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Encouragement from Rachel Maddow

On March 1, 2009March 1, 2009 By theprisonartscoalitionIn Art in Prison, NEA, Prison Art

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-nea-rachel-maddow1-2009mar01,0,2696224.story

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ATTENTION PERFORMERS! ... The Justice Arts Coalit

ATTENTION PERFORMERS!
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The Justice Arts Coalition is partnering with @diejimcrow for an open mic night, celebrating the work of all individuals within our networks.
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Not only do we encourage individuals within our networks who follow us to participate in this event but there will also be performances of other celebrated and noteworthy artists that are apart of our organizations.
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We want to celebrate our theme of inclusivity when transforming justice as well as providing a platform for artists of all backgrounds. This event emphasizes our values of transforming the justice system through the arts.
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We encourage you to sign up even if you want to simply listen to all the performances!
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please click the link in our bio to sign up!
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#transformthesystem #incarceratedartists #prisonart #prisonabolition #art #perform #music #openmicnight

Reposting @abolitionongradients: ... "excerpted fr

Reposting @abolitionongradients:
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"excerpted from “The Newest Jim Crow,” by Michelle Alexander in The New York Times. the text in these images is transcribed in the comments. full article is linked in bio.

#abolitionist #decarceration #blacklivesmatter #blm"

Our beloved Artlinks Event has gone online due to

Our beloved Artlinks Event has gone online due to COVID-19 and we have loved expanding our network of volunteers to include people from all over! Log in tomorrow (!) to view a small gallery of work by artists experiencing incarceration, and write letters to them about their work. ⁣
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🎨 Art featured here by Gary Farlow and Edee A. Davis will be included in tomorrow's event! ⁣
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Please email justiceartscoalitionintern2@gmail.com for the Zoom link. We hope to see you there! ⁣
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#art #letterwriting #artevent

Relevant, powerful work that we need more than eve

Relevant, powerful work that we need more than ever.
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🎨 by Tomás
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Be sure to click the link in our bio to view more galleries of artwork from our network!
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#transformthesystem #racism #incarceration #prisonart #prisonabolition #art #incarceratedartists

Come through next TUESDAY 7/14 for a Chakra Color

Come through next TUESDAY 7/14 for a Chakra Color Wheel workshop with artist Edwin Calderon! Link in bio to reserve a ticket and for more info. ⁣🎨
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Create a color wheel from found objects as we explore our chakras and the colors associated with each one. In times of unrest, it is crucial that we balance ourselves and our intentions in order to exude our best energy unto others. We all have a role to play in our communities. How can we be sure that our thoughts, words, and actions support peace within ourselves and others? ⁣
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Edwin Calderon of @red_dirt_studio leads this workshop which includes a therapeutic exploration within and guided color wheel creation. It will also include a brief walkthrough of color theory, the science of how particular colors make us feel, viewing works from the Philips’s collection as inspiration for your own piece.⁣
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#art #colorwheel #chakra #spiritualart #centering #workshop

@mdartscouncil

Today we celebrate the oil paintings of Harry Elli

Today we celebrate the oil paintings of Harry Ellis✨🎨
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Be sure to check out Harry’s work and more in our galleries!
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#art #prisonart #incarceratedartists #transformthesystem #prisonabolition

Rage. ... A powerful piece by R. Zumar. ... You

Rage.
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A powerful piece by R. Zumar.

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You can check out more of R’s work in his “The Becomings of a Master” series on our blog.

#transformthesystem #incarceration #prisonart #prisonabolition #incarceratedartists

We love Youth Art's Unlocked's mission to "introdu

We love Youth Art's Unlocked's mission to "introduce artistic concepts and techniques as a means of CONNECTING, EXPRESSING, LEARNING, AND DISCOVERY" for justice-involved youth. ⁣💫
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This wonderful piece is by one of their students, featured in their online gallery. ⁣
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Youth Arts Unlocked has pivoted their programming during the COVID-19 crisis to offer weekly virtual arts workshops to students, as well as creative activity packages to keep them engaged and creating during this time. We admire YAU's commitment to their work and the talented youth they support.⁣
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Check them out at www.youth-arts-unlocked.org or on Facebook Youth Arts: Unlocked to find out more!

A Voice from the Inside ... “All my life I’ve

A Voice from the Inside
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“All my life I’ve been a drug addict, at least since I was 13 years old. What caused me to come down this life road?
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IDOC # 101969 Inmate Daniel, I was supposed to be somebody special. Not some loser.
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What makes me a loser? Societies views, and harsh opinions do…
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In the eyes of the law I’m nothing more than a criminal. A bad person, with a history of lying to the police. I’ve only ever been who I am, but who am i?
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The best part about being human, is the ability to change.
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Maybe I was a loser once, a drug addict who lied to the police. I have committed crimes. I’ve done, bought, and sold, I’ve slammed, smoked, snorted, even ate all types of drugs.
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I’ve stolen, borrowed, and used, I’ve been stolen from, robbed, mugged, and raped, I’ve been molested in my youth.
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I’ve given and I’ve taken all types of abuse. I’ve hated, and I’ve loved, I’ve built and I’ve broken. I’ve hoped and I’ve hurt, had and I’ve lost.
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I’ve been dirty, and homeless, alone, and now found, I’ve been clean, and I’ve cried, I’ve lived, and i’ve died, I’ve tried and I’ve failed, I’ve been numb, and I’ve felt.
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I’ve been beaten, and I’ve won… I’ve come and I’ve gone, and damn it I’m back again.
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I can’t change the things that have already happened, but being human I can change who I am going to become.
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Faith is believing in what you can’t see. At this moment life isn’t easy for me but that doesn’t mean anything. I just have to keep believing, and continue to be me.”

🎨 and 📃 by Amber Daniel

#incarceration #prisonart #art #transformthesystem #incarceratedartists #prisonabolition

This Wednesday, join us for a workshop on virtual

This Wednesday, join us for a workshop on virtual Theatre-making with Raina Greifer! ⁣Link for info + tickets in our bio 🎭
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This workshop will explore how theatre makers can adapt and create work specially fitted for digital mediums. The fate of our theatres are largely uncertain, and performers and creators are being asked to produce online as an alternative. We will be looking at platforms such as Zoom, Skype, Social Media platforms, and Google Drive as potential ways to create experimental and innovative pieces that can thrive as we social distance.⁣
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Raina Greifer (she/her) is a theatre maker, spoken word performer, and visual artist. She is currently studying Drama and Philosophy at Bath Spa University in England. Her work explores sexual assault, queer identity, and teen heartthrobes. She is a co-founder of Purple Crayon Productions, a theatre group based in Silver Spring, MD and Dog Eat Dog theatre, based in Bath, UK. Creating vibrant, vulnerable and oftentimes humorous work, Raina engages her audience to consider their preconceived notions of femininity and female identity.

#theatre #theater #virtualtheatre #workshop #art

The Prison Policy Initiative highlights the educat

The Prison Policy Initiative highlights the educational exclusion and attainment among formerly incarcerated people. Throughout their lives, people who serve time in prison are held back from educational opportunities, making it nearly impossible to earn the credentials they need to succeed after release. Using data from the National Former Prisoner Survey, this report reveals that formerly incarcerated people are often relegated to the lowest rungs of the educational ladder; more than half hold only a high school diploma or GED, and a quarter hold no credential at all. While incarcerated, and even after release from prison, we find that people rarely get the chance to make up for the educational opportunities from which they’ve been excluded — opportunities that impact their chances of reentry success.
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Before going to prison, many formerly incarcerated people are subject to punitive practices in schools and neighborhoods that funnel them out of school and into juvenile and criminal justice system involvement; this process has been characterized as a “school-to-prison pipeline.” But the problem doesn’t end there. As our analysis shows, their educational exclusion persists during and after incarceration. At the same time that criminalized youth are pushed out of traditional schooling, high school (and increasingly college) credentials are becoming essential for employment
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It is nearly impossible for formerly incarcerated job seekers to compete in an economy that increasingly demands highly skilled, credentialed workers.The combination of educational exclusion, history of incarceration, race, and gender contributes to much higher rates of unemployment for formerly incarcerated people of color without high school credentials. Women of color face the highest unemployment rates: 60% of Black women who don’t have a high school diploma or GED, and nearly half of Hispanic women, are unemployed.

#transformthesystem #incarceration #justice #education #prisonart #prisonabolition

Help support the Justice Arts Coalition by donatin

Help support the Justice Arts Coalition by donating to our #GOFUNDME! JAC is building a nationwide collective of people who are committed to increasing opportunities for creative expression in carceral settings and shaping public dialogue around the intersection of the #arts and #justice.
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With your donation, we are better able to address challenges we mutually face, share insights and best practices, and develop strategies to increase arts engagement within the system as well as fund artists on the inside to send art or correspondence. Your donation will continue to support the Justice Arts Coalition in strengthening our infrastructure and providing services to our community both on the inside and within our network.
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Thank you for your support!

#prisonart #transformthesystem #incarceratedartists #prisonart #prisonabolition

“The pARTners Project has given me that one-on-o

“The pARTners Project has given me that one-on-one guidance, advice, encouragement, and even inspiration to not only continue in productive, positive activities, but to reach beyond any limitation or erroneous public perceptions held about inmates.” - Gary Farlow

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Connect with and support one of the incredible artists in our network by joining the pARTner Project today! Many artists like Gary are waiting to be paired with YOU to share, communicate, and grow together.

#art #incarceratedartists #partnerproject

Last week we had an incredible workshop conversati

Last week we had an incredible workshop conversation with Kenneth Reams. Check out this month's Artist Spotlight on Kenny for highlights from the event and some of Kenny's art! Link in bio.⁣
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🎨"Solitary" by Kenneth Reams⁣
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We were lucky to connect with Kenny through his work with the Prison Story Project. Kenny was one of the 11 men incarcerated on Arkansas Death Row who wrote PSP’s “On the Row,” a film that JAC screened with our Create+Connect series back in May. After getting to know Kenny and his work, we were honored to host a workshop with him on June 25. Kenny shared his story and thoughts on racism, the injustice of the ‘justice’ system, and capital punishment, and told us how he manages to be such a prolific and powerful creator from his solitary confinement cell, which he calls “the box.”

#art #incarceratedartists #deathpenalty #freekennethreams

Today we celebrate our newest addition to the Teac

Today we celebrate our newest addition to the Teaching Artist Spotlight series. Elia Cadilla has done research for the FILIUS Institute as well as a study about the effect of #theater in the rehabilitation process of women in prison. Cadilla teaches Acting for Film and TV at the University of Sacred Heart, and directs the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Theater Program since late 2001.
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When JAC asked the most rewarding part of working with incarcerated artist, Cadilla explained how there was “No contest there, to see how their lives change completely… I’ve seen people who came from being drug dealers, prostitutes, addicts, gunners for the punto (the drug dealing business), thieves, car hijackers, you name it, become actors, artisans, writers, preachers even… and so they can forgive themselves and start anew.”
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Click the link in our bio to read our blog and hear more about Elia’s experience as a #teachingartist ! #incarceration #transformthesystem #prisonart

“After years of fighting to be included in syste

“After years of fighting to be included in systems of domination- the military and marriage, and promoting both of these as a panacea against homophobia/transphobia-we need to get back to our roots: liberation. Law enforcement has always targeted, persecuted, and erased us. It hasn’t stopped, but if you listen to mainstream gay organizations, you would think it has, because these organizations are absent from the fight against mass incarceration and struggle against police violence. Moreover, these organizations promote solutions thet all but ensure that poor queer/trans folk will be accosted by the police. I hope we get back to our roots.”
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🎨 by Edee A Davis

#pridemonth #pride #endmassincarceration #lgbtq🌈 #prisonartwork #prisonartist

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