Assembly x Red Hook Community Justice Center

Since the summer of 2020, Assembly Fellows Amir Akram, Geremia Romain, Latham Butler and Darrell Santana with the mentorship of Artist & Co-Director Shaun Leonardo, have utilized a series of visualization and embodiment exercises that invite us to challenge our preconceived notions, while developing a historical understanding of policing. By collectively imagining and learning solutions for conflict, we hope to create a community that is able to establish safety without the use of coercion, policing and violence. First piloted with The Gallatin Galleries at NYU in early 2021, the work is now being conducted with youth enrolled in programming at the Red Hook Community Justice Center.