Ohio Prison Arts Connection

"I Have a Voice" at Heidelberg University, Sunday 10/17 at 4pm. Sign up for the streaming version here.

Building Bridges of Opportunity 2021 Community Experience

Register to screen the film APART

Read our OPAC Update for September

Ideastream Public Media - Poetic Reentry sound series

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Calling all justice-impacted Ohio artists!

ONTO LIFE'S PAGES poster show pop-up - recap

Outside Ohio: Oakdale Community Choir listening exchange

Visit Ohio Prison Arts Connection's Poster Shop!

OPAC Update, August 2021

COLUMBUS MONTHLY article about the poster commissioning initiative

Ideastream Public Media presents Poetic Reentry: From a Rooftop, a Beacon of Light

Writers in Residence is hiring!

Songs in the Key of Free - experience the album!

OPAC Update, July 2021

IMPRINTS virtual gallery from Clarity Ohio

Truth and Reconcilation Visual Art Exhibition at National Underground Railroad Freedom Center - July 16-Oct 31

Time Saved Vs Time Served Virtual Art Exhibit

Watch MUSIC BREAKS BARRIERS - Radio OPAC June 2021 - June 23 noon EST or any time after

Watch UNLOCKED: THE POWER OF THE ARTS IN PRISON (a short film by New York's Rehabilitation through the Arts)

Read the work of incarcerated young people in Montana, thanks to the Free Verse Project.

Listen to BRIDGES OF LOVE on Spotify.

Watch this panel on Arts and Reentry from Central Ohio's Reentry Week

Read our April OPAC Update.

Learn about Chicago's Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project

Register here! April 17, 1pm EST - ID 13 Prison Literacy Project virtual poetry reading.

Buy posters from People's Paper Co-Op to support mothers and caregivers coming home for Mother's Day.

Watch FROM NUMBER TO NAME, a brand-new play featuring experiences of API community members impacted by the justice system.

Watch Radio OPAC with Duarte Brown.

Follow updates about our poster commission project!

Register for Wexner Center's conversation "How do we get well? On public health and safety"

Watch this video about Kristina Wong's collaboration with East West Players to tell the story of API community members impacted by the justice system.

Watch this video about the Bridges of Love project from We Amplify Voices.

Read "We Own Our Words," a zine of art and writing from inside Washington Corrections Center for Women

Watch our Radio OPAC conversation with Heidi Arnold on her book BELLYFUL OF STONES, a compilation of her and her students' writing.

Read "Finding their Voices," an article about student-poets with the Writers in Residence cohort at Medina County Juvenile Detention Center.

Read "Through Cultures of Constraint and Care: The Relentless Art of Aimee Wissman" in Smithsonian's FOLKLIFE Magazine

FREE Registration for storytelling event from Healing Broken Circles - March 31, 7pm

Visit Michigan's Prison Creative Arts Project exhibition events.

Learn about Fringe Coffee House in Cincinnati.

Workshop on legal principles for artists from Ohio Arts Council.

Watch this conversation with Jody Kerchner and Jerome Thompson about singing in prison.

Listen to Radio OPAC with We Amplify Voices - and hear the song LIVING PROOF

Learn about Story Chain with Jonathan Platt and Mary Evans in conversation with Radio OPAC's Catherine Roma

Register to see NORTH COUNTRY BOUND, a play composed from interviews with corrections officers in New York.

Donate or contribute to support OPAC Creative Care Packages.

Learn about ID-13 Prison Literacy Project.

Read about the landmark 1957 production of WAITING FOR GODOT at San Quentin.

Read "The Breathtaking Ingenuity of Incarcerated Artists" by Leslie Jamison in THE ATLANTIC

Learn about Harmony Project.

Learn about LA County's Art for Healing and Justice Network here!

Register for Justice Arts Coalition's March 10 workshop on facilitating arts programs in carceral settings.

Watch our Radio OPAC interview with Ohio's Poet Laureate, Kari Gunter-Seymour.

Find out how you can support OPAC's Creative Care Packages.

Read about Writers in Residence, a writing program for incarcerated young people in northeast Ohio

Find the book PRISON THEATRE AND THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF INCARCERATION here.

Resources on person-first language from the Osborne Association

Read our February newsletter.

Read Speedo Green's memoir, SING FOR YOUR LIFE by Daniel Bergner

Learn about - and apply for - the Pulitzer Center's grant opportunity to engage in conversations around racial justice and other pressing issues.

Get tickets to stream Heartbeat Opera's BREATHING FREE, Feb 20-27!

Learn more about Radio OPAC

Learn about MyMusicEd, Deron Bell's innovative tools for music education that can be used even in places with few resources.

Find the book HOW MOMMY FOUND HER WAY BACK HOME by Annette Dominguez, Candace Paulucci, and Sheila Luther

Women artists who have been impacted by incarceration - here's a call for artwork!

Michael Powell (@blakk_sun) on singing, making art, and staying humble

Attend a performance by No Joke Theater, featuring performances of work written by incarcerated artists!

Watch Radio OPAC - 35 stories at the intersection of art and the justice system!

Learn about Wave Pool, our collaborators for last weekend's artist professional development workshops

We are working to learn about our community!