Jailbirds in Flight
A quiet exhibition of women who taught us how to be free.
Nevaeh
Innocence chosen, not inherited.
Please take a moment before you continue.
There are people whose innocence has been protected by circumstance, and people whose innocence has been chosen against every circumstance. Nevaeh is the second kind. She is young, and she has already seen more than most of us will admit to seeing, and she has decided—with the whole of herself—to remain someone who believes in goodness. She still hopes without hedging. She still loves without a plan for how it might hurt her. Spend ten minutes with her and you will remember that innocence, after a certain age, is not a leftover from childhood. It is a form of courage.
Ten minutes with Nevaeh
A short film in the Jailbirds in Flight series. Running time approximately ten minutes. Please watch, if you can, in one sitting.
Filmed inside — part of the ongoing project to change the way our culture sees the women it puts behind walls.
Hope
Nevaeh taught us that hope, after a certain age, is not a leftover from childhood but a form of courage. She has seen more than most of us will admit to seeing, and she has decided—with the whole of herself—to keep believing in goodness. Her innocence is not what has been protected from the world; it is what she has chosen against it.
A favorite line from Nevaeh will live here — one sentence that opens the whole door.
Nevaeh
An excerpt about Nevaeh
A short passage from Jailbirds in Flight featuring Nevaeh will live here — the kind of paragraph that makes you want to buy the book by the end of it.
What did Nevaeh awaken in you?
Written responses become part of the exhibition's guestbook.
Adjacent rooms
Move through the exhibition, one portrait at a time.