Prison Creative Arts Project
Outstanding Achievement by a Student Organization in Literary Arts
Outstanding Achievement by a Student Organization in Community Arts Engagement
Lifting Voices Award for a Student Organization giving voice to underrepresented communities and stories
Through the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), students and community members facilitate theater, creative writing, and visual art workshops in seven MI prisons and Washtenaw County Jail. Additionally, PCAP houses the largest and longest running exhibition for incarcerated artists in the world each spring. Students participate in art selection, exhibition planning, and gallery installation. PCAP also publishes an annual literary review featuring work from incarcerated writers, edited by students. PCAP's student choir, Out of the Blue, tours MI prisons, performing six concerts each year.
Events this year included:
-Paint Outs in June, July, and October
-Art Auction in December
-Art selection trips in the fall for the upcoming (March) 29th Art Exhibition featuring work from incarcerated artists in MI -31 creative arts workshops facilitated inside MI prisons
-We Roar collaboration: major exhibition of art with incarcerated artists from the UK and in MI, shown in both the UK and US
-Julius Caeser play touring MI prisons
-Out of the Blue choir touring MI prisons- 6 concerts total
-Creation of Dropped Keys Theater Company, toured original play "With Love, From Inside"