Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WILLIMANTIC — A major showcase of prison art is currently on display at Eastern Connecticut State University. The exhibition will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 22—Toilet paper, tissue and cigarette wrappers. Prison inmates use the items most of us toss to create art. Open at the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

As a trans woman, her work is less likely to receive the notice and acclaim garnered by her cisgender peers. As an incarcerated artist, prison rules mount higher hurdles to even expressing her ...

SPENCERTOWN, N.Y. — Art hangs in every corner of Phyllis Kornfeld’s Stockbridge apartment — a collection of work by her students, accrued over four decades of workshops. No two pieces are the same: a ...

If William Murray created a painting he wasn’t happy with, he wouldn’t disregard it and start over on a fresh canvas, as some artists might. Instead, his wife, Angie Murray, said, he would keep ...

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 ...

COMMENTARY: The wrongly imprisoned, like Cardinal George Pell, the Carmelite martyrs and Jimmy Lai, use the arts to raise their hearts to God, offering a certain interior freedom, even contact with ...