Special FREE Film: Paint Me a Road Out of Here

Paint Me a Road Out of Here uncovers the whitewashed history of Faith Ringgold’s visionary painting, “For the Women’s House,” and how its journey is bound to the fate of incarcerated women. 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.

Presented by Keene's Juneteenth Committee in partnership with the Colonial Performing Arts Center:
City of Keene Human Rights Committee, Keene YMCA & MONIFF

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