Welcome to the Prison Arts Coalition
The Prison Arts Coalition (PAC) is an independent space providing information and resources for people creating art in and around the American criminal justice system.
Please explore this site to
- learn more about the Coalition,
- follow regular blog posts,
- browse the gallery of artwork,
- check out events and jobs across the US,
- find art programs across the US, and
- search resources for books, articles, films, and other publications
About This Month’s Banner Image: Jail by Carlos Contreras
Congratulations to Carlos Contreras, winner of the Prison Arts Coalition Website Banner Competition! Carlos’s image is displayed on each page of the site and in the Gallery (click here to see the full image). Carlos will also receive a complimentary copy of Inside This Place, Not Of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons compiled and edited by Robin Levi and Ayelet Waldman.
As Carlos explains:
The banner is about how jail and the prison industrial complex affects families, not just individuals. It is about the chaos created in the world by incarceration and isolation, a real response to a growing problem in our society. I have worked in and around adult inmates for nearly five years now and I see daily the affects incarceration has on them – this piece speaks to that experience.
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Do you have an image you’d like to see as the banner on this site? Please contact us with your image(s).
