Chicago Urban Art Retreat Center

This project includes writings, art exhibit, documentary, a book. Will focus on art making & writing that show how incarceration has impacted families & communities who are related. Responding to the question - How we can use art to protest, process, & object to How Incarceration Affects Families & Communities? Along with offering written works & art that take up the subject, we will create a documentary, and post our outcome online to show our discussion of the ethics of representation, & what it means to write about and make art about this violence & trauma, neglect & damage of people incarcerated & their families/communities.

Show Title: Animal Agriculture Impacts The Environment

Animal agriculture produces 65% of the world's nitrous oxide emissions which has a global warming impact 296 times greater than carbon dioxide. Raising livestock for human consumption generates nearly 15% of total global greenhouse gas emissions, which is greater than all the transportation emissions combined.30% of the word’s total ice-free land surface is used to solely to support animals grown for meat, eggs or dairy products (source). In Australia more than 5% of the natural vegetation has been turned to grazing, primarily for cattle (source). In Brazil, 70% of all original rain-forest has been destroyed for grazing (source).