Art and Justice Summit on Alcatraz
Saturday, September 21, 2019
We had two main goals for our Art and Justice Summit on Alcatraz:
(1) To reflect on the work we had accomplished with the year-long exhibition and series of community programs and build towards next steps. This included:
- Holding space for the reentry community & other justice impacted individuals to share their stories of trauma and transformation
- Expanding the work of Alcatraz as an International Site of Conscience by including individuals from the reentry community who engage in these issues in a real way
- Considering the effectiveness of bringing together civic engagement and the arts
(2) To create a video documentation of our conversations that day.
- We felt a need to capture the hard-to-see transformative exchanges that defined this project and have given it so much meaning and power. This video will live on after the project and continue to get the message out.
SCHEDULE
Focused Discussion, 11:00am – 12:45pm
- A conversation among featured discussants that included thought leaders in justice reform and the arts, members of the Future IDs team, and National Parks Service and Parks Conservancy staff. Facilitated by Sara Daleiden, civic engagement consultant and artist.
Roundtable Discussion, 1:15pm – 2:30pm
- We expanded our conversations with a moderated roundtable discussion led by Roberto Bedoya, City of Oakland Cultural Affairs Manager, and included a curated group of attendees.
Closing Celebration, 2:30pm – 5:00pm
FEATURED DISCUSSANTS
- Aaron Greene, Student Assistant, Project Rebound, California State University-Fresno
- Adrielle Pittman, Artist-Participant, Future IDs at Alcatraz
- Andrew Winn, Artist-Participant, Future IDs at Alcatraz
- Arnoldo Trevino, Artist-Participant, Future IDs at Alcatraz
- Candice Price, Artist-Participant, Future IDs at Alcatraz
- David Muhammad, Executive Director, National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform
- Dolores Canales, Community Outreach Director, The Bail Project; Director, National Network of Solitary Survivors & Families Project; Co-Founder, California Families Against Solitary Confinement
- Dominique Bell, Project Collaborator, Future IDs at Alcatraz
- Dorsey Nunn, Executive Director, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children; Co-Founder, All of Us or None
- Elizabeth Calvin, Senior Advocate, Children’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch
- Emiliano Lopez, Artist-Participant, Future IDs at Alcatraz
- Emily Levine, Supervising Park Ranger, Alcatraz
- Erick Cortes, Park Ranger, Alcatraz
- Ernest Kirkwood, Art & Justice Intern, Future IDs at Alcatraz
- Gregory Sale, Lead Artist, Future IDs at Alcatraz
- Jessica Tully, Core Project Collaborator, Future IDs at Alcatraz
- Jim Breeden, Coordinator, Alcatraz Formerly Incarcerated Speaker Series
- Katherine Toy, Executive Vice President, Partnerships & Programs, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
- Kelly Savage, Art & Justice Intern, Future IDs at Alcatraz
- Kirn Kim, Core Project Collaborator, Future IDs at Alcatraz
- LaVell Baylor, Artist-Participant, Future IDs at Alcatraz
- Lily Gonzalez, Artist-Participant, Future IDs at Alcatraz
- Luis Garcia, Core Project Collaborator, Future IDs at Alcatraz
- Michael Mendosa, Director, #Cut50
- Patricia Leigh Brown, Journalist, New York Times
- Rebecca Jackson, Director of Cameo House, Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice
- Sabrina Bedford, Art & Community Engagement Program Manager, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
- Sabrina Reid, Core Project Collaborator, Future IDs at Alcatraz
- Shannon Jackson, Associate Vice Chancellor of Arts + Design, Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Chair in the Humanities, and Professor, University of California, Berkeley. Author of Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics
- Steven Tepper, Dean, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University
- Sunny Schwartz, Co-Founder, Five Keys Schools
- Ted Russell, Associate Director, Arts Strategy & Ventures, Kenneth Rainin Foundation
- Troy Williams, Founder, The San Quentin Report; Participant, Alcatraz Formerly Incarcerated Speaker Series
- Velda Dobson-Davis, Program Coordinator for Healing Trauma and Beyond Violence programs at Central California Women’s Facility; Retired Chief Deputy Warden, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
The Future IDs Art and Justice Summit on Alcatraz was co-hosted by a range of contributors including artist Gregory Sale and the Future IDs Creative Team, including core project collaborators Dr. Luis Garcia, Kirn Kim, Sabrina Reid, and Jessica Tully, as well as Roberto Bedoya, Christa Cesario, and Sara Daleiden. Additional co-hosts include the Art in the Parks program of the National Park Service and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, with Rangers Erick Cortes and Emily Levine, and Parks Conservancy staff Sabrina Bedford, Jim Breeden, Kate Bickert, and Katherine Toy.
View the program flyer: Sep 21 Program
Photos by Peter Merts, 2019
