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Gallery Guide
Quick Reference

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Front Left 

01. All the other kids, 2018, James “Yaya” Hough, ballpoint pen on book page
02. Solitary, Todd “Hyung Rae”Tarselli, 2020, Instant coffee on a paper bag
03. Self Inflicted Injury, Zhi Kai Vanderford, 2022, pastel on brown paper
04. Bubblewrap Lockdown, Mark Loughney 2020, acrylic on canvas board       
05. Wake Up Free, Darrell Van Mastrigt, 2020, acrylic on canvas board
06. Free Your Mind, 2020, Matt Matteo, oil
07. Untitled, Benji Hill, 2024, pencil
08. End Death by Incarceration, Angela Hellman, 2020, colored pencil and pen on manilla envelope

Front Right

09. Grow Where You Are Planted, Nichole Pariah Hollingsworth, 2020, pencil
10. Who learns from this? By James Marschner, 2020, pen and pencil 
11. What We Lose by Elena House-Hay, 2020, watercolor
12. Q-Bert Cells by Matt Mateo, 1999, acrylic on canvas
13. Doors of Freedom, Cyd Berger, 2023, crossstitch
14. Wolf, Todd “Hyung Rae” Tarselli, 2017, digital print of acrylic painting on leaf       
15. This Time Is Killing Me, Duane Montney, 2020, graphite and charcoal
16. An Untimely Death, Shonda Walter, 2020, Ballpoint pen and manilla folder  
17. BLM by Angela Hellman, 2020, colored pencil and pen
18. Be Not Afraid of Change, Latosha Gross, 2020, cross stitch
19. Touch by Bruce Bainbridge, 2023, acrylic on paper
20. Who holds the key to your heart? by Anntonésa Woodard, Pen and pencil
21. Depression by Matt Mateo, 1999, acrylic
22. Bird Free Cage by Marsha Scaggs, 2019, cross stitch

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We Miss You 

24. Move at the Speed of Trust by Devon Cohen, 2021, digital print of paper cutting
25. Peace by etta cetera 2018, letters from Robert Sugarbear Clark & Sierra Club Calendar
26. Palestine by Hedaya, 2023, fine art giclee print of watercolor
27. Forever and a day by Ulric Joseph, oil and plexiglass on wood and masonite 

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Back Wall

28. Life Without Parole by Augustin Gallardo 2005, pencil
29. Self Portrait by Augustin Gallardo 2005, pencil
30. Maasi Warrior, Dominic Newsome, 2023, acrylic on canvas [on loan from yvette shipman]

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Gallery Guide
A Deeper Look

1. All the other kids, 2018, James “Yaya” Hough, ballpoint pen on book page

James “Yaya” is an artist living in Pittsburgh. He sent this drawing to etta in 2018 near the end of his 27 year stint in PA prisons w/ a juvenile life sentence.  Instagram @hough9459 Check out this interview between Yaya and etta facilitated by Dana Bishop Root at the Carnegie Museum of Art, December 22, 2022

2. Solitary, Todd “Hyung Rae”Tarselli, 2020, Instant coffee on a paper bag

Solitary was done by using the instant coffee packets found in the “lockdown bags” (breakfast bags given during a typical lockdown). This piece shows a portrait of someone looking through the food slot while being held in a solitary confinement unit. People in solitary are held for 23 hours a time and let out for one hour day into a giant cage for “rec”.

Hyung-Rae also known as TR is famous for his incredible paintings on leaves that fly across the fences into his reach. He calls them his contraband series. You can read more about TR on Let’s Get Free’s Prison Advisors page. TR is among the over 5,100 sentenced to die in PA’s prison with a Life Without Parole sentence.

3. Self Inflicted Injury, Zhi Kai Vanderford, 2022, pastel on brown paper

Zhi Kai writes: I had a hard time encompassing all that freedom would mean to me. For example, this is a no touch facility, so I haven’t had a hug in 5 years. I will be having a visit soon and remedy that. But the concept is not easily quantifiable, to be able to go to a door and open it, a fridge, a night time sky, petting animals, etc. So I sent you my first piece called ‘self-inflicted injury’ as incarceration is my fault. In my work, I have sewn my eyes and mouth shut but in my mind’s eye I see my potential life. It is not exactly the theme but I am hopeful you will display it. 

Zhi Kai H. Vanderford is a 55 year old driven activist, poet and artist for human rights. A transman and life prisoner, he has spent 36 consecutive years incarcerated between California, Oklahoma and Minnesota women’s prisons. He has a BA in Communications with dual minors in Business Management & Sociology. Minnesota’s Barnes & Thornburg law firm and All Square Restaurant are 2022-2023 benefactors for his paralegal training. His essays can be found in books: Poetry Unbound, Yellow Medicine Review, The Named & the Nameless, Our Red Book, Tuft University’s ReSentencing Journal and All Rise Magazine. Zhi Kai’s poetry & art are intermittently showcased on various and sundry websites such as: Arizona University, Maryland’s Justice Arts Coalition and Pennsylvania’s Prison Health News. Zhi Kai’s career goal is to prevent LGBTQ teen suicide, incarceration and advocate toward better solutions.

Zhi Kai was recently transferred to a men’s prison at his request.

4. Bubblewrap Lockdown, Mark Loughney 2020, acrylic on canvas board       

Mark writes: I call these little striped characters Botflies. They’re pupae…and they represent a transitional life stage. Their black and white stripes are indicative of a prisoner, but they seem to have an innate bouncy joyfulness that seems ready to bust out of their shiny chitinous exoskeleton. Prison is a land of repetition and regimentation, so I’ve depicted that in my paintings by organizing my Botflies into rows and columns. – Loughney

Mark has this amazing project called the Prison Portrait Project this article by the Marshall Project is how etta learned about Mark when he was still in prison.. Mark is also featured in and on the cover of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole Fleetwood Mark got out two summer of 2022! Stay Free Mark!
Loughney Art – Instagram

5. Wake Up Free, Darrell Van Mastrigt, 2020, acrylic on canvas board  

All of us on the inside are waiting and hoping for that day we can ‘Wake up Free’ again. We hope for that day we can wake up with our family and loved ones by our side and at home. Those on the outside are waiting and hoping for the day when their loved ones wake up at home with them. We are all “Still Hoping to be free one day together!”

Darrell Van Mastrigt is serving a life sentence at SCI Fayette and has been in community with Let’s Get Free since 2020. 

6. Free Your Mind, 2020, Matt Matteo, oil

Matt Matteo is known across the PA prison system for his amazing art skill. He has been out of prison for sometime. Alan and etta discovered three of Matt’s paintings at the Green Beacon gallery in Greensburg, PA and have been looking for Matt ever since. If you know him, please connect us. 

7. Untitled, Benji Hill, 2024, pencil

Benji responded to the prompt, what do you want people on the outside to know about prison? Referring to his piece Benji writes, “it has a prisoner sitting in a chair – you see him from the back, kind of caddy-corner, he’s half in a cell, and half in a mountainous wilderness with grass and it’s basically how prisoners are in jail but emotionally live on the outside n dream as well. 

8. End Death by Incarceration, Angela Hellman, 2020, colored pencil and pen on manilla envelope

Hello my name is Angela Hellman. I’m 33 and currently incarcerated @ SCI Muncy. Art has been a huge piece of my sanity as I’ve spent several years of my life imprisoned, both as a juvenile and most of my adulthood. It’s my escape. My passion for both art and poetry come from unspeakable pain and often loneliness, but I find that I’m at my best while at my worst. While I may not be a victim of life behind bars, I still feel an obligation to myself and others to speak up and fight for what is right…

Just because I’m not waking in those shoes don’t mean I haven’t felt them out for size. 

This piece speaks for itself as a woman with a life sentence visits with her daughter and grandchild sick and immobile but still forced to spend her final days of life talking through glass without the comfort of physical contact. 

Front Right Wall

9. Grow Where You Are Planted, Nichole Pariah Hollingsworth, 2020, pencil

I dedicate my piece to my best friend “50” here at FCI-Aliceville. She is the definition of growing where you’re planted and has bloomed into a beautiful woman despite her circumstances. Nichole was released from Aliceville late last year! Stay Free Nichole! 

10. Who learns from this? By James Marschner, 2020, pen and pencil 

11. What We Lose by Elena House-Hay, 2020, watercolor

Elena writes: My piece is about the hardships that women experience in prison. We are challenged and depleted in mind, body, and spirit, sometimes by those who are tasked with taking care of us. The building represents the DOC and the industrial factory of flesh that it is. The text in the windows comes from common phrases I’ve heard from nurses, guards, and other staff. I chose the words because they are both invalidating and routine. The hand and words outside the building represent the experience of outside family as they witness the process of incarceration. Lastly, the cold claws reaching out of the building are symbolic of the heartless ingress and egress to and from the system that has left many people feeling as though their flesh and life has been stripped away. The purple skin tone is meant to make the figures universally relatable.

Elena is an incarcerated artist in Pennsylvania. Her work focuses on madness, systemic repression, and the promise of abolition. She works in tandem with PeoplesHub, Let’s Get Free, and various prison advocacy zines and newsletters. Elena is committed to drawing attention to the flaws of the prison-industrial complex and to the humanity of those held in state-sponsored captivity.

Elena has an instagram account: @elenahousehey 

12. Q-Bert Cells by Matt Mateo, 1999, acrylic on canvas

Matt Matteo is known across the PA prison system for his amazing art skill. He has been out of prison for sometime. Alan and etta discovered three of Matt’s paintings at the Green Beacon gallery in Greensburg, PA and have been looking for Matt ever since. If you know him, please connect us. 

13. Doors of Freedom, Cyd Berger, 2023, crossstitch

Cyd was recently denied Commutation for the 5th time. Cyd is a survivor of human trafficking, domestic violence, and she was not the lead actor in the violence that occurred, in fact she was not even in the room.She has spent over 40 years in prison. 

Please listen to the youtube video created by Mary Dewitt  with the voice of Cyd overlaid with Mary Dewitt painting her portrait. 

14. Wolf, Todd “Hyung Rae” Tarsell, 2017, digital print of acrylic painting on leaf   

Hyung-Rae also known as TR is famous for his incredible paintings on leaves that fly across the fences into his reach. He calls them his contraband series. You can read more about TR on Let’s Get Free’s Prison Advisors page. TR is among the over 5,100 sentenced to die in PA’s prison with a Life Without Parole sentence. TR has an Instagram page: @toddhyungraetarselli   

15. This Time Is Killing Me, Duane Montney, 2020, graphite and charcoal

This highly symbolic and conceptual piece came to us like many pieces of our permanent collection during the beginning of the pandemic for our show called, End Death by Incarceration. One must really study this piece to get all the references. You can see a nod to the corona virus at the top right with the grim reaper wearing a crown, his breath filled with the spheres of virus. He wears a key around his neck symbolizing freedom will only come to you in death. A giant clock is biting an aging woman’s back while eating legal motions and commutation applications. The word “Hope” is tattooed on the woman’s knuckles as she clenches the railing of her bed. Duane and etta have been collaborating on art projects for almost 15 years AND as of November 2023 Duane walked out of a Michigan prison after 30 years of a juvenile life sentence. Welcome home Duane! 

He has been collaborating with members of Let’s Get Free since 2005. 

16. An Untimely Death, Shonda Walter, 2020, Ballpoint pen and manilla folder   

Shonda writes: “To tell you the truth I really struggle with the thought of entering the contest and everyone around me was scrambling to submit work and honestly, I’ve been at odds with my skill level and didn’t feel like i had the ability to produce anything worthy. So i thought about it and while sketching a tattoo for someone a light hit me and I was all in. This is what I’ve felt like my 17 years in prison. I survived death row to still be crushed by the sands of time of a life sentence without parole.”

Shonda is serving a life sentence at SCI Muncy, one of the two women’s prisons in Pennsylvania.

17. BLM by Angela Hellman, 2020, colored pencil and pen

Originally I put together the BLM piece without knowing the topic of the contest (End Death By Incarceration) however, it speaks loudly on the movement that is currently going on. So I would like to submit it considering that African American men and women all over the country are being targeted and are losing their lives at the hands of police, correction officers, judges, etc, inside and outside of prison Death By Incarceration upon arrest and while incarcerated, in holding cells (Sandra Bland) and so on.

Angela was released from prison in 2023. Stay Free Angela! 

18. Be Not Afraid of Change, Latosha Gross, 2018, cross stitch

This profound cross stitch came to Let’s Get Free after the deadline of our Glow Home. this was the beginning. Latosha has participated in every art show since, winning the prize for her beaded embroidered cross stitch in 2022. It  titled Empathy is the Seed. 

Latosha is serving a life sentence at SCI Cambridge Springs. 

19. Touch by Bruce Bainbridge, 2023, acrylic on paper

Bruce has been in community with Let’s Get Free since 2018. Over the years he has created delightful sculptures out of popsicle sticks, a picnic table, a series of finger paintings and abstract art. This piece Touch won the LGF 2023 contest for the “Piece that embodies solidarity”  

Bruce is also featured in Howard Zehr’s book Still doing Life: 22 Lifers 25 Years Later. This book is in our library and you can look up Bruce’s portrait. View a webinar with Howard Zehr about the book here. 

Bruce is Still doing life at SCI-Phoenix.

20. Who Holds the Key to Your Heart? by Anntonésa Woodard, Pen and pencil

Look closely at this tender pencil drawing. Can you see the light streaming through the bar? A key is hanging from a wall, a heart locked in a cage, but who locked up the heart? Is the key in reach of the woman? Who locked up her heart? What is keeping her from unlocking the cage of her heart? 

21. Depression by Matt Mateo, 1999, acrylic

Matt Matteo is known across the PA prison system for his amazing art skill. He has been out of prison for sometime. Alan and etta discovered three of Matt’s paintings at the Green Beacon gallery in Greensburg, PA and have been looking for Matt ever since. If you know him, please connect us. 

22. Bird Free Cage by Marsha Scaggs, 2019, cross stitch

Marsha Scaggs made this crosstitch as a present for Let’s Get Free. etta loves how the birds are outside the cage. She can’t get enough of an empty cage. Marsha is on Let’s Get Free’s prison advisory board and was unjustly denied her plea for commutation of a life sentence  in 2023. 

24. Move at the Speed of Trust by Devon Cohen, 2021, digital print of paper cutting

When thinking about the theme “Empathy is the Seed, Truth is the Water, Solidarity is the Bloomage,” this quote from adrienne maree brown really stuck in my mind: “Move at the speed of trust.” What we build is not separate from how we build. The image in this paper cutting is of a carrier crab (Dorippe frascone) carrying a red urchin (Astropyga radiata). The carrier crabs hold the urchins above their backs to protect themselves from predators, and the urchins get a ride to different feeding locations much faster than they would move on their own. These two creatures have learned about each other, and share their gifts with one another–the urchin sharing the gift of their protective poisonous spines, and the crab sharing their gift of speedy locomotion. For me their relationship is a beautiful realization of the idea “move at the speed of trust,” both figuratively and literally.

Devon is one of the co-founders of Let’s Get Free.

25. Peace by etta cetera 2018, letter from Robert Sugarbear Clark & Sierra Club Calendar 

Peace was the way Sugarbear signed off his letters and the letters are made from a letter of sugar bear. This was part of an installation called Sewn Greetings for the the Letters and Liberation Show in 2018.There are twenty three different greetings sewn onto old calendar images. Our permanent collection has eight. 

In many cases the letters used to create the phrase were directly from the person who signed off their missives in the sentiment shown. Sewing support from Emily Cross, Miriam Greenberg, Leslie Stem and Alina del Pino. Thanks also to Randy Francisco for old calendars.

26. Palestine by Hedaya, 2023, fine art giclee print of watercolor

Hedaya writes: “The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.” – James Baldwin

As artists we have a role to reveal the truth through our art. To show the world as it is and be a voice for the voiceless. To speak from the heart to the heart. All proceeds from this print were donated to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund to aid the victims in Gaza.

27. Forever and a day by Ulric Joseph, oil and plexiglass on wood and masonite 

Ulrich is a Pittsburgh based artist and chef who was born in Trinidad. He donated this piece to Let’s Get Free’s Picture a Free World Show and then gifted it to us at the end. WE HIS WORK. Ulric has a vegan trinidadian restaurant in the North Side called Shado Beni where you can see a lot more of his artwork and eat delicious food. Ulric was connected to us through Bekezela Mguni. 🖤

Instagram: @ulric_joseph
Website: https://ulricjoseph.com/

Back Wall 

28. Life Without Parole by Augustin Gallardo 2005, pencil

This illustration and Augustin’s self portrait are all that is left of the Prison Poster Project. A five person artist collective who set out to create a teaching tool about the prison system, designed in collaboration with and illustrated by people in prison. You can see the zine that was created to accompany a series of artwork that was meant to be a slide show, complete with quotes from prisoners to accompany the narrative.The overall concept had a cross-section of a prison with different issues in each cell.

Augustin’s cell deals with the criminalization of youth as well as excessive sentencing that creates nursing homes in prisons across the country. In the reflection of a pocket watch a young boy in boot camp attire sees their reflection as an old man. An elder is seated on the bunk with the shadow of “life” between his feet. On the wall in the shadow of a cross, are pictures of generations of family growing up and changing without him. 

Pennsylvania sentenced more juveniles to life without parole then anywhere else in the world. In 2016 the practice of sentencing teenagers under 18 to life sentences was found unconstitutional and many of our friends have since been released. You can see Paulette Carrington in one of the videos. 

In 2005 Augustin was incarcerated in Corcoran, California. We have looked for him over the years but have never been able to find. Let’s hope that means he is free! Alixa Garcia, Naima Pennimen, Eric Ruin, Andalusia Knoll and etta cetera made up the outside team. 

29. Self Portrait by Augustin Gallardo 2005, pencil

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30. Maasi Warrior, Dominic Newsome, 2023, acrylic on canvas [on loan from yvette shipman]

Dominic writes: I’ve been locked away since Jan 1st 1990 in the state of Maryland, and transferred to PA in Nov 2000 due to a riot in the MD DOC that I started in 1997. And the PA DOC held me in “the hole” or RHU from Nov 2000 til 2018. (19 years) So I never had REAL art supplies to work with, only a jail issued pencil and ink pen, so I learned how to use basic tools and combine the pencil and pen as one, and you’ll see the results. 

January 1990 was when my freedom was lost and I chose to become one of the most violent prisoners in the history of the state of Maryland. So due to a prison riot and convictions of trying to murder a couple of prison guards, I was sent to the PA DOC from the MD Supermax in November 2000, and only got released from the RHU from general pop around July 2019. 

I control my violent urges with my artwork, the amount of detail I use in my art forces me to remain calm and complete the task at hand. I’ve lost time working on my art skills because I was so caught up trying to destroy anyone and everyone in my path. Never again.

Dominic is incarcerated at SCI-Fayette and has been collaborating with Let’s Get Free since 2020. This piece is on loan from yvette shipman. 

Films

Wide Open by Wren Rene [2020 — 7 minutes] 

Tamika Bell, Paulette Carrington and Starr Granger were sentenced to die in Pennsylvania when they were teenagers. After decades in prison, over 90 years collectively, Tamika, Paulette and Starr were released after the US Supreme court ruled that sentencing youth to life without parole was unconstitutional.

This short film poetically depicts some of what the transition home from prison has looked and felt like. This film is part of a multi-media campaign uplifting women and trans people serving death by incarceration in Pennsylvania called Life Cycles Toward Freedom a collaboration with Let’s Get Free and the Women Lifer’s Resume Project.

Wide Open was directed by Wren Rene in collaboration with the People’s Paper Co-op with guidance by Faith Bartley and Debbie Africa. Soundtrack by Shuggie Otis called “Freedom Flight”. This film was financially supported by The Open Society Foundation, The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Gender Justice Fund and The Village of Art and Humanities. 

Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/Ot1AL9lKmcg?si=Wy3PXr6BHT9sfosr

You Deserve Better Than Prison: Messages to Youth from Women Serving Life
by Tusko Films [2020—4 minutes]

The topic of this film was the idea of Avis Lee who is currently awaiting a public hearing that will decide her freedom. The desire to protect young people from similar paths is echoed throughout PA prisons and this piece showcases many voices, including family members and formerly incarcerated women who were sentenced to die as young people.

You Deserve Better Than Prison was created by Tusco Films for Let’s Get Free & The Women’s Lifer Resume Project. This film was financially supported by The Open Society Foundation.

Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/sO20jhgVU9o?si=0qLoRfOIaveyFXVp

We Are More Than Our Worst Day by Tusko Films [2020—12 minutes]

This poignant vignette features the transformative journeys of Tequilla Fields and Tameka Flowers who are both seeking commutation from life sentences. This film radiates resilience and the power to change that is widespread amongst people with death by incarceration sentences.

We Are More Than Our Worst Day was created by Tusco Films for Let’s Get Free & The Women’s Lifer Resume Project. This film was financially supported by The Open Society Foundation.

Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/siA4Avw2eV8?si=opWXT378XwbnBm2X

Festive Flags inspired by Méxican traditional Papel Picado

These strands of flags printed on letters from prisoners are inspired by Papel Picado the traditional Mexican paper cut festival flags. Each strand is unique with 8 – 12 prints per strand from 7 different artists. All stencils printed by etta and screen prints by Devon and etta

Contributing artists: 

Oscar Garcia from Puebla City in Mexico – Justicia Natural,  Screen Print of Lino cut
(image is square)
Esme Juarez from Puebla City in Mexico – No Mas Mentiras,  Screen Print from Lino cut (circular with pink and purple
Daniel Nielson from San Francisco living in Pittsburgh– Mary stencil –
(with traditional Méxican style border)
Thea Ghar from the West Coast– 3 Color Stencil with women creating community,moon tree and
bird
etta cetera bride of Pittsburgh– crayon rubbings from graves (horses and leaves and flowers)
Devon Cohen from Pittsburgh – Sending love across the walls stencil
Ally Reeves from Pittsburgh – Postage stamp with open window and FREE stencil

What about the Letters?

Every art piece created with letters is an earnest request for redemption, release, accountability and reunification, of self, of systems. The transformation of the letters is a spiritual practice. It was time for the energy imbibed with the spirit of the writers to leave the shoeboxes from which they lay and be free.

Letters are an everyday part of being in prison or having a loved one incarcerated. Letters are instrumental in organizing for justice with people in prison. Letters are conduits for relationships. Letters can be the only tangible thread connecting people to their loved ones. And if you don’t throw those letters away for 18 years, you can collect quite a few. Inspiration for this show came when etta cetera, co-founder of Let’s Get Free, was searching for a creative way to release the hundreds and hundreds of letters she has amassed over years of maintaining friendships with people in prison and organizing for justice in the prisons.

Many of the letters were sent to different prison justice organizations in Pittsburgh – Book ‘Em, Prison Poster Project, HRC-FedUp, and Let’s Get Free. Most of the letters you will see in the artwork created are letters sent in friendship to etta from:

Saleem Holbrook – Free
Jerome Coffey
Eric Wildcat Hall
Avis Lee – FREE
Frank Reid – Free
Russell Shoatz – Passed away with 58 days in Freedom 2021
David Kurtzman – Free
Donald Singleton
Davey Shark
Reginald ‘Aziz’ Barnes – Free
Todd Hyung Rae Tarselli
Leonard Jefferson – FREE
Nuno Pontes – Free
Richard Khalifa Diggs – Passed Away Dec. 2017
Duane Motney – FREE
Michael Cinque Upchurch
Shakaboona- FREE
Sugarbear
Michale Anderson
Antoine Thomas – Free
Jimmie “Big Jah” Greer – Free
Timothy “Crust”Browne – Free
Charmaine Pfender

Abolitionist Expressions presents the Let’s Get Free permanent art collection featuring art made by people in prison as well as artists in solidarity from outside of prison. It chronicles the current moment of abolitionists through drawings, paintings, prints, cross-stitch, banners, and poetry. The artworks explore personal stories that express political yearnings and aspirations for the future. 

Let’s Get Free is a Pittsburgh-based organization working to end perpetual punishment and build a pathway out of prisons and back into our communities. Let’s Get Free accomplishes its goals through commutation reform, supporting successful possibilities for people formerly and currently incarcerated, and shifting to a culture of transformative justice. Over 73,000 people in Pennsylvania are currently incarcerated with 5,100 people sentenced to Death by Incarceration (also known as Life Without Parole). Let’s Get Free’s many activities, including its annual art show, is centered on the liberation of people behind bars.

Let’s Get Free’s permanent collection is an organizing tool bringing people together to reflect upon the conditions of prisons and their function in PA. The collection is meant to be borrowed and to travel, lifting the voice of people in prison and creating dialogue with audiences everywhere it goes. The collection has been gathered through the last five years of Let’s Get Free’s annual art show and over ten years collaborating with artists in prison. The biggest bulk of the work came from Let’s Get Free’s 2020 End Death By Incarceration themed exhibition. Let’s Get Free continues to add pieces to the collection.

Many of the frames used in this collection were inherited from Carmen Cabadilla.

We hope this exhibition will inspire you to action. Support people in prison by becoming a volunteer, writing letters to your local representative, or donating to Let’s Get Free.