A national network and resource for those creating art in and around the criminal legal system.
Our online Summer Workshop Series Create+Connect is going strong! This week, on Thursday, June 22, we are so excited to be joined by the incredible Kenneth Reams. Kenneth Reams is an artist, social justice activist, and the founder of Who Decides, Inc., a non-profit that aims to raise awareness through the arts of the racial, …
Continue reading Workshop Spotlight: A Conversation From Death Row with Kenneth Reams
By R. Zumar This is the first piece of abstract art that I've ever made. I didn't know what it would mean to me once it was finished and really didn't have a plan of what I wanted when I was looking at this blank piece of paper in front of me. Then I started …
JAC network artist Chris Trigg details the enormous challenges facing incarcerated artists over the last 10 years and more recently in light of pandemic lockdowns. Surviving prison requires some creativity. It often becomes about making the most of a bad situation. If you look, creativity manifests itself everywhere. People making something out of nothing. Some …
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This piece written by Janie Paul was originally published in The Conversation. Reposted with the author's permission. Over the past few months, most of us have found ourselves in unfamiliar territory trying to shape the formlessness of our days while contending with physical separation. Many incarcerated people, however, have spent years figuring out what to …
Continue reading What we can learn about isolation from prison artists
By R. Zumar This is baby Harmoni, born January 27th, 2020. I look at her at peace with no worries in the world. A new little human gifted to us, a life with so much potential. Like all children, at least in our country, she will have the basics to survive and grow. She will …
Continue reading The Becomings of A Master: The Portrait Series #3
