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WI Books to Prisoners: artwork by prisoners and others wanted

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

WANTED ? ARTWORK BY PRISONERS AND OTHERS Wisconsin Books to Prisoners was the recipient of a powerful set of posters created by 20 printmakers from the JUSTSEEDS Visual Resistance art collective. These posters were created in anticipation of the 10th anniversary of Critical Resistance, a prison abolitionist movement, and call attention to the human rights catastrophe in U.S. jails and prisons, and the use of policing, prisons and punishment as a ?solution? to social, political and economic problems. The posters and artwork by prisoners and others will be displayed at a gallery in Madison at the end of January 2009. Art that addresses the condition of prisons and the daily drudgery and cruelties of prison life would be particularly appreciated...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 23, 2008 (boomark / email).