Imagining Abolitionist Futures is a year-long Hurford Center initiative exploring the role of the arts and humanities in the struggle to dismantle the carceral state and build reparative practices and institutions in the place of a system driven by racism, retribution, and violence.

The series will include: talks and panel discussions with scholars, activists, and artists; performances; film screenings; a reading group; a major art exhibition; a two-day symposium; and more.

Strange Truth 2022/2023 explores the non-fiction imagination in films by Lisa Rovner, So Yun Um, Brett Story, and Nia Dacosta.

All Events held at Haverford College, Lightbox Theater at University of the Arts, & Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Fall 2022 & Spring 2023

September 2 – October 7, 2022: Hee Sook Kim’s survey exhibition Surfacing explores the richly painted and encrusted surfaces of her canvases and how these techniques and painterly strategies express the artist’s personal history, nostalgia, cultural affiliation, and moments of rebellion and resistance against systems that restrict reflection, growth, and healing.