Prison Art Resources and Allies

PRISON ARTS RESOURCE PROJECT, An Annotated Bibliography
Published by National Endowment for the Arts, May 2014

The Museum for Black Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MBIE) in consultation with the Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice (IIPSJ), a leading source of legal scholarship, is undertaking a nationwide effort called Intellectual Property for Innovation (IPFI) to raise public awareness, particularly in underserved communities, of intellectual property, how to protect it, create it, commercialize it, and share it.

Creating Behind the Razor Wire: An Overview of Arts in Corrections in the U.S.

The Prison Arts Coalition

Established in 2008, the Prison Arts Coalition (PAC) serves as a national network for prison arts in the United States.

Judith Tannenbaum, poet and author of (among others):
Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin
By Heart: Poetry, Prison and Two Lives
Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts

Spoon Jackson, poet, serving a life sentence in California prisons since 1977, published two books, including, By Heart: Poetry, Prison and Two Lives and Spoon is featured in the documentary At Night I Fly.

Phyllis Kornfeld’s Cellblock Visions is a beautiful collection of visual art made by people in prison

Blue Mountain Center Prison Session – Video of writers, artists and activists about their work in prisons.

Community Arts Network Reading Room – Essays for Arts and Corrections

Center for the Study of Art and Communities – writing by William Cleveland