Media Coverage
“Arts In Corrections – A Glowing Hope” by Boston Woodard, Community Alliance features artwork from SQ artists
http://www.fresnoalliance.com/home/magazine/2008/2008_CA_Aug_web.pdf
Art Behind Bars, by Alastair Bland, Good Times Weekly, April 2, 2008
http://www.gtweekly.com/a-e/art/art-behind-bars
Brothers in Pen: A Means of Escape by San Quentin Nine
http://www.lulu.com/content/1663453
Intersection for the Arts Prison Project and Prison/Culture day @ SFSU w/, March 1, 2008
http://www.theintersection.org/prisonproject/
“The Prison Project” by Jolene Torr, photos by Evan Loewy, Juxtapose Art and Culture Magazine, 22 February 2008
http://www.juxtapoz.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2600&Itemid=62
Tower Book travels to England in “Black/White [and Read]” Exhibition at the School of Art, Media and Design, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, 28th January – 16th March 2008
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/bwread08.htm
“Bringing Arts to the California Prisons – The William James Association of Santa Cruz celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Prison Arts Project, bringing arts programs to the California state prisons” KUSP’s Robert Pollie speaks to key participants, including instructors and inmates, about the history and impact of the project. Aired March 31, 2008. Audio:
http://www.centralcoastpublicradio.org/ondemand/get/totb-2008-03-31.m3u
“The Bard behind bars” in Date Lines by Robert Hurwitt, Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, February 29, 2008
http://www.sfisonline.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/29/DDTGULUEO.DTL&hw=witty&sn=006&sc=623
“The Bard behind bars at San Quentin State Prison” by John Dugan, Marin Independent Journal, March 4, 2008
http://www.marinij.com/ci_8445958?source=most_emailed
“Shakespeare at San Quentin” Reporter Judy Campbell for The California Report Magazine – KQED Public Radio, March 7, 2008 “For inmates at San Quentin Prison, a trip to the theatre is out of the question. This week, the Arts in Corrections program at the prison put on Shakespeare’s play “Much Ado About Nothing” — performed for and with prisoners.” Audio:
http://www.kqed.org/servlets/playClip?programId=RD8&episodeId=R803071630&segment=d
Shakespeare Journeys Inside San Quentin Prison by Denise Battista, PlayShakespeare.com March 30, 2008.
http://www.playshakespeare.com/content/view/3594/452/
“Shakespeare goes to prison – San Quentin inmates break through their inner walls in ‘Much Ado’ production” by Jacob Shafer, Pacific Sun News, March 5, 2008.
http://www.pacificsun.com/news/show_story.php?id=337
MSNBC TV recorded various SQ inmate bands for use in their show Lockup: San Quentin-Extended Stay
The following are from 2007, but I don’t believe we included it in past reports to Kalliopeia. One is a wonderful spread on the visual arts program and the other is an inside view into the collaboration with Santa Clara University:
“Arts in Corrections: San Quentin” by Buck Austin, Alarm Magazine, August 15, 2007
http://www.alarmpress.com/978/art-interview/arts-in-corrections-san-quentin/
“Shakespeare at San Quentin – Santa Clara University Students Perform Shakespeare For and With Inmates” by Aldo Billingslea, Chair & Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance. Published in Explore:
http://www.scu.edu/ignatiancenter/publications/explore/spring2007/section06.cfm
