Stories behind bars
By: was created by Tona Wilson ...
Contributors: Women's Studio Workshop; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Published by Womens' Studio Workshop
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Rosendale, New York]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781893125704
Subjects: Artists' books; Immigrants in art; Prisoners; Legal status, laws; Immigrants; Government policy; Emigration and immigration
Work titles: Short stories
Notes: Title from colophon in Acronyms & sketches.

"Stories Behind Bars was inspired by the author's job as a Spanish interpreter in the US courts. It consists of four individually bound silkscreen printed booklets: in one, a young man is deported using video teleconferencing, another gives some brief history of immigration detention, and all tell stories of immigrants in U.S. prisons and jails. The stories give the reader an insight into the complex issues surrounding the immigration debate. The four separate pamphlets are housed in a slipcase with a barred window. Silkscreen printed."--Womens' Studio Workshop website, http://wsworkshop.org/ , viewed October 29, 2010.

"Stories Behind Bars is a book in four parts. They are: In jail tonight, Being removed, Clippings for Amalia, and Acronyms and sketches. The book is silk screen printed on Stonehenge warm white and Dur-O-Tone papers."--Colophon, found in Acronyms & sketches.

The four individual parts are single, sewn gatherings in a gray cloth-covered slipcase.  The front of the slip case is cut out, with black bars underneath, to resemble a jail cell. The illustration of a prisoner (found on the back cover of each of the booklets) appears through the bars.

LC copy is no. 14 of an edition of 50 copies, and is autographed by the artist.

Description and digital images of this object available on the Women's Studio Workshop Archive website: http://wsworkshop.org/archive_item.php?ID=3145