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The Restorative Revolution
This essay by Elaine Shpungin, Ph.D. was originally posted on 2/15/11 at http://www.improvecommunication.net/. We hope it will inspire some dialogue about the intersections of prison arts and...
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Memory of Space
by Treacy Ziegler About the guest blogger: Treacy Ziegler has been an exhibiting artist for the past 23 years. She studied painting and printmaking for four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine...
View ArticleThe Restorative Revolution
This essay by Elaine Shpungin, Ph.D. was originally posted on 2/15/11 at http://www.improvecommunication.net/. We hope it will inspire some dialogue about the intersections of prison arts and...
View ArticleMemory of Space
by Treacy Ziegler About the guest blogger: Treacy Ziegler has been an exhibiting artist for the past 23 years. She studied painting and printmaking for four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine...
View ArticleClimbing The Walls: Incarceration and Art
About the guest contributor: “Though I don’t like being labeled, or “summed up” by definitions, there are two tags I must live with. First, I am an artist… I have been my entire life. I dabble in...
View ArticleTime Spent – Making Art in Prison
by Rebecca Kelly People can start with what seems like an ever-renewable supply anger and despair. This emotional energy is sometimes the initial fuel for the creative act. But that energy may also...
View ArticleAs the End Comes (a tribute to Alice Walker)
by Mardie Swartz Mardie Swartz has spent 29 years behind bars in Texas. This poem is about the time approaching when she will finally be beyond bars. I remember beginnings – The first time I was...
View ArticleThe Slippery Slope of Kindness
Teaching artist Treacy Ziegler's third installment of a series of essays on kindness in prison. The post The Slippery Slope of Kindness appeared first on The Justice Arts Coalition.
View ArticleThe Stories We Save May Include Our Own
by Matt Malyon I. Birdwatching Late night on Watson Bridge—a span across the Skagit River in Northern Washington—a trumpeter swan flies into a light pole. The pole reverberates with sound. The bird...
View ArticleThe Becomings of a Master, Part 3: Hiatus
"...I see beauty in all things though once upon a time all I saw was ugliness." The post The Becomings of a Master, Part 3: Hiatus appeared first on The Justice Arts Coalition.
View ArticleMy Block.
by Annabel Manning On the last day of my Hine Fellowship, the Men’s Empowerment Program (MEP) interns at the Harlem Community Justice Center (HCJC) had the opportunity to experience the power of...
View ArticleThe Prison Story Project
On May 23, 2020, in collaboration with The Prison Story Project, the Justice Arts Coalition will be presenting a premiere screening of “On the Row,” a documentary created by The Prison Story Project...
View ArticleGuest post: Ronald McKeithen
Jefferson County Memorial Project by Ronald McKeithen When the realization of having to serve an agonizingly slow death sentence of life without the possibility of parole finally hit home, the pursuit...
View ArticleThe Other America
by Christian Trigg I rarely miss a dawn. I missed 20 years worth at the federal supermax so I have an outsized appreciation for all sorts of things many others take for granted. My cell window at the...
View ArticleArtist Spotlight: Troy Glover
by Isa Berliner, JAC Intern Troy Glover has always been a storyteller. He remembers entertaining his little league baseball team with ghost stories on rides home after games and writing poetic letters...
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