Pathway To Change : Adult Category
Annually since 2010, the Manitoba Multifaith Council Justice and Corrections Committee has sponsored an #art #contest for inmates incarcerated in Manitoba’s provincial correctional centres.
The goal of the contest is to encourage inmates to create artwork as a positive outlet to express themselves.
This year’s funders, Prison Fellowship Canada and the Multifaith Council asked for artwork which focused on "Pathway to Change."
The resulting exhibition of 38 drawings provides insight into what this theme meant to the incarcerated artists in their lives at the time.
The adjudicator for this year’s competition, AGSM Curator Lucie Lederhendler, spoke about how they selected the winning entry in the Adult Category:
“...What made 'Trust Me' my winner is what happens to the hand after #looking at it for a while. It stops making sense; its anatomy falls apart. It’s at once easy and difficult to look at, and that contradiction is really #interesting to me.
“It was extremely difficult to choose the winners of #Pathway to #Change because I found some of the stories so touching and #hopeful, and others challenging and #powerful.”
