Going National, Going Global, Staying Local — 2018 Highlights / 2019 Plans
/We’re excited to share some highlights of our work at Prison Public Memory Project from 2018 as well as some of our plans for 2019.
Read MoreWe’re excited to share some highlights of our work at Prison Public Memory Project from 2018 as well as some of our plans for 2019.
Read MoreIn 2015, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (SOC) invited Prison Public Memory Project to become a member of their global network of historic sites and memory projects. Since then we have created a close bond with one of SOC’s members in Australia. Recently, SOC invited spokespeople from both member sites to ‘have a conversation’ in writing about their collaboration, to be published in the first 2018 Sites of Conscience newsletter.
Read MorePrison Public Memory Project Founder/Director Tracy Huling and summer intern Sarah Millender were interviewed this summer for a front-page article in the Pontiac Daily Leader, the local newspaper in Pontiac, Illinois.
Read MoreThe photographic exhibition "Prison" runs June 24 through July 23 at Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson. During the run of the exhibition, Davis Orton Gallery and the Prison Public Memory Project will co-sponsor four Thursday evening programs on topics related to Hudson, prisons, and incarceration.
Read MoreHibberd will share her practice as an interdisciplinary artist working with historical sites of institutionalization and incarceration outside the United States.
Read MoreFounder/Director Tracy Huling and Hudson (NY) Site Coordinator Brian Buckley recently received the Grinnell College Joesph F. Wall '41 Alumni Award.
Read MoreIn this excerpt from the article, "Redesigning a Prison Town," Huling urges the creation of local ‘sites of prison memory' in communities that host prisons.
Read MoreThe Prison Public Memory Project's July 9th pop-up museum was featured in the Register-Star, Hudson, New York's local newspaper.
Read MoreThree different days in July, 2015, the Prison Public Memory Project is holding pop-up museums in three different locations in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreFounder / Director Tracy Huling discussed the idea for the Prison Public Memory Project with reporter Amy Krzanik of "Rural Intelligence," an online magazine.
Read MoreThe Prison Public Memory Project uses public history, art, and new media to engage communities in conversation about the roles of prisons in society.