Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy: Painting for Justice from Prison

About our Exhibition

In 2020, Rahsaan partnered with Flyaway Productions and the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) to create a multi-faceted project that asked how Black and Jewish voices can amplify the call for racial justice via an end to mass incarceration—Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy. As part of that project MoAD hosted an online exhibition titled Meet Us Quickly: Painting for Justice from Prison, featuring the work of twelve currently and formerly incarcerated artists from San Quentin State Prison. We hosted an auction for the artwork and MoAD compensated every artist for their participation in the exhibition. That was followed up with an outdoor dance performance by Flyaway Productions at CounterPulse in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco and was coupled with an in-person Meet Us Quickly: Painting for Justice from Prison exhibition and artwork sale by the incarcerated artists. 85 percent of all proceeds went directly to the artists.