“Apokaluptein: 16389067” is what artist Jesse Krimes dubbed his prison contraband — a project so off-limits, he had to create it behind bars in secret and smuggle it out. The work happened piecemeal ...

When Manuel Basaba became incarcerated just after high school, he never dreamed he would one day help other prisoners at his own art gallery. Now on the other side, Manuel, the owner of Mesheeka ...

An exhibition of art created by state prison inmates will open at the University of Delaware on Tuesday, Feb. 6, with a reception featuring a conversation with one of the artists and the UD student ...

Isaac Scott has an unconventional resume. As a young man (born and raised) in Harlem, NY, searching for a father figure, he turned to drug dealing and street life. He cycled through home, streets and ...

(Photo by Keisha Scarville. Originally published in Vice Magazine's Prison Issue, October 2015) More than 40 years have passed since Arts in Corrections, one of the first prison art programs of its ...

Sep. 22—Toilet paper, tissue and cigarette wrappers. Prison inmates use the items most of us toss to create art. Open at the Museum of International Folk Art, "Between the Lines" aims to humanize the ...

Over the past ten years, the FSU Department of Art Education has teamed up with the FSU Department of Interior Architecture and Design to co-host the Art and Design for Social Justice Symposium.

Danny Killion, now of Troy, NY, was suicidal when he first entered Cheshire Correctional Institution to serve time for a string of bank robberies. But eventually he found an outlet for his pain in art ...

The University of Wyoming, in collaboration with Paño Connections Traveling Prison Art Exhibition and Programming, will feature a series of events both on campus and off Thursday-Friday, Sept. 25-26, ...

Not too long ago, I received an email from a long-time friend and colleague who was then a warden for a men’s prison. Known for her forward-thinking and support for programming and education, she has ...

Among life’s inescapable truisms: One thing leads to another. For some, the pathway is straight and clear-cut, for others, ragged and ambiguous. Daniel Killion is one of the others. Danny Killion is ...