Recently, JAC got the chance to speak with Will Livingston, artist, member of JAC’s network, and author of Live from the Cell Block: Will Livingston and His Silk Screen Machine. Live from the Cell Block is a collection of Will’s screen printed concert posters. In partnership with Justice Arts Coalition and Brick of Gold Publishing, …
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Pieces
Guest Contributor: Obie Weathers "When I came to prison I was quite inarticulate and made an oath to myself that I wouldn’t ever again allow someone else to tell my story. I would be the one from here on out telling it." - excerpt from Obie Weathers Artist Statement Pieces I For the first half …
Gary Harrell Artist Spotlight
By Clare Walker, JAC Intern Gary Harrell with JAC founding director Wendy Jason at the opening of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration in Cincinnati, OH Gary Harrell is a JAC network artist, formerly incarcerated artist, and co-founder of Shower Works, a non-profit based in California which aims to bring free, warm …
Artist Spotlight: Cuong Mike Tran
By Clare Walker, JAC Intern Mike Tran has been dabbling in art and drawing his surroundings since childhood. At an early age he "cursed a dream that was imposed on [him]." His talent, he says, was acknowledged but never encouraged. As the years passed, school and work began to take priority and art was put …
Teaching Artist Spotlight: Rowan Renee
By Clare Walker, JAC Intern Recently, JAC had the chance to speak with Rowan Renee. Rowan (b. 1985, West Palm Beach, Florida) is a genderqueer artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Their work addresses the intersections of gender-based violence, intergenerational trauma and mass incarceration through State records and family archives. In 2019, they acquired the contents …
