Looking Inside: Voices from the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
February 9 - March 2, 2025 Get ticketsLast fall a group of writers from the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility engaged with the exhibition Jonathan Becker: Lost Time. Under the guidance of KMA writer in residence Pamela Hart, the women considered connections between poetry and photography. They studied elements of photography such as angle, depth of field, lighting, and framing as strategies that support and emphasize aspects of the narrative writing process. Participants then wrote ekphrastic poems(writing in response to visual art) in a variety of forms.
As one writer explained, “the freedom to think about what was on my mind through a photograph helped me to explore the depths of my imagination.”
The 12-session workshop included creative writing exercises, close readings, and discussion of poetry, along with careful looking at reproductions of select artworks from the exhibition.
Looking Inside is part of the Katonah Museum of Art’s Building Bridges: Prison Arts Initiative, now in its fourth year. This program is delivered in collaboration with Rehabilitation Through the Arts, which for 25 years has brought arts education to six New York State correctional facilities.
The Katonah Museum of Art is proud to be a grantee of ArtsWestchester with funding made possible by Westchester County government with the support of County Executive George Latimer, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor, and the New York State Legislature.
