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Takoma Park, MD 20913
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Community, resources, and opportunities for artists creating in and around the US carceral system.

Justice Arts Coalition
Starting Soon! 📣 Join us tonight at 6pm for our Starting Soon! 📣 Join us tonight at 6pm for our Volunteer Correspondence Gathering! Register using the link in our bio! We shall see you at 7112 Willow Street, Takoma Park shortly! 🫶

#event #correspondenceart #justiceart #justiceartcoalition #art #artwork #abolition #abolishprisons #takomapark #takomaparkmd
We are thrilled to welcome our new board members: We are thrilled to welcome our new board members: Marissa Gutierrez-Vicario as Secretary and Keisha Ann Lopes! 🥳 Thank you for your commitment to abolition-centered work. To celebrate who y'all are, we share "Defining Compassion" by Scotlund Haisley, JAC Network Writer. Text is present on the graphic and below. 

For those in our community meeting Marissa and Keisha Ann now, we encourage you to read these awesome folks' bios below! 💛

Marissa Gutierrez-Vicario (she/her) is Artist-in-Residence at the Initiative for a Just Society at Columbia University. As a committed human rights and peace-building activist, artist, and educator, Marissa launched a non-profit arts organization based in New York City to help young people amplify their voices and organize for human rights change in their communities through the visual arts. Currently, Marissa serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at the City College of New York in the Art Education department.

Keisha Ann is a second-year law student at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. She is currently serving as President for UIC’s Black Law Students Association chapter and serves as the Chair for the UIC Racial Minority Coalition. Working with a Chicago organization, Keisha Ann helps register incarcerated people to vote directly through the Cook County jail. She is involved in various other organizations and committees that promote and advance racial and social justice. While in school, Keisha Ann works as a law clerk working on family immigration and asylum cases. Despite being in law school, Keisha Ann has held a passion for art since she was a childhood. She recalls going to art camp each summer as a child, planting the seed for her passion of the arts. As she learned how to sew by the age of 9, Keisha Ann began to sew her own clothes and purses. As she concludes law school, Keisha Ann has begun working to develop her own fashion line.

#boardofdirectors #nonprofit #announcement #welcome #scotlundhaisley #art #artforjustice #abolition #abolishprisons
We would like to thank the Maryland State Arts Cou We would like to thank the Maryland State Arts Council @mdartscouncil for granting us arts relief funding to support our general operations! 🙏

🖌 Artwork: "Prison" by Leroy Sodorff (Top Right), "Coffee" by Leroy Sodorff (Bottom Left)
💚 WHAT: Book Signing & Discussion with Reda A. 💚 WHAT: Book Signing & Discussion with Reda A. Taleb
📆 WHEN: Friday 1/27 6-7pm
📍 WHERE: 7112 Willow Ave, Takoma Park MD

Join us this Friday to celebrate the launch of Reda Taleb's new book "Noura's Extraordinary Superpower: A Book for Youth with Incarcerated Loved Ones and How to Activate the Innate Superpower of Empathy for Healing."

Books will be available for sale following the event, including book signing and pictures 📕 Light refreshments will be served. Please register using the link in the bio in order to help us get a count on attendance. The link is also pasted below.

We are delighted that you will be joining us in our new space! 🫶
 
Register here or using link in bio for this pay-what-you-can event, and consider a contribution that feels meaningful to you to help us cover the costs: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reda-taleb-book-signing-moderated-discussion-tickets-520696395937

Questions? Please contact us via email: redaataleb@gmail.com
JOB ALERT ‼️ 🔵 WHAT: Development & Commun JOB ALERT ‼️ 

🔵 WHAT: Development & Communications Manager 
📍WHERE: In-Person (Takoma Park, MD) / Hybrid
🟣 WHO: You are passionate about communications, fundraising strategies, arts engagement and abolitionism. 
📆APPLY BY: February 1st 

To learn more about the position, click the link in the bio OR go to bit.ly/JAC-jobs! 

To apply, send your… 
✔️ resume
✔️ cover letter of your skills and interests related to this position
✔️ two writing samples
✔️ names/contacts info for 3 professional references 

Compensation: The starting salary is $70,000 plus a generous benefits package including healthcare (including dental + vision) and an ample PTO policy

Hours: Monday through Friday (40 hours) and includes some evening and weekend events

*Individuals who have been directly impacted by the carceral system are encouraged to apply. We also encourage people of color, women, queer and trans/gender-no conforming people to apply*

📣 Please share this job opportunity! 📣

Artwork: “Untitled” by Brian Fuller
We’re proud to be partnering with Ithaka S+R in We’re proud to be partnering with Ithaka S+R in an @nehgov #NEHGrant funded project to explore how the stories of people who are justice impacted can be best preserved & develop strategies to make experiences of incarceration accessible. Through “Preserving Their Stories,” we will explore the challenges these organizations face in order to help them respond, prepare, and ethically preserve first-hand experiences of mass incarceration.
This weekend, the Stella Adler Center for the Art This weekend, the Stella Adler Center for the Art and Ritual4Return will launch Who Decides?: The Kenneth Reams Project. Currently incarcerated in Arkansas, Kenneth Reams was on death row for over 25 years before being moved to general population. While he and his legal team are pursuing a federal habeas petition to overturn his conviction, Kenneth uses art and activism to tell his story and that of mass incarceration in America. @freekennethreams @naacp_ldf @stellaadler For more details, visit: https://www.stellaadler.com/kenneth-reams-project/
Beginning this MLK day, Monday, January 16 from 6 Beginning this MLK day, Monday, January 16 from 6 pm to 8 pm, JAC will be hosting bi-monthly volunteer correspondence gatherings at our headquarters in Takoma Park
📍7112 Willow Ave

Join us in responding to recently received art and mail from incarcerated artists across the country who are members of JAC’s network! All materials, instructions for the letters, snacks, and music will be provided. 
💌Register at the link in bio!

#volunteer #nonprofit #event #abolishprisons #abolish #community #volunteering #takomapark #artforjustice #letter #letterwriting
📣Teaching Artist Spotlight: Kirk Charlton 📣 📣Teaching Artist Spotlight: Kirk Charlton 📣

“I noticed that while I was trying to make my life better, a lot of things that you do to make your life better kind of parallel to wanting to make your art better. Art’s all about problem-solving.” - Kirk Charlton @kirk.charlton 

Read about Kirk’s personal journey of empowerment through art and how he translates this message into Art Inside Out, which structures itself around re-establishing a sense of value in people who are incarcerated.

Click the link to read this blog post now! 

✏️ written by: Liv Galbreath
🖼️ designed by: Mari Rufo
2022 was a year of significant growth for JAC, but 2022 was a year of significant growth for JAC, but it didn’t come without struggle. We felt stretched far beyond our capacity at times and had to get real about how much we could continue to say yes to. Settling into our first office space in Takoma Park, MD was a huge and vital step towards sustainability, and expanding our full-time staff has enabled us to dream bigger about future development. As the year draws to a close, we’re filled with gratitude for our dedicated team, all of the amazing artists in our community, and our network of supporters. The roots we are putting down now will surely help to nourish us for years to come. Please consider investing in our ongoing growth and starting the year with a contribution. Happy 2023! 

Read our full JAC Wrapped post at the link in our bio.
May the new year bring all of the nourishment your May the new year bring all of the nourishment your body, mind, and spirit have been longing for. 
With love,
Your friends at JAC

Watercolors: 
1. Golden Finch, Sean Fox
2. New Growth, Jesse Osmun
3. How Far Away is Yesterday, Samson Loynachan
📣 CONNECT WITH AN INCARCERATED ARTIST THROUGH A 📣 CONNECT WITH AN INCARCERATED ARTIST THROUGH ART!📣

Are you an artist, writer, or creative looking for connection, motivation, and collaboration? Sign up for our pARTner Project to connect with an artist inside through letter correspondence. We have +100 artists inside facilities waiting for outside artists. Can you be a pARTner? 🖌

Visit the link in our bio to learn more and register! 💙 

Graphic by @isabellasirota 🙌

#artconnection #project #callforartists #penpal #letterwriting #justice #justicethrougharts #art #artwork #partnership #collaboration #togetherwecan
Artist Spotlight: Angelica Marie Soto 📣 We rec Artist Spotlight: Angelica Marie Soto 📣

We recently had the chance to interview JAC network artist Angelica M. Soto! Click the link in our bio to read about Angelica's amazing work as written by JAC Interns Sara Medwin and Tessa Delgo. 

"For Angelica, her artistic craft is a means to communicate, allowing her to share her creative visions and her innermost self with her community and family," writes Sara Medwin and Tessa Delgo. 

#justicearts #angelicamsoto #angelicamariesoto #blog #newblog #artsforjustice #justice #arts #healingarts #transformativeart #nonprofit #abolition #abolitionist #abolishprisons
On Saturday, December 3rd from 1-3 pm, JAC will be On Saturday, December 3rd from 1-3 pm, JAC will be hosting a holiday letter writing event at our new office space in Takoma Park, MD (7112 Willow Ave, Takoma Park, MD)! These letters will be sent to incarcerated artists around the country. This space is meant to be an opportunity to spend time with friends old and new, and to engage with some incredible art being made inside, around, and about the system. All materials, directions for the letters, and music will be provided. Please consider coming for as much or as little time as you can spare...and bring a friend! Register at the link in bio. 💌💌💌💌
We did it! 🥳 Thanks to our wonderful communit We did it! 🥳 

Thanks to our wonderful community and to those who gave and shared our efforts, Giving Tuesday was a huge success🎉 Together we surpassed our goal to raise $10,861* to support our new HQ and expanded programming. 

We look forward to all the correspondence, gatherings, connection, and community made possible by your support in the coming year. 💚

From all of us at JAC: thank you! 💌

Thank you to @cataloguedc for giving us a platform for Giving Tuesday!

*Amount updated at 11:56pm EST. Graphic shows prior amount raised!

#fundraise #fundraiser #givingtuesday2022 #togetherwecan #abolishprisons #abolitionism #abolitionist #nonprofit #nonprofitorg #justicearts #justicenow #justice #artsforjustice #transformation
What an exciting day! We are deeply grateful for e What an exciting day! We are deeply grateful for everyone that has supported us this #GivingTuesday to reach our $10k goal. Because of these efforts, we are less than $1k away!

If you plan to give, but haven’t yet, please take a moment these last few hours to help us reach our goal: https://www.givelocaltogether.org/justicearts. 

And be sure to check out more of Chris Trigg’s beautiful wildlife work here: https://thejusticeartscoalition.org/portfolio/chris-trigg/.
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