Recently at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison 30 miles up the river from New York City, several painters gathered for an art show.
Journalists incarcerated at San Quentin produce a monthly broadsheet newspaper. Cowboys locked up at the Louisiana State Penitentiary perform at the Angola Prison Rodeo . Recently, at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison thirty miles up the river from New York City, several painters gathered for an art show. “There was a second earlier today when I thought this wasn’t going to happen,” Ryan Lawrence, who wore wire-frame glasses and paint-splattered work boots, said.
In the school building, a classroom overlooked the A Block yard, which was ringed in razor wire. Iron bars on the windows, instructional posters taped to the walls. Visual artists living in B Block and Five Building mingled with actors and singers from Seven Building. Spectators from the Honor Housing Unit, who had just finished a dinner of whitefish with white rice and greenish vegetables, took their seats.
The exhibition was hosted by Rehabilitation Through the Arts, a nonprofit that works with dancers, actors, poets, and artists at six prisons in New York. R.T.A.’s teachers have put on art classes, workshops, and performances with the aim of helping people in prison develop life skills. The show was the brainchild of Plank, who said he wanted more attention for visual artists. “I came up with the idea for an in-house art show because I wanted to show love to the guys,” he said.
Plank introduced a few artists, who stood before a chalkboard to discuss their work. First up, Gary Butler: “I think this piece is about all the ongoing debate about global warming and fossil fuels and all that kind of stuff. ” His painting showed a woman in a liquid shawl floating above a crystalline river, which was certainly not the Hudson.
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