FCI PromotionalForward Community Investments will get in on this year’s Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Gallery Night, featuring the work of feature art from artist DarRen Morris, who is currently serving a life sentence in the Columbia Correctional Institution.

On Gallery Night every spring and fall, dozens of galleries, coffee shops, offices and other spaces featuring visual arts open to showcase the local arts community.

The FCI office will feature dozens of paintings and drawings by Morris, as well as an artMorris2 talk with Judith Gwinn Adrian, Morris’s art curator and co-author with Morris of In Warm Blood: Prison and Privilege, Hurt and Heart at approximately 7:15 pm.

“In the years to come I want to create art that will help save youth from making thoughtless choices,” Morris says. “I also want to create art that will help you on the outside understand what we face on the inside-the very real need for prison reform in Wisconsin and elsewhere and the very real need to involve more people in working toward prisoner rehabilitation rather than punishment.”
Morris’s work is also featured in Overture Gallery III, on the third floor of Overture Center for the Arts in downtown Madison.
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