THE MEDIA AND MASS INCARCERATION
Artist’s Name: JOSEPH DOLE
Artist’s Comments About the Piece: I wanted to display America’s love affair with inhumane life sentences and the media’s complicity in it, and what better way than to use America’s most beloved media mogul – Oprah Winfrey – to make the point.
Artist’s Description of Himself: I am an activist artist in that I solely produce art as an act of resistance or in support of some cause.
Mediums Used in This Piece: Sharpie markers, Chameleon markers, and watercolor paper.
For more context, read our introduction to this 30-day project.
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Image Credits: Joseph Dole, Stateville Correctional Center
See more of Dole’s work in the Independent’s previous Parole Illinois profiles: https://neiuindependent.org/21204/specials/day-10-of-30-parole-illinois-art-profiles/
https://neiuindependent.org/21368/specials/day-28-of-30-parole-illinois-art-profiles/
https://neiuindependent.org/21371/specials/day-29-of-30-parole-illinois-art-profiles/
