Mary DeWitt

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2017 Art and Change Grant – $2,500

Neighborhood: Media
Change Partner: Paulette Carrington
Discipline: Media Arts, Visual Arts
Social Change / Intent: Ending war: militarization, criminalization, and mass incarceration, Feminism, Racial Justice

Mary will paint, fire, and install a tile mural portrait of Paulette Carrington in Philadelphia. An accompanying narrative will describe Paulette's case and her sentencing, at the age of 16, to 40 years of life without parole in Pennsylvania. More juvenile lifers are sentenced to life without parole in Philadelphia than any U.S. city. Paulette hopes to use the site of the tile portrait as a place to gather and share her experiences and struggle.

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