talkPOPc Founder Dena Shottenkirk teaches art and philosophy classes to the female inmates at Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn. She is currently working on a collection of portraits of several inmates that will be available for purchase as a tax-deductible gift, along with an exclusive audio relating to the piece. This project dovetails with the current talkPOPc topic, Power.

Liz’s Book Bar

Every month talkPOPc’s Resident Philosophers sit down with participants to investigate, argue about and in general ruminate on the current talkPOPc’s topic, which is Power. Art is about getting people to think, conversations about the topic are usually in private. talkPOPc corrects this problem. We bring conversation into the open so that people can hear others’ views, clarify their own thoughts, and foster new ideas in everyone. In other words, to do the talkPOPc mantra of building thought and gaining consensus.