Petworth News: You’re Invited to Reimagine Justice at Lincoln’s Cottage through a New Art Exhibit
In August of 2020, as COVID had citizens across the country thinking about mortality, Lezmond Mitchell, a Navajo Citizen, walked to his execution. His death met with outrage as he was executed by the US government for a crime committed on tribal land. Mitchell was one of three prisoners on death row who, according to a joint artist statement, “Slid canvases under the steel door of their respective one-man cells and handed it off to the inmate worker who would pass the artwork to the next collaborator in line” to create a six-panel acrylic portrait of Barack Obama that captured their shattered hopes in his promise of change.
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Tags:Abraham Lincoln, DC history, DC Museums, hidden gems, incarcerated art, justice art, prison art, prison reform, social justice
