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"End Cash Bail" showcases the impact of Texas jails on incarcerated folks and their loved ones — through breathtaking poetry, paintings, collages, cyanotypes, photography, and more.

Join KB Brookins, artist-in-residence at the ACLU of Texas, for the opening of this dynamic exhibition, which is intentionally wide-spanning in point of view and art type to show the extensive impact and responses to the Texas jail crisis.

Wednesday, January 14, 2026
5:30 – 8 p.m. CT
Lawndale Art Center
Cecily E. Horton Gallery
4912 Main Street
Houston, Texas 77002

The opening event will include free food and free resources from community partners.

Contributing artists: KB Brookins (poet & curator), Ebony Stewart (poet), Alberto “Albert” Sanchez (visual artist), Sebastian Gomez de la Torre (visual artist), Stalina Villareal (poet), Sebastien Boncy (visual artist), Deborah DEEP Mouton (poet), Julie De Vries (visual artist), Lauren Oertel (poet), Anastasia Kirages (visual artist), Solidad Decosta (poet), John Shockley (visual artist), Aris Kian (poet), Kenneth West (visual artist), Reyes Ramirez (poet), Crystal Coulter (visual artist), Daizy Jordan (poet), Lady 380 (poet), Anthony Sutton (poet), Randall James Tyrone (poet), and more.

"End Cash Bail" will be displayed at the Lawndale Art Center's Cecily E. Horton Gallery from January 14 – 17, 2026. The exhibition and its programming are funded in part by the ACLU of Texas.