Is William Martinez not our brother? : twenty years of the Prison Creative Arts Project

Is William Martinez not our brother? : twenty years of the Prison Creative Arts Project /

Prisons are an invisible, but dominant, part of American society: the United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world. In Michigan, the number of prisoners rose from 3,000 in 1970 to more than 50,000 by 2008, a shift that Buzz Alexander witnessed firsthand when he came to t...

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Author / Contributor: Alexander, William, 1938-2019 (Author)
Imprint: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press : University of Michigan Library, [2010]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Prison Creative Arts Project > History.
Prison Creative Arts Project
Arts in prisons > Michigan.
Prisoners as artists > Michigan.
Community arts projects > Michigan.
Prisoners > Education > Michigan.
Series:New public scholarship.
Table of Contents:
  • The beginning
  • Is William Martinez not our brother?
  • The University courses
  • The Workshops
  • A Matter of Language
  • This is our bridge ... and we built it ourselves : The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners
  • Is the Scapegoat Not Our Brother?
  • The Prison Creative Arts Project : crafted out of newspaper, modge podge, paint, and glitter
  • Failure
  • The PCAP Associates : places like Rwanda.

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