Art in Prison: Incarcerated People Deserve Space to Be Creative by Rose McAdoo

In this episode of Eat, Drink, and Do Good, pastry chef Rose McAdoo writes on the importance of creating space for art inside carceral systems.

Read Rose's piece at www.studioatao.org/newsletter. Some additional resources on this topic recommended by the author are:

Readings

• Formerly Incarcerated Artists Visualize Healing by Jasmine Weber

• Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole R. Fleetwood

• Chasing Me To My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert

Watch & Listen

• 13th by Ava DuVernay

• Life on the Outside — a podcast that shares stories about returning to society after decades of incarceration

Resources & Organizations to Support

• Brush up on current statistics on the Equal Justice Initiative website

• Financially support carceral artists through the Art for Justice Fund

• Connect with an incarcerated pen pal through the pARTner project at Justice Arts Coalition

• Consider presenting your art with the Prison Arts Collective

• Purchase your next set of gifts from formerly incarcerated artists at Forgive Everyone Co.