In a new exhibition, artists consider how a controversial policy of stop-and-frisk targeting people of color has affected their lives and those around them
Before the Philadelphia-based artist Russell Craig became a successful painter, he spent seven years in jail for non-violent drug crimes. Instead of throwing out all his court papers after he was released in 2013, Craig pasted these papers on canvas and used them as the basis for a self-portrait. “Art was completely necessary,” said Craig, who learned how to paint while behind bars. “It’s what got me through it. I really took to it because it was an escape.”
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