The Prison Arts Collective (PAC) is excited to join the 2025 Justice + Art Jam at the Los Angeles State Historic Park on May 24, 2025. This is a free event, open to all designed to offer practical support, promote dynamic expression and the realization of a community-minded, compassionate city. With CDCR approval, PAC plans to showcase drawn and painted artworks by our participants at the local California
Institute for Women (CIW). In response to the participants’ call for exhibition opportunities, PAC’s Teaching Artists have invited the women at CIW to create site specific works especially for the community event and for those attending! At the event, PAC Teaching Artists and Alumni will invite visitors to respond creatively to each of their artworks in hope to establish innovative and personalized connections.
PAC’s community space at the Justice + Art Jam will be made up of two bright, open-air tents (weather-permitting), invitingly adorned with colored signage and photographs. Within the tents, creative tables will be set up where visitors
can participate in the responsive art-making project and art supply preparation for the participants inside Centinela State Prison, the California Institute for Men and CIW. A list of the participant’s first names will be provided so that visitors, again, can personalize their creations and supplies. PAC’s participation at the Justice + Art Jam offers us an opportunity to engage a wider community to be creative, provide practical support and to reflect on our belief that ‘art is a human right’.