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PAINT ME A ROAD OUT OF HERE
Post-Screening Q&A Co-Presented The Katal Center for Equity, Health & Justice
Wednesday, February 19
6:30
With filmmaker Catherine Gund, film participant/Exec. Producer Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Katal Center Organizing Director Melanie Dominguez, and Artist Russell Craig
Moderated by journalist Abigail Glasgow
The Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice develops intergenerational leadership and organizing capacity to build community-based power and win systemic change for equity, health, and justice. Our #ShutRikers campaign works to cut the correctional populations and the budgets used for caging people; shut down Rikers Island; and invest in real community safety: housing, health care, education, and jobs. Learn more at katalcenter.org and shutrikers.org.
Founder and Director of Aubin Pictures, Catherine Gund is an Emmy-nominated and Academy-shortlisted producer, director, writer and activist. Her media work focuses on strategic and sustainable social transformation, arts and culture, HIV/AIDS and racial, reproductive and environmental justice. Her films have screened around the world in festivals, theaters, museums and schools; on PBS, HBO, Paramount+, the Discovery Channel, Sundance Channel, Free Speech TV, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. In 2023, Gund won the Gracie Award for Documentary Producer. Her films include MEANWHILE, ANGOLA DO YOU HEAR US? VOICES FROM A PLANTATION PRISON (Academy shortlist), PRIMERA (HBO), AGGIE (Strand Releasing) and BORN TO FLY (Emmy nominated). She has served on several arts, media and justice nonprofit boards and has been a creative advisor on numerous documentary films. Gund is an alumnus of Brown University and the Whitney Independent Study Program. She has four children and lives in New York City.
Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, writer, pedagogue, and cultural worker based in Philadelphia, PA. As a visionary thought leader creating socially conscious music, film, performance, and visual art, her practice embodies resilience, care, and community-centeredness while working at the intersections of reproductive justice, black feminist thought, and transformative change. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally at venues including MoMA PS1, the African American Museum of Philadelphia, Frieze LA, Eastern State Penitentiary, and the Brooklyn Museum, among many others. Baxter has received numerous prestigious awards, including being an inaugural Right of Return fellow, Mural Arts Philadelphia Reimagining Reentry fellow, Leeway Foundation Transformation awardee, and a Soros Justice fellow. On February 2, 2024, Baxter received a Governors' Pardon from Josh Shapiro and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, honoring her transformative work in the arts and culture sector and her 17-year commitment to communal healing, advocacy, and repair.
Melanie Dominguez is the Organizing Director of the Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice. She prioritizes the need to uplift and amplify the voices of neighborhood residents directly impacted by the issues at hand. It is important to her that they know the true power they hold not just as individuals but as a collective to bring about change. As Katal’s Organizing Director, Melanie manages the organizing team, works to build the membership base, develops strong leaders, and trains new organizers. She played a key leadership role in the fight to pass New York’s historic Less Is More parole reform legislation and currently co-leads Katal’s campaign to shut down the Rikers Island Jail Complex.
Russell Craig (b. 1980, Philadelphia, PA) is a self-taught Brooklyn-based artist. Craig is the co-founder of Right of Return, USA, the first national fellowship dedicated to supporting formerly incarcerated artists. Craig is also a board member of the Center for Art and Advocacy. Craig’s work is a part of the Brooklyn Museum’s permanent collection and has been featured in numerous institutional exhibitions. Craig has recently won an Emmy for Best Art Documentary for his feature in MTV’s ART AND KRIMES BY KRIMES.
Abigail Glasgow is an abolitionist and journalist based in Brooklyn who covers the intersection of the criminal legal system with culture, arts, and design. She has bylines in Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, TIME, The Guardian, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Architectural Digest, and more.
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