Prison Arts in the News

For sometime now I have been collecting snippets of info from the web relating to the arts in prison. I do not offer any editorial comment on the quality of each link - I just wanted to put the them all in one place. I hope it is of interest and/or use to someone.

Monday, 31 January 2011

Review of 'Insider Art' book about Prisoner Art

http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/article.php?sid=4518
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Labels: Australia, Matthew Meadows, Misc, UK, Visual Arts

Saturday, 29 January 2011

State ban on the sale of prisoner art, Queensland, Australia

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/draconian-ban-on-prisoner-art-marks-a-return-to-the-penal-dark-ages/story-e6frgczx-1225996141916
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Labels: Australia, Misc

Monday, 24 January 2011

Music Therapy in Tihar Prison, India

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Tihar-begins-music-therapy-to-fight-inmates-depression/Article1-653883.aspx

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Jailhouse-rock--in-Tihar-Jail/Article1-670184.aspx
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Labels: Arts Therapies, India, Music

Sunday, 23 January 2011

Young Offenders respond to National Gallery Collection, London, UK

http://www.hounslowchronicle.co.uk/west-london-news/local-hounslow-news/2011/02/01/feltham-inmates-art-to-be-displayed-in-national-gallery-109642-28093937/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/feb/01/young-offenders-art-national-gallery 

http://www.hounslowchronicle.co.uk/west-london-news/local-hounslow-news/2011/03/02/fears-over-feltham-prison-art-project-funding-109642-28267115/

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=44374

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/inside-art-2011
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Labels: National Gallery, UK, Visual Arts

Saturday, 22 January 2011

Exhibition of Art from Angola Prison, Louisiana, USA

http://alcoholicoutsiderartist.blogspot.com/2011/01/angola-project.html
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Labels: Prospect, USA, Visual Arts

Friday, 21 January 2011

Prisoner Photographic Portraits, Louisiana, USA

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128212442



http://prisonmovement.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/one-big-self-prisoners-of-louisiana/


Deborah Luster Main Page - http://www.edelmangallery.com/luster-main.htm
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Labels: Deborah Luster, Photography, USA

Thursday, 20 January 2011

The Story of the Lost Painting from Rikers Island, New York, USA

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2010/10/25/101025ta_talk_mead#ixzz12yZeTLWI
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Labels: USA, Visual Arts

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Juvenile Offender Art Exhibition, Texas, USA

http://www.ultimateeastend.com/stories/228164-exhibit-fundraiser-to-feature-art-of-juvenile-offenders

Children's Prison Arts Project http://www.childrensprisonart.org/
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Labels: Children's Prison Arts Project, USA, Visual Arts

Tuesday, 18 January 2011

Examples of Prisoner Art including Tattooed Cups, California, USA

http://www.frank151.com/book/chap29/prison_arts

More examples of Tattooed Cups here http://prisonartwear.com/tattoed-cups/
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Labels: USA, Visual Arts

Thursday, 13 January 2011

The Internet Phenomemon that is the Dancing Prisoners of Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines

This is the link for the Youtube Channel for Byron F Garcia - the man responsible for organising and filming the original performance of prisoners recreating the dance routine from Michael Jackson's Thriller. The original version has now been viewed over 46 million times...

http://www.youtube.com/user/byronfgarcia#p/u/6/hMnk7lh9M3o

And now it is starting tohappen in other Philippine prisons http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/01/23/11/cebu-jails-michael-jackson-brings-dance-moves-muntinlupa
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Labels: Dance, Philippines

Tour of Show based on Canadian Women's Experience of Prison, Canada

http://www.hour.ca/stage/stage.aspx?iIDArticle=21071

http://www.zeitgeisttheatrecollective.com/
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Labels: Canada, Theatre/Drama, Zeitgeist Theatre Collective

Sunday, 9 January 2011

Music Videos with Juvenile Prisoners, Vancouver, Canada

http://www.vancouverobserver.com/blogs/ethicalhustle/2011/01/06/reel-youth-helps-incarcerated-kids-create-life-changing-music-videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_7ze01fiXw


Company Website http://reelyouth.ca/index.html

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Labels: Canada, Film/Video, Music, Reel Youth

Thursday, 6 January 2011

Prisoner Art for Sale in Peru

http://c-monster.net/blog1/tag/andean-mummies/
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Labels: Peru, Visual Arts

Wednesday, 5 January 2011

Juvenile Prisoners do Shakespeare, Cape Town, South Africa

http://www.scpr.org/news/2011/01/04/bringing-the-bard-behind-bars-in-south-africa/
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Labels: South Africa, Theatre/Drama

Prison Creative Arts Project, Michigan, USA

http://www.askaninmate.com/2011/01/prison-creative-arts-project-pcap/

Video footage of discussion with Prison Creative Arts Project


http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/08/23/alexander

http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2010/09/ann_arbor_u_of.html
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Labels: Literature/Creative Writing, Theatre/Drama, USA, Visual Arts

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

Prisoner Tattoos, USA

A selection Robert Gumpert's Photos of prisoner tattoos
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Labels: Misc, USA

Prison Art Exhibition, Goa, India

Exhibition of prisoner art in Goa, India
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Labels: India, Visual Arts

Italian Director in Roumieh Prison, Lebanon

Italian Director to facilitate a theatre workshop in Roumieh prison - iloubnan.info

http://www.iloubnan.info/artsandculture/actualite/id/41059/titre/Launching-of-%E2%80%9CTheatre-in-Prison%E2%80%9D,-between-Lebanon-and-Italy-at-Unesco-Palace
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Labels: Lebanon, Theatre/Drama
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