Paint Me A Road Out of Here

Screening + Discussion
October 5, 2025 / 2-4:30 pm
Metcalf Auditorium

Featuring legendary artist Faith Ringgold and artist/rapper Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, the documentary Paint Me A Road Out of Here uncovers the 50-year journey of Ringgold's iconic painting For the Women's House from Rikers Island to the Brooklyn Museum. This screening, part of RISD’s culture of civic engagement, is produced and directed by Catherine Gund. It presents art as a tool of liberation in this heartbreaking, hopeful, and funny parable for a world without mass incarceration.
Following the screening, join Dina Bruce, Deputy Director of OpenDoors, Anjel Newmann, Co-Executive Director of AS220, and Christopher Roberts, Schiller Family Assistant Professor in Race in Art and Design at RISD, to learn about creative and professional pathways for formerly incarcerated people living in Rhode Island and the transformative power of art to heal, empower, and inspire change.

Free. Registration requested.
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Paint Me A Road Out of Here (USA, 2024, 90 mins). Watch the trailer HERE.

Co-presented by OpenDoors, AS220, the RISD Museum, and RISD’s Center for Community Partnership.

OpenDoors is the first and the largest organization in the state of Rhode Island dedicated to helping people that have been in prison. In 2022, OpenDoors opened the first transitional house in Rhode Island specifically dedicated to helping women coming out of prison and in 2023, they opened the first such house for women and children.

For over forty years, AS220 has been a hub of art, education, and community in Rhode Island, where their award-winning Youth Programs offer arts education as an alternative for systems impacted youth from the RI Training School and elsewhere.

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