There is more creative spirit and talent among incarcerated people than you might think.
Check out the special exhibition of artworks by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists at MoMA PS1 in New York. Concluding April 4, the exhibition can be viewed virtually through the Bloomberg Connects app. Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration is the product of 35 artists – each of whom has experienced the prison system. You can read a review by Griffin Oleynick here.
(Collection Ellen Driscoll/Courtesy of MoMa PS1)
Two of our Hope-Western Prison Education Program students are talented visual artists. Here are a few examples of their work.
These two works were created as part of a final project in Professor Pam Bush’s Communicating With Courage and Compassion course, and summarize the student-artists’ transformation through non-violent communication:
