ABSTRACT
In 2013, we began a teaching project involving art students at two colleges and men who had been sentenced to death in Tennessee. Often directed by intentions of the men inside, we offered instruction in art skills and staged dialogues between art students at the college and the students. As time went on, we curated exhibitions (in Tennessee and New York) and gave public lectures as the project took on an activist character. Even as this project developed outside traditional academic institutions, it evolved to envelop and include them.
