by Ruth Poor
PNAP and Love & Protect collaborated to put on an outdoor artmaking and quilting event hosted at the Haymarket House on July 13th. Community members joined together in building a communal seed quilt to be installed outside of Logan Correctional Center. The event featured sashiko embroidery, papermaking, sewing seeds, and message writing on the quilt.
This portrait project began in May of 2021, when PNAP staff member and SAIC art history professor, Jason LaFountain, invited SAIC students, Ruth Poor and Helen Sanchez-Cortes, to create painted portraits of our current UWW degree students at Stateville prison. It is the first of a series of special projects Jason will organize as part of his work at PNAP.