{"id":3118,"date":"2015-01-12T11:16:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T16:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2015-01-27T11:26:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T16:26:38","slug":"prison-art-discussion-highlight-of-elizabethtown-college-mlk-week-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2015\/01\/12\/prison-art-discussion-highlight-of-elizabethtown-college-mlk-week-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Art Discussion Highlight of Elizabethtown College MLK Week Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\"Martin<\/a>s a part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Week, taking place Jan. 19 through 23, Elizabethtown College hosts Ann Marie Kirk, director of Art for Justice, as she speaks about prison art and the partnership exhibit taking place at the College and at Philadelphia Free Library.<\/p>\n

Her talk, \u201cPromoting Justice & Humanity thru Art,\u201d begins at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23, in the College\u2019s Brinser Lecture Room in Steinman Center.<\/p>\n

The exhibit of prisoner art, which aims to stimulate public dialogue on how to prevent crime, reduce levels of incarceration and find effective, humane ways to improve the criminal justice system, is on display beginning Monday, Jan. 19, in the second-floor hallway of the College\u2019s Brossman Commons. The exhibit reception is scheduled for 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23.<\/p>\n

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His contributions are still being felt today.”<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

MLK Week started at Elizabethtown College in 2005 as a one-day celebration to commemorate the civil rights work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. \u201cElizabethtown College remembers his life, especially with the Day of Service,\u201d said Brandon Jackson, coordinator of multicultural programs and residential communities in the College\u2019s Residence Life office.<\/p>\n

The Day of Service is a nationwide opportunity for schools and businesses, closed on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, to take part in community service endeavors. At E-town, students spend part of the day at one of four organized service opportunities near Elizabethtown.<\/p>\n

The College also opens its doors to community members to participate in on-campus MLK events. \u201cAnytime you have a college in a community, you have access points for education, to college culture or arts programs that small towns might not have. \u2026 We are part of their community. They are part of our community. Our events are their events.\u201d A full list of MLK-related events is available online<\/a>. Those events open to the public can be found on the College\u2019s Arts and Culture calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Martin Luther King Jr.) is historical but not ancient,\u201d said Jackson, noting that the man’s inspiration and action, just 50 years ago, changed the course of history. \u201cHis contributions are still being felt today. Who is to say, if it had not been for him, where we would be now. \u2026 Thankfully we don\u2019t have to think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Week, taking place Jan. 19 through 23, Elizabethtown College hosts Ann Marie Kirk, director of Art for Justice, as she speaks about prison art and the partnership exhibit taking place at the College and at Philadelphia Free Library. Her talk, \u201cPromoting Justice & Humanity thru Art,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":3119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[775],"tags":[716,144,197,324,326],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","tag-brandon-jackson","tag-e-a-harvey","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-martin-luther-king-jr","tag-mlk-week","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3265,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions\/3265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}