Lander University “Better Questions” Art Exhibit and Reception
October 15, 2025
About the Event:
This exhibit is an effort to ask better questions about the information that communities produce and amass to establish a collective memory about the prison industry in the United States. One question the artists want to keep asking is, “What are the consequences of giving someone a life sentence to prison?” The objects on view are from the artists’ own efforts to understand this question.
Christian Branscombe was incarcerated for 25 years, during which he was chairman of an art room for over a decade at Lancaster, California State Prison, where the artists and their work from this time contributed to charity, personal development and making amends to survivors of violent crimes.
Molly Ott is a South Carolinian whose work is preoccupied with rituals of Americana and personal myth. She works with nonprofits in Los Angeles County to bring visual art and creative writing programming to juveniles and adults within the prison system. She graduated from Lander University in 2017 and holds an MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder in sculpture and post-studio practice.
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