The Chrysler Museum of Art invited inmates in local jails to submit works that personalize their stories, illustrate life ...

Community members packed the February 7 opening reception of the "Art from the Inside Out" exhibition at PS1 South, giving me ...

Faith Ringgold painted a vibrant mural at the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island. A few years later, it was ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

The feeling of looking at the visual art piece “Home” has changed for Tom Mosser, and many of the artists who contributed a ...

Lawyers for 25,000 people incarcerated in Arizona have asked a judge to take over health care operations in state-run prisons and appoint an official to run them.

In 1977, Murray was offered a full-time role as the prison’s fine arts instructor, which he held till he retired in 2003 and, ...

As the film tells it, the story of this mural is also that of the crisis at Rikers and of “prison” in spectacular decay — ...

The Vatican expects more than 10,000 people from across the wider art and cultural environments — hailing from over 100 countries and five continents — to participate in events over the four days.

"Seen," at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, pairs together artists living inside and outside of prison facilities.

A unique and groundbreaking exhibition from Fife College, Connections: Beyond, is set to open later this month.

Though he organized the Hutchinson Center for the Arts’ newest exhibit, Eric Schwarze doesn’t think of himself as an artist. “I just kind of tinker and make fun things,” the owner of ...