Jarvis' Work Featured in "The Writing on the Wall" Traveling Art Exhibit in Washington D.C. & Baltimore

An excerpt of Jarvis’ essay, “The Inmate and the Prison Guard or the Night the Walls Came Down” about the election of President Obama is now featured in a current art exhibit traveling through Washington D.C. and Baltimore. Publicly displayed in collaborative art and student communities, the exhibit runs through March 31, 2025.

”The Writing on the Wall” is a pop-up art installation produced by the Incarceration Nations Network (INN), a network popularizing prison reform efforts around the world with partners in over 50 countries. The latest iterative exhibit aims to raise public awareness of the political lives of those in prison and the massive electoral constituency that is unable to exercise the basic citizenship right to vote. The writings are curated by the American Prison Writing Archive Archive (APWA), now housed at Johns Hopkins University. Their collection of 4,000 essays and poems is the largest publicly accessible and searchable digital archive of modern prison writings .

Jarvis’ essay was previously published in “Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America” (2014) edited by Prof. Doren Larson, founding co-director of the APWA.