Film screening of Paint Me a Road Out of Here
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm EDT
Location: FXB G13. Harvard ID required. Dinner and refreshments will be served.
Join the Women, Gender & Health Interdisciplinary Concentration at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights for Paint Me a Road Out of Here, by director Catherine Gund—a film screening about art, incarceration, and healing.
Paint Me a Road Out of Here exposes the violence and confinement of Rikers Island through the eyes and voices of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women who turn to art as resistance. Their poetry, painting, and movement become acts of survival and defiance—tools to reclaim their humanity in a system built to erase it.
Featuring a conversation with Jasmine D. Graves, MPH, an FXB student affiliate and PhD candidate in Population Health Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who dissertation is a “Requiem for Rikers,” concerned with the health of those incarcerated there and those who work there. She is an abolitionist strategist, working to dismantle carceral systems and imagine community safety.
Paint Me a Road Out of Here exposes the violence and confinement of Rikers Island through the eyes and voices of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women who turn to art as resistance. Their poetry, painting, and movement become acts of survival and defiance—tools to reclaim their humanity in a system built to erase it.
Featuring a conversation with Jasmine D. Graves, MPH, an FXB student affiliate and PhD candidate in Population Health Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who dissertation is a “Requiem for Rikers,” concerned with the health of those incarcerated there and those who work there. She is an abolitionist strategist, working to dismantle carceral systems and imagine community safety.
Speakers’ remarks are based on their own scholarship and experience. As such, they speak for themselves, not for Harvard University.