Opening Reception: March 4th, 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Exhibition: March 4th to March 18th, 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Empowerment Avenue, Fulton Art Fair, and the Brooklyn Quaker Meeting are pleased to present “She Told Me Save the Flower,” an exhibition of paintings, drawings and writing by Corey Devon Arthur. The exhibition enables Corey Arthur, who has been incarcerated since 1997, to express an important message of healing. A lifelong visual artist and prolific writer, Corey has created a series of feminist portraits dedicated to a group of women who have profoundly changed his life for the better. The exhibition, presented at My Gallery NYC in Crown Heights, Brooklyn during Women’s History Month, speaks to the power of feminism to heal a patriarchal carceral system that relies on brutality and oppression. Corey has a vision for this exhibition that he expressed to us through his JPay messaging communications and phone conversations over the course of several months. We were simply acting as conduits, following his instructions, and full credit can be given to Corey Arthur for conceptualizing and realizing this project. His words and images speak for themselves.