Please note: The Justice Arts Coalition does not offer any programs. The following are independent prison arts programs we have identified in this region. To learn more about the programs below, please contact the programs directly.
Delaware
- Prison Education maureen.whelan@doe.k12.de.us, 302-857-3340
Maryland
- Knitting Behind Bars Lynn Zwerling, lynnzwerling@verizon.net, 410 868 5129
- Artivate info@goartivate.org, 301-588-7525
- Carpe Diem Arts busygraham@carpediemarts.org, 301-466-0183
- Goucher Prison Education Partnership 410.337.6033, GPEP.inquiries@goucher.edu
Virginia
- Art program at Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail info@acrj.org, 434-977-6981
- The Messages Project list@themessagesproject.org
- Open Minds dcoogan@vcu.edu, 804.828.1331
- Inspiration Matterz
- Heard jahcollins@gmail.com
- Art for the Journey info@artforthejourney.org, 804-784-5357
- Humanities Behind Bars humanitiesbehindbarseducation@gmail.com
- Amplify Music rebecca@amplifymusicva.org, (540) 718-5220
North Carolina
- North Carolina Division of Prisons Annual Creative Writing Contest, Annual Inmate Art Show
- Prison Books Collective prisonbooks@gmail.com, (919) 443-9238
- Nash Correctional Institutions 252-459-4455
- Hidden Voices Lynden Harris, lharris@hiddenvoices.org
- Working Narratives info@workingnarratives.org
- Inside Out at Warren Wilson Contact through this form, 1-800-934-3536
- Avery Mitchell CI in Spruce Pine (828) 765-0229
- Beyond Prison Artist Alliance– an art program at Avery Mitchell Correctional Institution in Spruce Pine. Contact Sarah Rose Lejeune at sarahroselejeune@gmail.com or beyondprisonartistalliance@
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Justice Arts Initiative, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Detention Center Central and Juvenile Detention Center North, Charlotte NC. Contact mykell.gatesjamil@bechtler.org
- Creative Writing: Joseph Bathanti, Poet Laureate of NC, teaches writing in prisons, 828-262-2337, bathantjr@appstate.edu
Georgia
- Reforming Arts reformingarts@gmail.com
- Blackout Arts Collective atlanta@blackoutartscollective.com
- Synchronicity Theatre info@synchrotheatre.com
Florida
- ArtSpring Leslie Neal, artspring@artspring.org
- Art Program at Everglades Correctional Institute, Alejandra Chirinos, alechiri93@hotmail.com
- Exchange for Change 305-771-3241
- NOMAD Art Bus hello@nomadartbus.org
- O, Miami
- Open Books Bookstore & Prison Book Projectopenbookspcola@riseup.net
Arkansas
- The Northwest Arkansas Prison Story Project 479-871-4875, prisonstoryproject@gmail.com
- Compassion Works for All (501) 508-4334
Louisiana
- Angola Prison (225) 655-2592
- Blackout Arts Collective (504) 339- 3154, neworleans@blackoutartscollective.com
- Operation Restoration’s info@or-nola.org
(504) 684-9222 - Louisiana Prison Education Coalition 504-233-2522, laprisoneducationcoalition@gmail.com
Kentucky
- Shakespeare Behind Bars, Curt L. Tofteland, curt@shakespearebehindbars.org
- Calls from Home Radio Program esanders@appalshop.org, wmmtfm@appalshop.org, 606-633-0108
- Voices Inside-Northpoint Plays northpointplays@gmail.com, (859) 236-2747
Tennessee
- LIFE Program Richard Goode, richard.goode@lipscomb.edu, 615.966.5748 ext. 5748
Mississippi
- Prison Writes Initiative (VOX Press), 662-816-4775, louis-bourgeois@hotmail.com
Alabama
- The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project 334-844-8946, apaepau@auburn.edu
- “Corrections” Serial Drama at Donaldson Correctional Facility contact@correctionssurvival.com
- Voices of the Incarcerated present Liberated Voices info@jeffersoncountymemorial.com