[NH Supported Event] Far Beyond The Walls Exhibition

This event is supported with a grant from Nevada Humanities.

June - October 12, 2024 
Nevada State Prison (decommissioned) 
3301 Warmsprings Court 
Carson City, NV 89701

Image: Nevada State Prison yard, by Frances Melhop. 

Far Beyond The Walls is a deeply immersive exhibition that involves 22 artists, 7 solo exhibitions and 2 group shows. They will take place within the cell housing, medical and culinary spaces of the historic and recently decommissioned Nevada State Prison in Carson City, Nevada.

The objective and intention of this exhibition is to move public awareness towards an understanding of the issues surrounding incarceration in the US, both historically and currently. Visitors will experience aspects of this collective societal issue through the eyes of formerly incarcerated individuals and artists responding to the prison spaces through their own prisms and perspectives. The exhibition’s aim is to humanize those directly affected and open transformative channels for dialog. Far Beyond the Walls exhibition, is a collaboration between the Nevada State Prison Preservation Society, curator Frances Melhop, and Melhop Gallery º7077.

This program is funded in part by a grant from Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

For more information visit: https://www.melhopgallery.com/exhibitions-1/far-beyond-the-walls