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Book Launch & Poetry Workshop with Marilyn A. Donato & Maggie Hazen
Sunday, April 21 12pm - 2pm
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Border Patrol is pleased to welcome Marilynn Donato and Maggie Hazen, artist members of The Columbia Collective.
Since the summer of 2023, Border Patrol has been working with Maggie and Marilynn on designing and publishing Marilynn's first collection of poetry, She / Rose. Penned before and after Marilynn's experience inside of the New York State Columbia Secure Center for Girls, the poems chronicle the artist's struggles and triumphs. On Saturday, April 21st, Maggie will moderate a conversation with Marilynn before Marilynn will read a selection of poems. Following the reading, Marilynn will lead audience members in a paint chip poetry workshop where participants will be given a prompt and will have to formulate a response based on the paint chip colors that they selected. The resulting poems will be printed using materials in the gallery, and participants will be able to take them home. About Marilynn Donato Artist & writer M.A. Donato was born in Charolette, North Carolina in 2004. At age 19, she has already been through more the average young adult. At 13 she was placed in the Juvenile Justice System & remained in New York State custody for 3 years. Growing up she moved from place to place, the same thing applied to her time as she moved through five different detention centers. In May 2020 she was finally released. Since then her life has been a struggle, but she eventually graduated high school & picked up a new armature profession as a tattoo artist. During her time in juvenile detention, she used art & writing as a way to cope and to survive. “She/Rose” is not just poetry to her, it is her own thoughts & feelings. A journal she kept at one of the lowest points in her life. Personal struggles with mental health issues & body image have had a big impact on her life. This book has not only been a way for her to cope but is a way to show others that they are not alone. About Maggie Hazen Maggie Hazen is New York-based visual artist, activist, and experimental filmmaker. Her work has been exhibited, screened, and performed at the Bronx Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Tolerance, CICA Museum, South Korea, Granoff Center at Brown University, Pulse Miami Beach as part of Pulse Play, The Boston Young Contemporaries exhibition, and the Center for Photography at the University of California Riverside as part of Southern California’s Pacific Standard Time; among others. Current projects in her ongoing series of work The Legends of Spook Rock have evolved through personal collaboration with incarcerated individuals in New York State at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls, the Brookwood Secure Center for Youth, and the Shawangunk Correctional Facility which amplify the experiences of carceral space, aiming to address, disarm, and dismantle the complex dynamics in our systems of punitive power. In 2020 Hazen founded the Columbia Collective, an exhibiting group of emerging female/trans incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists dedicated to exercising their gifts of creative freedom. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, NYU, The Stevens Institute of Technology, The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, and as part of the Bard College Clemente courses in the humanities. She is a visiting artist-in-residence at Bard College in the Studio Arts program. She has studied at Brown University, MIT, and the European Graduate School. She holds a BFA from Biola University in California and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. About the Columbia Collective The Columbia Collective members are young female/trans artists who are currently or were formerly incarcerated. Each artist in the Collective uses a chosen pen name to abide by state confidentiality rules: Juste-a, Jay, Marshmallow, Marilynn, Rory Rei, and Toni. Together, the Columbia Collective channels creativity as a form of agency, humor as insurgence, and joy as resistance to imagine alternative togetherness. |
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Meg Hahn, Border Patrol Co-Founder
March 3 - March 18, 2024
Photo courtesy of Surf Point Foundation
Border Patrol Co-Founder Meg Hahn joins our Bakersfield, CA outpost as we prepare for April's launch of Book Store, a publication studio focusing on the works of formerly incarcerated and detained artists. In addition to producing texts by artists across the country, Hahn will be making work for Border Patrol's summer exhibition that explores the material history of khaki and its links to military and corporate ideologies.
Meg Hahn is a painter and arts worker in Portland, Maine. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME; the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME; BUOY, Kittery, ME; Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME; Dunes, Portland, ME; SOIL, Seattle, WA; Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and Collar Works, Troy, NY, among others. She has attended residencies at Surf Point Foundation, York, The Golden Foundation Residency Program, The Vermont Studio Center, Hewnoaks Artist Colony, and the Monhegan Artists’ Residency. She has also been a co-director at Border Patrol, a curatorial collective, since 2017. She received her BFA in Painting from Maine College of Art & Design.
Meg Hahn is a painter and arts worker in Portland, Maine. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME; the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME; BUOY, Kittery, ME; Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME; Dunes, Portland, ME; SOIL, Seattle, WA; Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and Collar Works, Troy, NY, among others. She has attended residencies at Surf Point Foundation, York, The Golden Foundation Residency Program, The Vermont Studio Center, Hewnoaks Artist Colony, and the Monhegan Artists’ Residency. She has also been a co-director at Border Patrol, a curatorial collective, since 2017. She received her BFA in Painting from Maine College of Art & Design.
18th Street Arts Center California Creative Corps is a pilot program funded by the California Arts Council as an engagement campaign designed to increase public awareness about issues of public health, water and energy conservation, civic engagement, social justice, and more. This activity is funded by the California Arts Council, a state agency.
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