This article is about the promising administration of art therapy inside the prison setting. It features therapists, patients, and nonpatients, who are using art as therapy on their own. Prison art therapy is becoming increasingly popular as a treatment option … Continue reading
Through August 31st, you can purchase Black August – Los Angeles wall art prints for $200. That’s $96% off it’s $5,000 retail value. In Wikipedia, “Black August is an annual commemoration and prison-based holiday to remember Black freedom fighters and political … Continue reading
“Mother’s Day Cards by Prison Artists,” is an e-commerce specialty catalog of Mother’s Day cards by prison artists. Purchasing one of these original works of art printed on high-quality cardstock allows a prisoner to pay restitution, child support, court fines, … Continue reading
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
C-Note “they call him the Billboard Banksy.” San Jose, CA – “Look Up!” an art exhibition by California prison artist C-Note in the heart of Silicon Valley features Incarceration Nation, America’s Premier work of art on mass incarceration. “Look Up!” … Continue reading
One artist found the Internet as a means to give an exhibition during the Covid pandemic. 1-Artist; 1-Subject; 21-Works is an online exhibition of one of the globe’s leading prison artists, Donald “C-Note” Hooker. It is an exhibition that goes … Continue reading
During calendar year 2020 in the United States, the Coronavirus pandemic has shut down Prison Art exhibits, as well as Prison Art book promotions. Unlike running an errand to the grocery store with a wish list, some written, some created … Continue reading
In the midst of a Coronavirus quarantine, an exclusive prisoner edition of Marking Time is finding its way to American prisoners. The spring of 2020 began the official release of Marking Time: Art In The Age Of Mass Incarceration by Nicole R. … Continue reading
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
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
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