In 1977, Murray was offered a full-time role as the prison’s fine arts instructor, which he held till he retired in 2003 and, even then, continued to return as a substitute teacher. It was also at the ...

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 ...

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.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the art world, collectors pay huge sums for rarities. One of only four surviving copies of the original German poster for the ...