Envisioning Justice Compendium
Envisioning Justice Compendium
Illinois Humanities
Sixty inches from center
Kiki Lechuga-dupont
In August 2019, Illinois Humanities commissioned Candor Arts to design and produce an edition of 2000 copies of a compendium for their Envisioning Justice initiative to be distributed for free at the Envisioning Justice exhibition. All illustrations were made by Kiki Lechuga-Dupont.
Envisioning Justice leverages the arts and humanities to envision alternatives to the enduring injustice of mass incarceration. This Illinois Humanities initiative works with communities and people impacted by mass incarceration to spark conversation and illuminate community-based strategies that address our racist and unjust criminal legal system.
From 2017 to 2019, Envisioning Justice was concentrated in Chicago. Moving forward, Illinois Humanities is expanding this initiative and its attendant activities throughout the state. As a part of this next phase of Envisioning Justice, we will host and document community conversations, provide grant opportunities, and commission projects by artists and humanists working to shift the narrative around incarceration and system impacted communities.
Illinois Humanities acknowledges that people and communities affected by the criminal legal system are driving this movement for change, and we are committed to supporting their efforts to bring public awareness to issues of systemic racism and injustice inherent in mass incarceration through arts and humanities programming. We also seek to strengthen the networks, organizations, and resources they need to continue making a difference.
