Prison Arts Blog

Steamroller Print Project Event

TAKING LIBERTIES: THE HORRORS AND HUMANITIES OF INCARCERATION JUST ARTISTS!, William James Association Tuesday, March 26, 2024 11:10 am Commons: Panel discussion: Arts in Corrections with returning residents and instructors  12:00 - 2:00 pm Parking Lot 8: Live...

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, environment,...

Pelican Bay UNLOCKED, Episode 4: World On Fire

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

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 five year...

Links in the Time of Coronavirus

CA Arts Council COVID-19 News and Resources Poets & Writers: Resources for Writers in the Time of Coronavirus COVID-19 & Freelance Artists Artist Relief Fund Grants Springboard for the Arts – Emergency Resources for Artists Emergency Resource List,...

CDCR COVID-19: Updated FAQs

From: Krissi Khokhobashvili, Chief of Office of External Affairs California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation March 18, 2020 Thank you all for your patience and cooperation as we work to prevent the spread of COVID-19 into our institutions. We understand...

What is Art?

Art is a mindset that is realized, an emotion that needs to be expressed, an energy that needs to be released and a spirit that needs to be calmed. Art is expressed in many different ways: Painting, drawing, sculpting, carving, singing, writing, performed, played,...