Banksy appears to have thrown his support behind a campaign to turn a former prison in the English town of Reading into an arts venue, a town spokesman said on Thursday, after the street artist ...

The Prison Reimagined: Presidential Portrait Project exhibition features artwork by incarcerated artists critiquing the U.S. justice system and is on display at President Lincoln's Cottage in ...

Four years ago, when Debra Brehmer opened an envelope she received in the mail, tiny stamp-sized paintings tumbled out onto her desk. The 1-by-1-inch artworks were abstract images of landscapes in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. This article is more than 4 years old. Every year, this ...

Incarcerated individuals from the Ohio Reformatory for Women, Pickaway Correctional Institution and Madison Correctional Institution flourish tissue paper sunflowers during a morning performance at ...

(Photo by Keisha Scarville. Originally published in Vice Magazine's Prison Issue, October 2015) More than 40 years have passed since Arts in Corrections, one of the first prison art programs of its ...

LAKE STEVENS — A Bic pen and a prison sentence changed his life. What’s up with that? Gabriel Herrera, 40, is trying to make a name for himself as an artist using cheap blue pens. He started drawing ...

The artist Kenneth Webb, a free man granted early parole after 16 years in prison, smiles as he talks about an experience that he thought he might never have—the chance to see a major solo show of his ...

Not too long ago, I received an email from a long-time friend and colleague who was then a warden for a men’s prison. Known for her forward-thinking and support for programming and education, she has ...

A formerly incarcerated Germantown artist has found an unusual partner to help bring to light issues of the criminal justice system: a wine company. The Prisoner, which is based in Napa Valley, ...

LONDON (AP) — Banksy appears to have thrown his support behind a campaign to turn a former prison in the English town of Reading into an arts venue, a town spokesman said on Thursday, after the street ...