Glassell Gallery, LSU School of Art, Shaw Center for the Arts, downtown Baton Rouge, November 14 –December 13, Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Saturday-Sunday, 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.:  Reception, Sunday, November 15, 6-8 p.m.

Juxtaposing portraits of prisoners, urbanscapes, and poetry, photographer Deborah Luster created Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish and collaborated with writer C.D. Wright on the One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana exhibition project to create awareness for the realities of incarceration and street violence.  The images and words reveal an aspect of existence on the fringes of society which is far removed from the distorted and often romanticized notions projected by the media.  As the Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. School of Art Endowed Lecture for 2009, C.D. Wright will give a reading of her poems on November 15th, at 5:00 p.m., in the Old State Capitol Building.

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