Courtney Bowles and Mark Strandquist have spent over a decade creating immersive exhibitions, interactive photo-based public art, and multimedia projects that have connected communities impacted by the criminal justice system with tens of thousands of viewers. Their work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and universities, as well as through parades, church-basement legal clinics, and illegal wheatpaste installations. They have received multiple awards, fellowships, national residencies, and reached wide audiences through the NY Times, BBC, the Guardian, NPR, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, PBS, VICE, and many others. Through fellowships from A Blade of Grass and Open Societies Foundation, they founded and co-directed the People’s Paper Co-op (PPC) and Reentry Think Tank in Philadelphia, PA. The PPC’s annual Free Our Mothers! Sisters! Queens! art campaign raised over $230,000 for the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund’s efforts to free Black mothers and caregivers for Mother’s Day. Their work is featured in the award winning books Marking Time, Walls Turned Sideways, and Angela Davis’s Abolition Feminism Now, and is in the permanent collections of museums and universities including the Free Library of Philadelphia, University of Florida, Tufts University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Yale University.