As the film tells it, the story of this mural is also that of the crisis at Rikers and of “prison” in spectacular decay — ...

The Vatican expects more than 10,000 people from across the wider art and cultural environments — hailing from over 100 countries and five continents — to participate in events over the four days.

If a library is dimly lit, you go to an Ivy League school. If a library is dimly lit and there are cameras everywhere, you ...

The thought of prison takes one’s mind to cold, sterile cells, barbed wires, and the weight of past mistakes. It’s easy to ...

But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister’s office on day 129 of a hunger strike, she was just a mother — a mom trying to win freedom for her son who has ...

Valentino Valdez was given his birth certificate, his Social Security card, a T-shirt, and khaki pants when he was released ...

Jermaine Archer did time in Sing Sing and has been tapped to lead the prison-arts group that inspired the Oscar-nominated ...

The Northwestern Prison Education Program, which provides incarcerated students with bachelor’s degrees through NU, ...

“I am in prison, not free, and without any rights,” he told us. Other times, the artwork responded directly to the men’s day-to-day conditions of confinement. One of al-Alwi’s early pieces was a model ...

Over the course of a decade, Nicole Fleetwood interviewed over 6,000 incarcerated artists about their experiences creating art in prison, an environment where space, materials and time are limited.

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You cut that out of schools, there's - I feel like there's a path to the prison industrial complex. Art is not frivolous. Art connects us, and we need it in our society. We need it in our schools.