A Jail Artwork Group On the Energy of an Annual Exhibition in Michigan to Assist Extra Than 700 Incarcerated Artists — Colossal



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“Self Portrait: Free Inside” by Jamal Biggs

As abolitionists and activists struggle to finish mass incarceration and the horrifying circumstances of life in U.S. prisons, people and organizations have taken it upon themselves to assist these trapped within the unjust system. The Jail Artistic Arts Mission has been enterprise such work for many years, bringing its group on the College of Michigan along with these instantly affected by the carceral system via workshops, studying alternatives, and an annual exhibition.

Artwork was an out-of-body expertise as a result of while you’re in that sort of atmosphere, there’s normally a variety of violence or only a bunch of unhappy stuff. Artwork was a pathway to freedom on the skin.—Josh Herrera

On this dialog, Colossal managing editor Grace Ebert speaks with two previously incarcerated artists, Johnny Van Patten and Josh Herrera, and college director Nora Krinitsky about how artistic practices perform whereas incarcerated, why exhibiting and promoting work is crucial to the method, and what the humanity of artwork means in a system constructed on dehumanization.

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“Fence” by Kenneth Gourlay, a member of the Linkage Mission

The 2022 exhibition ‘Shared Humanity.’ Photograph by Nathan Kennedy

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#social justice

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