Pens to Pictures
Pens to Pictures
Pens to Pictures, a filmmaking collaborative that empowers incarcerated women to take their ideas from script to screen, presents an evening of short films and discussion.
FREE
MoMA online
January 28, 2021 | 6:30 pm
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Film details

Kamisha Thomas
BANG! (2016)
Tyra Patterson
Love or Loyalty (2016)
Jamie Ochs
Transparent (2016)
Beverly Fears
The Devastating Game (2016)
Aimee Wissman
For They Know Not (2016)

How to watch

Register in advance for a reminder of the live event, and to be notified when the films are available to prescreen.

Presented by

The Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY

About The Exhibition

This major exhibition explores the work of artists within US prisons and the centrality of incarceration to contemporary art and culture. Featuring art made by people in prisons and work by nonincarcerated artists concerned with state repression, erasure, and imprisonment, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration highlights more than 35 artists, including American Artist, Tameca Cole, Russell Craig, James “Yaya” Hough, Jesse Krimes, Mark Loughney, Gilberto Rivera, and Sable Elyse Smith. The exhibition has been updated to reflect the growing COVID-19 crisis in US prisons, featuring new works by exhibition artists made in response to this ongoing emergency.

On view across PS1’s first floor galleries, Marking Time features works that bear witness to artists’ reimagining of the fundamentals of living—time, space, and physical matter—pushing the possibilities of these basic features of daily experience to create new aesthetic visions achieved through material and formal invention. The resulting work is often laborious, time-consuming, and immersive, as incarcerated artists manage penal time through their work and experiment with the material constraints that shape art making in prison. The exhibition also includes work made by nonincarcerated artists—both artists who were formerly incarcerated and those personally impacted by the US prison system. From various sites of freedom or unfreedom, these artists devise strategies for visualizing, mapping, and making physically present the impact and scale of life under carceral conditions. Alongside the exhibition, a series of public programs, education initiatives, and ongoing projects will explore the social and cultural impact of mass incarceration.

Image: Still from Kamisha Thomas’s Bang! (2016)