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January 16, 2007
Prison Poster Project Is Seeking Illustrators
The Prison Poster Project is Desperately Seeking Illustrators
For the past 4 years, a collective of artists and activists on the outside have been working along side of artists and activists behind the walls to design a poster that could be used as an educational tool to raise awareness about the current state of the criminal IN-justice system. Together we have interviewed, studied, met, and dialogued about what to put in this poster and create it.
We are almost done! We desperately need more help illustrating, especially from women!
If you are currently locked up, like to draw, and would like to help out, please get in touch. Please also enclose a sample of your drawing style so we can figure out how best to fit you into the project. We are asking that all illustrators who participate send a drawing and a self portrait. Please send any drawing sample or letter of interest to:
The Prison Poster Project
PO Box 71357 Pittsburgh, PA 15213
If you are not incarcerated but know an artist who is, please put them in contact with us either by sharing our info with them or sharing their info with us. You can email their name, doc # and address to de_tritus@yahoo.com or call 412-802-8575 for more information.
All drawings are donations to the project. All people involved in creating the illustration will receive documentation of the project. The PPP is 100% volunteer and not for profit.
The drawing is a little like a quilt with a cross section of a prison, then illustrations in cells and rooms of the prison. If you decide you would like to participate you will choose or be designated a topic and hooked up with an outside collective member. The member will send you a template and ideas on the issue that were generated over the years. Some topics that still need to be illustrated are: protest from within, jailhouse lawyer, creating family on the inside, the INS, racism on the inside, tear gas, the visiting room, domestic violence survivor, issues specific to women, and the cafeteria. Please let us know if youʼre interested in illustrating any of these ideas.
Because art impacts us on a level that keeps us inspired, enlightened, and committed, we believe that this poster will be an extremely effective tool for educating and motivating people around criminal justice system issues. Art speaks a universal language, helping to build coalitions that transcend race, class, gender, and geographic lines, and making knowledge accessible to our diverse communities. We are creating a poster that is the combined effort of many different people, using art to cross prison walls and unify us in a struggle for a more just and compassionate tomorrow.
Posted by lois at January 16, 2007 10:09 PM