Knox’s graduating senior English majors of 2024 cordially invite you to their senior symposium, The Rhetoric of Abolition, on Tuesday, March 5th.

Their research topics include both 19th-century and contemporary abolitionist texts. Presenters will be Karen Castro, Lola Chamberlain, Adam Gadiel, Allie Konopelski, Marli Messner, and Jessica Whalen.

Tuesday, March 5th, 2024
Alumni Room, Old Main 100
4:00 PM

A play by Lynn Nottage, directed by Dr. Deana Nichols.

In Clyde’s, a truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption. Even as the shop’s callous owner tries to keep them down, the staff members learn to reclaim their lives, find purpose, and become inspired to dream by their shared quest to create the perfect sandwich. Clyde’s is a comedy about power. And hope. And sandwiches.

Performances in Harbach Theatre (CFA): February 22-23, 2024 @ 7:30 p.m.; February 24 @ 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Between 2016-2018, artists, writers and members of the Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project created a series of thematic works around long-term sentencing policies. These projects emerged from classes and collaborative work at Stateville prison, where people are serving extraordinarily long prison terms. The Long Term utilizes a variety of mediums and visual languages to encourage social dialogue around issues of incarceration and the effects on people living under the weight of the justice system.

The Department of Art and Art History would like to invite the campus community to visit our new exhibit “The Long Term” in the Borzello Gallery. We want to acknowledge generous funding for the exhibit and for our upcoming educational programming from the “Abolition for All Time” grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The Long Term
Exhibit at the Borzello Gallery, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, Knox College
February 13 – March 12, 2024, weekdays 12:00 – 5:00 pm
Reception and Gallery Talk, March 1, 4:00 p.m.