Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
77 Forest Street
Hartford, CT 06105
860-522-9258
info@stowecenter.org
Join the Stowe Center to make Revolutionary mortar out of a mixture of cotton, tobacco, and sugar cane mixed with CT lime to form the furniture in the Solitary Garden, and then help plant the seedlings and seeds to grow this 6’x9’ garden that is an art installation by jackie sumell and the Stowe Center to teach about the horrors and hope for recovery of prisoners held in these torturous conditions in CT and nationally. The project draws links to chattel slavery practices, slave labor conditions currently underway in the industrial prison system, as well as the inhumanity of this practice. Participants should dress for gardening and bring heavy duty work gloves. The program will include an introduction and discussion of the art piece and the materials.
Free, but limited space. Registration is required.
More details COMING SOON.