Justice Arts Coalition (JAC) is excited to announce our inaugural online exhibition: Inside & Out: Photorealists to Minimalists. Amid growing calls for transformative justice and the abolition of our country’s criminal legal system, artists can play a unique role in envisioning and implementing new ways of approaching conflict, building community, and fostering healing. By changing …

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by Absa Fall, Isa Berliner, and Melissa Wang, JAC Interns Justice Arts Coalition (JAC) is proud to celebrate the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. We invite you to view the virtual exhibition from March 16 to March 31 and attend the concurrent online events, such as an artists panel and a guided …

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Joshua Earls is a prolific painter and writer who discovered the power of art during his “turbulent and sometimes terrifying first months incarcerated.” His oil paintings and drawings portray diverse, realistic subjects that range from nature to his mother’s red velvet cake. Below, Josh shares his 2020 newsletter, where he writes about JAC, a year …

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by Naomi Rachel, JAC Volunteer – with Gary Farlow and Caddell Kivett  After working with incarcerated poets for twenty years (with PEN and JAC) I didn’t expect to be amazed by anything produced at a prison. Yup, I was a bit jaded. Never by the writers, who always impress me with their knowledge and their …

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At Justice Arts Coalition, we are always working on new ways to engage with our community and share the wonderful work of our network artists. In the past year, we have moved our existing programs to virtual spaces to respond to the pandemic and developed innovative new ways to better amplify system-impacted artists. One of …

Continue reading Announcing JAC’s New Gallery of the Month Series

by Melissa Wang, JAC Intern Justice Art Coalition’s inaugural virtual exhibition is opening tonight, featuring over thirty incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, teaching, and independent artists. We invite you to join us for the musical launch of Inside & Out: Photorealists to Minimalists, tonight, February 26th, at 7 PM EST. Register for the event here.  JAC will …

Continue reading Inside & Out Musical Launch: Spotlight on Artists BL Shirelle and King Moosa

by Melissa Wang and Isa Berliner, JAC Interns The creative process enables us to see good in the world and people around us. Brian Hindson’s story and his collaborative work with other incarcerated artists exemplify this exceptional power of art. His creative story begins, surprisingly, twenty-two years after leaving art school. Although Brian attended art …

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by Isa Berliner, JAC Intern “When you paint and when you draw, to me, you create a capsule with time and space, and it’s imprinted in life forever at that time.” When Nhut Vo arrived in the United States at nine years old, it was not only his first time in a new country, but …

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