I Hope This Finds You Well (2025–26) brings original musical compositions together with video, audio testimonials, musicians, and a choir to examine the effects of incarceration while celebrating resilience, repair, and resistance. The performance expands on Samora Pinderhughes’s experimentation with the interview as a medium for storytelling, featuring the voices of narrators from across 15 US states impacted by incarceration, detention, policing, and other systems of violence. I Hope This Finds You Well moves between story and song, envisioning a world built around healing rather than punishment.

If the event is sold out, there will be a first-come, first-served standby line beginning 30 minutes prior to the start of the performance. The Sunday matinee performance on February 1 is included with Museum admission, but capacity is limited and advance registration is required.

Performance credits
Director, piano, and voice: Samora Pinderhughes
Dramaturg: Jocelyn Clarke
Movement director: Amanda Krische
Guitar and voice: Elliott Skinner
Guitar: Rafiq Bhatia
Bass: Joshua Crumbly
Voice and vocal arranger: Nio Levon
Voice: Brayla Cook, Nia Drummond, Nina Moffitt, Jehbreal Muhammad Jackson, Dani Murcia
Narrators: Roosevelt “Bliss” Arrington, Dante Clark, Lawrence Dahu Harris, Ginale Harris, Sharen Hewitt, Michelle Jones, Keith LaMar, Peter Mukuria aka Pitt Panther, Sam Vaughn, Cyril Walrond

All songs were composed by Samora Pinderhughes, except an untitled excerpt by Elliott Skinner, “Murderer’s Home” by Jimpson & Group, and the traditional spiritual “Been in the Storm.”