Performing The Movement: Damon Locks at University of Michigan

Damon Locks will do a short solo performance and speak about his work with Prison and Neighborhood Arts Project (PNAP) and the Black Monument Ensemble. In the Black Monument Ensemble, Damon Locks uses music and sound to connect the past and future of the civil rights movement. The Prison and Neighborhood Art Project provides arts and humanities courses to men at the Stateville Maximum Security Prison, where Damon Locks works as an artist educator.

Damon Locks is a Chicago-based visual artist, educator, vocalist/musician. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago where he received his BFA in fine arts...

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Damon Locks will do a short solo performance and speak about his work with Prison and Neighborhood Arts Project (PNAP) and the Black Monument Ensemble. In the Black Monument Ensemble, Damon Locks uses music and sound to connect the past and future of the civil rights movement. The Prison and Neighborhood Art Project provides arts and humanities courses to men at the Stateville Maximum Security Prison, where Damon Locks works as an artist educator.

Damon Locks is a Chicago-based visual artist, educator, vocalist/musician. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago where he received his BFA in fine arts. Since 2014 he has been working with Prisons and Neighborhood Arts Project at Stateville Correctional Center teaching art. He is a recipient of the Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Achievement Award in the Arts and the 2016 MAKER Grant. He operated as an Artist Mentor in the Chicago Artist Coalition program FIELD/WORK. In 2017 he became a Soros Justice Media Fellow. In 2019, he became a 3Arts Awardee. Currently, he works as an artist in residence as a part of the Museum of Contemporary Arts' SPACE Program, introducing civically engaged art into the curriculum at the high school, Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy.

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