密歇根州大急流城艺术博物馆举办的三场展览，展现了被监禁者的人性，并赞颂了创造力的韧性。美国拥有近200万囚犯，是全球监禁人数最多的国家。
A trio of shows at Michigan’s Grand Rapids Art Museum humanizes people who are incarcerated and celebrates the resilience of creativity With nearly 2 million people behind bars, America is the global leader in incarceration.
从人均来看，美国的监禁率在所有独立民主国家中位居第一，在全球排名第四，仅次于萨尔瓦多、古巴和土库曼斯坦。尽管这些数字令人不安，但大规模监禁在很大程度上是隐形的。
When you look at it per capita, we have the highest rate of incarceration of any independent democracy and rank fourth overall in the world, just behind El Salvador, Cuba and Turkmenistan. Despite these troubling numbers, mass imprisonment is largely invisible.
密歇根州大急流城艺术博物馆的助理策展人泰拉·沃伦（Terra Warren）指出：“我们的监禁系统是我们作为一个社会试图与日常生活隔离开来的东西。”
她与策展人詹妮弗·威塞尔（Jennifer Wcisel）一起，为观众带来了朱莉·格林（Julie Green）、加里·泰勒（Gary Tyler）和雷·马特森（Ray Materson）三位艺术家的个展。
“Our carceral system is something we as a society try to separate out from the everyday,” observes Terra Warren, an assistant curator at Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, who alongside curator Jennifer Wcisel brings audiences three solo shows from artists Julie Green, Gary Tyler and Ray Materson.
他们共同旨在让我们更仔细地审视监狱对我们社会的影响，以及艺术如何对被监禁者产生变革性的作用。
They collectively aim to make us examine more closely just what prisons are doing to our society – and how art can prove transformative to those incarcerated.