WJA 50th Anniversary Celebration
Celebrating and Thanking Our Community! Previous Next A two-day event was held in December to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the William James Association and the 46th anniversary of the Prison Arts Project. The event was full of art workshops, delicious food,...
Celebrating 50 years + Change of Venue!
ATTENTION: CHANGE OF VENUE! We are now meeting on Sunday, December 17th at Barrios Unidos, located at 1807 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062. The William James Association staff and board invite you to join us in celebrating fifty years of fostering arts,...
Pelican Bay UNLOCKED, Episode 4: World On Fire
Pelican Bay UNLOCKED, Episode 4: World On Fire Calls from prison are always poignant. You do what you can to dispel the distance and connect with the thin, tinny voice coming at you over institutional wires. You share lives and days and hopes and fears–even...
Art Takes Down Walls
I was a participant in WJA’s Prison Arts Project (aka Arts in Corrections) for six years (2003-2009) in San Quentin Prison. That was eleven years, 2 prisons, a four-and-a-half-hour board of paroles hearing, and three years on parole ago. I am about to hit my...
In support of the Prison Arts Project