Inside Audio: Vinyl Records Recorded in Midwest Jails and Prisons

Josh MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist. He is a founding member of both the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements based in Brooklyn, NY (InterferenceArchive.org). MacPhee is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Graphic Liberation: Image Making and Political Movements (Common Notions, 2024) and Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. He has organized the Celebrate People’s History poster series since 1998 and has been the main designer for the campaign to Shut Rikers Island Jail Complex for the past decade. His most recent book is Strike While the Needle is Hot: A Discography of Workers’ Revolt (Common Notions, 2025), a compendium of vinyl records produced by striking workers.

Marc Fischer is a Chicago-based artist, publisher, and teacher known for collaborative, experimental work that often focuses on overlooked cultural materials. He is a member of the group Temporary Services, co-founder of the publishing imprint Half Letter Press, and founder of the project Public Collectors.

The mission of Walls Turned Sideways is to build bridges that connect people in prison, their families, artists, and other community members using art, exhibitions, and political education with a focus on collective liberation, healing, and abolition.

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The venue has two ADA accessible restrooms and insertable ramps for the entrance, which have a slight ledge to them.