Call for Teaching Artists – Santa Cruz
William James Association’s Community Youth Arts Project is looking for visual artists to teach teenagers in Alternative High Schools throughout Santa Cruz County. The mission of the Community Youth Arts Project (CYAP) is to provide quality, in-depth arts...SVSP Writers on “First Person Singular” Podcast from KUSP
These pieces were written and recorded by students of Magdalena Zschokke in an Arts in Corrections Creative Writing Class at Salinas Valley State Prison in the spring of 2015. Magdalena the Inventor —April 6, 2015 Trey divides his time —April 22,...San Quentin Bands featured at SQ Music Lockdown: Sweetwater Benefit
Using video projection, three San Quentin Bands played alongside Marin County bands Beso Negro and This Old Earthquake at SQ Music Lockdown: Sweetwater Benefit in support of Prison Music & Art, Sweetwater Music Hall, February 8, 2014.  The legendary nightclub...“God’s Trombones†at the Central California Women’s Facility, April 29, 2014
Some 300 women prisoners, a dozen prison staff, and a select group of outside visitors were given a profoundly moving and uplifting presentation of James Weldon Johnson’s “God’s Trombones†this past Tuesday evening at CCWF, Chowchilla. The power of music and...The Last Inmate to Escape From ALCATRAZ
by Tim Fitzmaurice It began in the rather innocuous and studiously unassertive surroundings of a church hall, in Santa Cruz, the kind with folding chairs and a kitchen you can access through a narrow window. It was the Friday performance of the play “In the Kitchen...
In support of the Prison Arts Project