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“I have tried many times to grow flowers and other seasonal plants here in this cell and it just won’t work! The concrete and steel and particularly
the small closed-in area stifles the growth of plant life and causes the plant to die long before it develops.”
- Herman Wallace, excerpt from a letter to jackie sumell, Feb, 2006
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Installation image, Cohen Gallery, Granoff Center, Brown University 2019
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Herman Wallace loved flowers. In many ways flowers became his pièce de résistance and a part of the reclamation of his humanity as he survived 41-years of solitary confinement. With his passing, Herman's
love of plants became the inspiration for the Solitary Gardens and now, his paper flowers have inspired a collaboration with Katie
Green in the massive 3-floor installation, A
Landscape Without Prisons. at the Granoff Center, Brown University.❤️ If you are in the Providence area come see the evolution of Herman's House into the Solitary Gardens and how his life and legacy has catalyzed a special commitment to wonder, gardening,
and prison abolition.
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🗣 Let's Talk About It: Upcoming Lectures 🌿 |
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Above image, jackie sumell addressing an audience at Georges Auditorium, Dillard University
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Granoff Center |
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Brown: TERRA: Art | Land | Justice
A Brown Arts Initiative Symposium on Arts & Environment (keynote) September
19, 4:30 pm
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Broad Museum |
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MSU: Broad Art Museum
CAL Critical Race Studies, Artist Talk
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🗣 We're gonna kickstart a new project in October....👀🤭🤔🤗 |
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The Prisoner's Apothecary
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🤩SNEAK PEAK 🤩The Prisoner’s Apothecary will take the plants grown in the Solitary Gardens and turn them into natural medicine, as tea, tinctures, and salves. We will offer the plant medicine and healing justice workshops, for free, to communities
marginalized by mass incarceration, violence, and heteropatriarchy. The Prisoner’s Apothecary will be built with a collective of grassroots organizers, artists, healthcare dissidents, farmers and educators working toward harm reduction, health sovereignty,
and accessible community care The medicine will be grown and designed by folks who are still incarcerated-- in this way, incarcerated individuals have a unique opportunity to heal the communities they are often accused of harming, transcending american perceptions
of criminality, restitution, and redemption. 🌿👉🏼STAY CLOSE TO HELP LAUNCH THIS CAMPAIGN👈🏼🌿
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“Nature also teaches me persistence and perseverance, because in the end ‘nothing stops nature.’ If a rose can grow out of the concrete, than
so can we.”
--Micah Hobbes Frazier
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For more news and upcoming events, check out our website or
click on the image below: |
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If you are interested in contributing to our project, we encourage you to make a donation via
check! Checks can be made payable to "Voice
of the Experienced" (a 501(c)(3) & our fiscal sponsor), denoting "Solitary Gardens" in the memo. Please mail checks to:
Voice of the Experienced
c/o Solitary Gardens
P.O. Box 792404, New Orleans, LA 70179
All donations are fully tax-deductible.
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As always; stay close, grow forward, plant love &
follow our Instagram (@solitarygardens) for
updates! |
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