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July 19, 2017
Photo by Z aChary s enn /
t he P ortland o bserver
Jerome Sloan and some of his artwork
he has on display for “Human Being,” a
collection of art giving humanity to the
state’s prison population, now on display
at the Pearl District’s Gallery 114, 1100
N.W. Glisan St.
Human Beings, Not Numbers
C ontinued froM P age 9
tute, which is located on the Ore-
gon-Idaho state line in Ontario, is
indicative of the isolation experi-
enced by prison inmates. Snake
River is the largest prison in Ore-
gon. Sloan, one of the featured art-
ists, is incarcerated at Snake River.
“You can’t drive to it without
a jeep in the winter,” said Slader.
“That isolation diminishes all of
us.”
Proceeds from Human Being
will go to support the featured
artists and the Oregon Justice Re-
source Center (OJRC), which is
dedicated to providing legal help
Obituary
In Loving Memory
Ethel Simon-McWilliams
Dr. Ethel Simon-McWilliams, an accom-
plished educational leader in Portland for de-
cades and the former chief executive of the
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory,
now known as Education Northwest, died July
12, 2017. She was 78.
A celebration of life service will be held Fri-
day, July 21 at 11 a.m. at St. Timothy Episcopal
Church, 3601 Alabama Ave. S.E. in Washing-
ton, D.C.
to incarcerated and formerly in-
carcerated Oregonians.
Alice Lundell, director of com-
munication for OJRC, says that
the proceeds they receive will go
toward the organization’s general
fund.
“We provide free legal services
to currently and formerly incar-
cerated people in Oregon,” Lun-
dell told the Portland Observer.
“We also work on broader issues
of criminal justice reform, trying
to make changes across the whole
system to create a better criminal
justice system for the state.”
Slader says that he hopes that
by exhibiting art created by incar-
cerated individuals, more every-
day Oregonians will acknowledge
the humanity of those who live
within the state’s prison system.
“If we can begin to accept that
these are human beings,” Slader
said, “then we can realize they that
need to be treated and acknowl-
edged as human beings.”
Human Being is currently
showing at Gallery 114, located at
1100 N.W. Glisan St. The exhibi-
tion is open through July 28.
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