Worth It: An Open Letter to the People Who Donate to Arts Programs on Giving Tuesday

Thank you.

“I Am the Thief.” Digital Collage Art and Self-Portrait for the Right of Return Project: Flowers in a Field of Terror, Archival Pigment Ink Print, 2020.

My Story

On May 2, 2010, my car broke down, for the third time, on the side of the highway. Soon, an officer was knocking on my window and asking for my ID. I would spend 45 days in a county jail for a failure to appear warrant related to a bounced $24.87 check to a local grocery…