by Isa Berliner, JAC Intern Troy Glover has always been a storyteller. He remembers entertaining his little league baseball team with ghost stories on rides home after games and writing poetic letters to the girls in his elementary school class. “That should have been a sign I sucked because I didn’t get a girlfriend until …
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Celebrating PCAP’s 25th Annual Exhibition
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 …
Inside & Out Musical Launch: Spotlight on Artists BL Shirelle and King Moosa
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 …
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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 …
Artist Spotlight: Daniel Martinez
by Melissa Wang, JAC Intern I send this one out To all the homeboys down in, uh, Clinton lockdown Rikers Island, all them dudes I was, uh, locked up with E block, F block, lower H N-I-C in Rikers Island Downstate All the peoples I met along the way Better days is comin' homeboy, keep …
