Learning at Lunch

The Lorton Prison Museum featuring the Lucy Burns Gallery at the Workhouse Arts Center is proud to present the third season of Learning at Lunch, a series illuminating aspects of the former prison’s 91-year history. Each month, we invite an expert to tackle a topic related to our complicated past. After a brief 30-minute talk, presenters answer audience questions, and all attendees are invited to visit the museum following the program. Table seating provided and attendees are encouraged to bring their own lunch; snacks and beverages available for purchase in the W16 Visitor Center.

The Workhouse Arts Center partnered with the Justice Arts Coalition to present Prison Reimagined, an exhibition both curated by and featuring the work of currently incarcerated individuals. These original pieces of visual and written art depict U.S. presidents, both past and present, and critically examine their records on criminal justice, while revealing to the viewer through personal narrative, the realities of the lived, carceral human experience. President Lincoln’s Cottage’s Haley Bryant communication coordinator for the Prison Reimagined Project joins our museum director Katie Crooks as they dial in exhibition curator Caddell “Monty” Kivett to discuss the importance of installing this exhibition at the Workhouse.

Free, no registration required

Prison Reimagined is on view at the Workhouse Art Center from January 18 - March 12, 2025, visit the exhibition page for further details.

Upcoming in the Learning at Lunch series:
Gamifying Women’s History, Friday, March 28, Noon-1PM
Workhouse to ARC, Friday, April 18, Noon-1PM