Mary DeWitt Painting
​contact:marydewitt@me.com
Submitted on behalf of Betty Heron, her Reconsideration request
to the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons is available to review here.
The Penn Art Collection has accepted my donation of a portrait of Sharon Wiggins.
The Carey Law Center will be displaying the portrait. Click on Sharon Wiggins to view this 5'x4' reverse glass painting as it develops and hear Wiggins' recollection of her Grandmother's KKK memory.
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A New Presence in the Pardon Garden
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Figurative ceramic sculpture totems depicting Ancients will be located throughout the garden to be exhibited in the spring of 2026.
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The mural portraits of life-sentenced women will be moved to a more visible site for advocacy, to be announced then.
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Pardon, the Highest Justice, as understood by the Ancients, will be re-imagined here in the Pardon Garden.
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November selfie in the Ceramic studio
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RECONSIDERATION
The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons failed to investigate the credibility of uninformed victims' families. The pubic demands justice and RECONSIDERATION for Betty Heron and Cyd Berger.
Hand-made, 6"x6" high-fired tile mural portraits of Betty Heron and Cyd Berger, 2024, Pardon Garden, Media, PA. Both were severely battered women, sentenced in 1982 and 1980 respectively. They were poorly represented, sentenced to life without parole with no mention by their counsel of the battered women's syndrome. They have endured over 85 years in prison collectively. Misinformed and dishonest victims' families continue to sabotage their long overdue freedom. The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons has been politicized and careless.
This portrait was of hand-made tile was painted in 2003, with narrative added in 2024. Sharon Wiggins, beloved by staff, prisoners and anyone who was fortunate to know her, died in prison after applying for commutation 13 times. A video of her describing her grandmother's memory can be viewed here.
Cyd Berger, hand-made 6"x6" tile, 2022
Avis Lee on the left and Paulette Carrington on the right, low fired 6x6" tile