Something to Hold On To:
Art and the Carceral System
Main Gallery
November 1, 2024–January 26, 2025
On display in VACNJ’s Main Gallery, Something to Hold On To: Art and the Carceral System sheds light on the vision, ingenuity, and hard-earned creativity of individuals, family members, and collaborators impacted by the United States carceral system. Many of the works in this exhibition give visual form to the experience of being incarcerated—the stark conditions, isolation, dehumanization, and loss of agency, while others are strident statements about societal and racial injustices All artists featured in this exhibition have ties to New Jersey, including Antionette Stephen, Cheryl Chen, Chris Wilson, the Contraband Scholars under the guidance of JD McGuire, Davi Russo, Gilberto Rivera, Jared Owens, and Todd (Hyung-Rae) Tarselli.
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