Freedom Constellations /
NOKIDSINPRISON
Freedom Constellations is a series of multimedia interventions created in collaboration with Youth First Justice Collaborative campaigns organizing to end youth incarceration. The traveling NOKIDSINPRISON exhibition features 10 years of collaborations with directly impacted young people and includes immersive visual art, VR, AR, music videos and poetry mapping us toward collective liberation.
In each city, campaigns collaborate with local and national artists to design billboards and develop cultural strategy projects aimed at bolstering the power of their organizing goals.
All photos taken by Mark Strandquist.
The immersive NOKIDSINPRISON exhibition leads audiences from the School to Prison Pipeline to The History of Youth Incarceration in the US, to The State of Youth Incarceration as experiences through the perspectives of youth and their families. After hearing the stories of dozens of families and thought leaders, the future section envisions the possibilities revealed when young people are supported to express themselves with wholeness, to make mistakes and ground in the power of repair. The exhibition is an incredible container for meaningful programming and strategic organizing events that engage system stakeholders in deep conversations that inform their decisions when legislating on behalf of local youth.
Billboard artists arranged clockwise from left to right: Kai Yangni, Amir Khadar, Kate DeCiccio, Killjoy, all photos by Mark Strandquist
