A series of art installations at Watkins Arcade Gallery created by students from the school in collaboration with death row prisoners at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, the latest Unit 2 exhibition opened in July. Social practice art is all the rage, but when the privileged decide to create with the disenfranchised, exploitation is often the result. Not so here. This heartbreaking wonder of a series exemplifies that one-word answer to this question: “How might artists best ply their trade in the name of social progress?” Service.
