September 9 – November 1, 2015
Artist’s Reception with Lori Waselchuk on Tuesday, October 13, 6:30 pm
Friday, September 25, 7 pm, there will be a special showing of the film “Music from the Big House.”
Photography and Hospice Quilts from Angola Prison in Louisiana. This extraordinary traveling exhibition combines the photography of Philadelphia artist Lori Waselchuk with hospice quilts created by the inmates of Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola Prison). The exhibit powerfully chronicles the prison’s nationally recognized hospice program. Started in 1998 by a staff nurse and inmate volunteers, the program was influential in transforming the prison’s attitude toward terminally ill inmates from “dismissive dishonor” to dignity and reverence.
Lori Waselchuk is a visual documentarian whose photographs have appeared in magazines and newspapers worldwide, including Newsweek, LIFE, The New York Times Magazine, and The Washington Post. Her work is exhibited internationally and is part of many collections including the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Portland Museum of Art and the South African National Gallery. Waselchuk is a recipient of the 2014 Leeway Foundation’s Transformation Award, the 2012 Pew Fellowship for the Arts, the Aaron Siskind Foundation’s 2009 Individual Photographer Fellowship, a 2008 Distribution Grant from the Documentary Photography Project of the Open Society Institute, the 2007 PhotoNOLA Review Prize, and the 2004 Southern African Gender and Media Award for Photojournalism. Waselchuk was also a nominee for the 2009 Santa Fe Prize for Photography, a finalist in the 2008 Aperture West Book Prize, and a finalist in the 2006 and 2008 Critical Mass Review.
Carmon Community Funeral Homes in Greater Hartford was co-sponsor of this exhibition.
CBS Radio’s WTIC-AM 1080’s “Face Connecticut” interview broadcast live on 10/11/15.
Artist Website loriwaselchuk.com
Lloyd Bones Drives the Funeral Hearse
