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LA: Artist Jackie Sumell designs a house based on the wishes of Angola prisoner Herman Wallace

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Artist Jackie Sumell designs a house based on the wishes of Angola inmate Herman Wallace Posted by Doug MacCash, Art critic, The Times-Picayune December 13, 2008 5:00AM PRISONER DREAMS UP A HOME THE HOME: The House that Herman Built THE OWNERS: Jackie Sumell and Herman Wallace THE SPACE: A Prospect.1 New Orleans exhibition featuring renderings of an imaginary house described by an Angola inmate and designed by a conceptual artist ON VIEW: At the Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., Wednesdays through Sundays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., through Jan. 18. WHY THEY LOVE IT: 'It gets people who would never talk about these issues to talk about them, ' Sumell says. Brooklyn-born Jackie Sumell has lived in New Orleans on and off since Hurricane Katrina...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 14, 2008 (boomark / email).