained by police in Chicago and Cook County. AWP will show a mobile […]
Join ART WORKS Projects for the closing of Vinny and David: Life and Incarceration of a Family, a five-year photo essay by 2017 Emerging Lens winner Isadora Kosofsky. This essay documents one family's experiences with recurring periods of juvenile and adult incarceration. Beverages and food from Wow Bao provided. Presented by AWP's NextGen Committee. For the […]
Please join ART WORKS Projects at the Journeys Festival International (JFI) for an installation of AWP's film Sanctuary/Sustenance. The film traces the journey of a family during the catastrophic events of displacement, on a path to sanctuary, and through the long process of rebuilding life in a new community. Sanctuary/Sustenance aims to raise the public consciousness of these […]
Please join ART WORKS Projects and Communities and Relatives of Illinois Incarcerated Children (CRIIC) for the second Chicago opening of Still My Mother, Still My Father by photographer Isadora Kosofsky, winner of the 2017 Emerging Lens Mentorship Program. Still My Mother was originally presented alongside Vinny and David: Life and Incarceration of a Family at […]