Join us for a free screening of the 2024 documentary: Paint Me a Road Out of Here.
Featuring artists Faith Ringgold and Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Paint Me a Road Out of Here uncovers the whitewashed history of Ringgold’s masterpiece, “For the Women’s House,” following its 50-year journey from Rikers Island jail to the Brooklyn Museum in a poignant, funny, and true parable of a world without mass incarceration.
Short Synopsis:
In 1971, artist Faith Ringgold created a monumental painting “For the Women’s House” for the women incarcerated at Rikers Island jail. Fifty years later, artist Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, who gave birth in prison 15 years ago, finds herself banding together with an eclectic group of activists, politicians, artists, corrections officers and Faith Ringgold herself to free the artwork with the ultimate goal of freeing the women. Paint Me a Road Out of Here is a wild tale of the painting’s whitewashed journey and the two artists who challenged the same powerful and oppressive institutions, a half century apart, with their artwork, their voices and their shared, persistent goals.
The screening will be followed by a talk back with Joseph Lascaze of The Sentencing Project, and Ophelia Burnett, Founder of O So Beautiful: The Women's Reentry Initiative.
This event is part of the City of Keene's Juneteenth Celebration, and is brought to you by The City of Keene Human Rights Commitee, the Keene Family YMCA, and W.S. Badger Company.
All 2025 Juneteenth events are sponsored in part by Savings Bank of Walpole Mascoma Bank, and MONIFF.
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