How inmates at California prisons experience positive, healing effects through art, music, and creative writing is the topic of a film showing, expert lectures, and the opening of an inmate art exhibit Sept. 28 and 29, hosted by the Washington State University Dept. of English. All are free and open to the public.
Events on those days include:
- 7-8:30 p.m. Mon., Sept. 28, in Todd 216
Screening of “At Night I Fly: Images from New Folsom” with discussion and a Q&A with former Arts in Corrections (AIC) director Jim Carlson - 5-6:30 p.m. Tues., Sept. 29, in the Bundy Reading Room of Avery Hall
Exhibit reception and opening of “Outsider Art: Work from New Folsom Prison, 1994-2014,” curated by Anna Plemons, Dept. of English, who studies prison writing programs and has taught creative nonfiction at New Folsom since 2009. (The prisoners’ art will be displayed through Feb. 2016; faculty wishing to arrange a class visit can contact the Dept. of English.) - 7 p.m., Tues., Sept. 29, Todd 216
Carol Hinds, AIC advocate and mother of a New Folsom inmate, will present “Re-imagining Rehabilitation: A Mother’s Story.” Her son began serving a 25-to-life sentence at New Folsom prison, near Sacramento, in 2000.
Because topics in the two-day program relate to those in this year’s Common Reading book, “Just Mercy,” by Bryan Stevenson, the common reading stamp will be available at each of these three events.
