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Order a copy of FRAUGHT IMAGINARIES
our new ANTI-CARCERAL COLORING BOOK today!

134pp softcover book,
including 44 tear-out coloring pages
8 x 10.5 inches
Limited edition of 125
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Fraught Imaginaries is a limited edition coloring book by artist Maggie Hazen and the Columbia Collective. This handmade publication, printed and bound in a limited edition of 125 in Shandaken Projects' print studio, presents an original text by curator Sofia Thieu D'Amico, an interview with formerly incarcerated organizer Lukee Forbes, and artwork made by Hazen and the Columbia Collective. It seeks to disarm the mechanisms of surveillance and control within the prison industrial complex through liberatory practices of play.

The coloring book, featuring line drawings by members of the Columbia Collective on tear-out pages, channels a visual lexicon of familiar prison objects into a new terrain of imaginative reality. Hazen describes this process as a world-building initiative that anticipates a decarcerated future.

Fraught Imaginaries gathers these works, for the first time, into an object that is also an invitation for participants to dream in concert with the artists of a wild, wonderful, and decarcerated reality.

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ABOUT

The Columbia Collective is a group of emerging female/trans incarcerated/formerly incarcerated artists exercising creative freedom across states of confinement, named for the maximum juvenile secure center in which they lived and worked. The group was founded by artist Maggie Hazen in collaboration with curator Sofia Thieu D’Amico.

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@ MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation
in collaboration with Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara

July - January, 2024

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ARTIST PORTFOLIOS

JUSTE-A

RORY REI

MARILYNN

TONI

MARSHMALLOW

JAY

SHE/ROSE

by M.A. Donato

Marilynn's first book, She / Rose, is a collection of poems written before and after the author's stay in the New York State Columbia Secure Center for Girls. A paint chip poetry workshop followed where participants crafted poems with the author using the names of paint samples.

Special thanks to Border Patrol, CA for printing and distributing the book and for hosting our panel discussion.

PAST EXHIBTIONS/EVENTS

2024 SHE/ROSE by Marilynn Donato @ Border Patrol
2024 Beyond the Margins @ Siena College
2023 Shandanken Projects Billboard Exhibition
2021 Talking Back Exhibition @ Foreland

Since the formation of the Columbia Collective, the group has exhibited and collaborated with Pioneer Works, Red Hook, NY; Moxi, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, Santa Barbara, CA; Siena College, NY; Boarder Patrol, Bakersfield, CA; Shandaken Projects, NY; The Athens Cultural Center, Catskill, NY; and Girls Inc., Santa Barbara, CA.