Wed, 02/10/2021
LAWRENCE An interdisciplinary research team at the University of Kansas has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to turn challenges, biases and pressures women face while transitioning from incarceration back to society into an interactive artistic exhibition for the public.
The two-year, $25,000 NEA grant will fund a partnership among a KU journalism and mass communications researcher, a Spencer Museum of Art curator and an artist at Harvard University to develop “Returning: Community-Based Visual Art Experience Involving Women Transitioning from Jail or Prison.” The project will partner researchers, students, artists and formerly incarcerated women to raise awareness and empathy for the obstacles the women face in returning from incarceration.