Prison Art on Instagram

In searching for 25 of Prison art’s most beautiful women, uploaded artworks by prisoners to Instagram proved to be invaluable. According to Statista, “In 2020, 87 percent of surveyed art buyers claimed to use Instagram to find new artists, whereas … Continue reading

Stanford University Provides Lecture on Art Made Behind America’s Prison Walls.

On Thursday, January 16th, on the campus of Stanford University’s Oshman Hall, in the McMurtry Building, from 5:30 pm, to 7:00 pm, will be a lecture from Rutgers University Professor, Nicole Fleetwood. Her lecture is a part of Stanford’s Department … Continue reading

Agnes Gund, Prison Art’s $100,000,000 Patron

One percenters’ unbridled social justice money, could see a boon in Contemporary Art Market for Prison Art. In 2017, 81-year-old Agnes Gund, American philanthropist, arts patron, collector, and social justice warrior, revealed she sold her 1962 Roy Lichtenstein’s Masterpiece for … Continue reading

AI WEIWEI ALCATRAZ EXHIBITION & THE RISE OF THE THIRD GRACE IN THE THREE GRACES OF AN ART MOVEMENT.

Could Ai Weiwei’s Art exhibition at the federal prison on Alcatraz Island raise the status of Prison Art? Our most Googled tweet, was when we declared “Street Art to replace the lull in art movements since Pop Art .” Street … Continue reading