Glance at Culture - Anna D. Smith shares about Los Angeles Prisoner Artist Donald "C-Note" Hooker

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Cover art by Donald "C-Note" Hooker: top image "Cell Time" (2019); bottom image "During the Flood" (2017)
To learn more, please visit the sites for Donald "C-Note" Hooker and Art for Redemption.
Show Notes:
0:00 Anna D. Smith discussing C-Note Hooker’s artwork entitled “During the Flood”
1:20 Smith’s background
3:15 Smith’s work as a court advocate
4:00 Smith’s adoption of son, Emmanuel
4:45 Smith’s contact with artist Donald “C-Note” Hooker
5:55 Art for Redemption coffee book
6:10 C-Note’s work related to social justice
6:45 “During the Flood” aka “Count Time”
7:50 California prison built on flood-prone areas
8:45 compensation for incarcerated workers
11:00 Smith’s efforts to sell C-Note’s artwork
11:45 billboards “Incarceration Nation” and “Look Up Hope and Beauty”
12:20 “Colored Girl Warhol”
13:20 Billboard events to raise awareness about issues for the individuals in the system, the homeless, parolees
14:10 “Incarceration Nation”
14:50 misconceptions about individuals in the system
16:45 defining justice and amendment of the 13th Amendment
19:00 power of imagery to impact social awareness about issues with the system
20:30 legacy and need for connections
21:00 Martin Luther King’s inspiration to love one’s enemies
24:00 incarcerated individual who entered contest about rehabilitation
27:00 view of justice for Smith began with her father’s work as teacher of economics to those incarcerated
30:30 Vanity Fair article
32:00 importance of the arts in the system

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