"Day Jobs" presents: Sara Bennett - A Full Length Audio Interview

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The Blanton Museum of Art brings you a new series of full-length audio interviews with contemporary artists whose works are featured in the blockbuster art exhibition "Day Jobs" ( Feb 19, 2023 - July 23, 2023). In each episode, listeners hear how an artist delves into the day job that spurred their creative growth.
In episode 2, Sara Bennett talks about her career as an artist and public defender based in Brooklyn, New York. After working as an appellate attorney for nearly two decades, Bennett began taking photographs and recording the stories of current and formerly incarcerated women. She hoped that the photographs - including the series The Bedroom Project and Life Inside - would illuminate the dignity and humanity of her sitters, and the pointlessness of long sentences and barriers to societal reentry.
Bennett has had solo showings at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, OR and Photoville in Brooklyn, NY. She has been a part of notable group exhibitions, such as Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration at MoMA PS1. You can find Sara Bennett online at sarabennett.org and @sarabennettbrooklyn on Instagram.
Learn more about Day Jobs here: blantonmuseum.org/exhibition/...
Featured Images: Sara Bennett, "TIANA, 25, in the library at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility", 2019, archival pigment print, 20 x 24 in., Courtesy of the artist (photo: © Sara Bennett)
Photo of Sara Bennett: © Cory Rice for the What is Photography project