Circle the tattoos that might be found on gang members.” Together, they suggest a renaissance — not of prison art, which is probably as old as prisons, but of its public reception. Americans seem ...

Crossing Fences’ Prison Art Program is a new program by the 365 Foundation in Lansdale that provides restorative art exhibitions for women in prisons and reentry facilities, reports IssueWire.

It was the first time “prison art” had been seen in an exhibition outside the facility. On display at the LeMoyne show were two over-12-foot giant totem poles with detachable wings and beaks ...

More and more art is challenging long-held assumptions about the criminal justice system. The interdisciplinary artist Sable Elyse Smith in her New York City studio on July 5, 2022, with works ...

But he took issue with how heavily it was tied to prison life. Though he became a painter while imprisoned, he said his art is about so much more. “I noticed that people started to call us ...

While the art show is at ECSU, he will be lecturing there. For the past decade, he has also organized a separate annual show, “Out of Prison, Making Art,” for alumni of the prison art program ...

Sheets In 2010, in the recreation center of the Fairton Federal Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison for men in South New Jersey, an art collective was born. Five years into a 13 ...

Winston, who's incarcerated at Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution, and even displayed some of his art at the gallery. He’s serving a 30-year prison sentence with three years remaining.

As an incarcerated artist, prison rules mount higher hurdles to even expressing her creativity. Sharing her art with the outside world poses even greater challenges. Recent years have seen an ...

But eventually he found an outlet for his pain in art. “My favorite thing to say about the Prison Arts Program is that it saved my life,” he said. Killion was speaking during the opening ...

An art expert who appeared on the BBC’s Bargain Hunt show has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for failing to ...