JAC recently spoke with Carole Alden, a visionary artist currently living in Utah where she is building a creative healing space for women survivors of violence and trauma. Born in Orleans, France, Carole grew up throughout the Western US. She first began her art practice working with clay and bronze, later moving to fiber. It …
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Zoe Boekbinder: Prison Music Project
JAC recently spoke with Zoe Boekbinder (they/them), folk singer and songwriter who planted the seed for the Prison Music Project. Nomadic at heart and a creator at their core, Zoe was born on a farm into a family of four children. While music wasn't very present in their upbringing, Zoe recalls some of their first …
Artist Spotlight: Nhut Vo
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 …
Kindness, boundaries, and the border patrol
by Treacy Ziegler(This is the final installment on my discussion of kindness in prison. To read the first three installments, see the first installment, the second installment, and the third installment.)What happens when volunteers and non-prisoners mingle with prisoners? How does kindness get interpreted between those living exclusively in a closed system with those living …
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“My body may be imprisoned, but nothing can keep my creative vision from reaching out beyond these walls.” – the unbounded heartwork of Carole Alden
"There are four drawings that incorporate mermaids with children or fish. These are simply joyful pieces."
