by Hannah Teich, JAC Web Team Intern I first came across JAC last fall, on an aimless Google search for something like “prison + art.” At the time, I, like all of us, was home, feeling mostly restless and isolated, untethered from the everyday rhythms of normal non-pandemic life. For the past few months, I …
Tag: mass incarceration
Guest Blog: Dorothy Maraglino – A Day in My Box
by Dorothy Maraglino A Day in My Box About 4 AM, the lights slam on obliterating the dark from my box. I curse the inventor of the mega watt lightbulb. Breakfast is placed on the food flap ledge for me to debate to eat or not. What's left is picked up 30 minutes later. About …
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Inside & Out Exhibition Spotlight: Michelle Repiso and Treacy Ziegler
Justice Arts Coalition (JAC) is excited to announce our inaugural online exhibition: Inside & Out: Photorealists to Minimalists. Amid growing calls for transformative justice and the abolition of our country’s criminal legal system, artists can play a unique role in envisioning and implementing new ways of approaching conflict, building community, and fostering healing. By changing …
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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 …
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 …