Hank Willis Thomas and Dr. Baz Dreisinger

About

The Writing on the Wall is a shape-shifting, pop-up art installation made from writing by people in prison around the world, a partnership between Dr. Baz Dreisinger and Incarceration Nations Network; the acclaimed visual artist Hank Willis Thomas; the nonprofit architecture firm MASS Design Group; the production team Openbox; the creative agency Chemistry Creative; and the public art strategist Negative Space. In an effort to center the words of those directly impacted at the heart of the fight for prison reimagining, the installation has been displayed in public spaces as a form of verbal and visual intrusion. Each debut of The Writing on the Wall is an event and ongoing campaign, coordinated in collaboration with local and global justice organizations and demanding that worldwide we must heed The Writing on the Wall: #DefundThePrisons and invest in communities and peace. The Writing on the Wall is an artwork of Incarceration Nations Network (INN) @incarcerationnations a global network that supports, instigates and popularizes innovative prison reform efforts around the world. Partners in the Network span every continent and more than 50 countries.