Teaching the arts behind bars / Rachel Marie-Crane Williams ; with a foreword by Buzz Alexander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Rachel Marie-Crane, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--Study and teaching.

Arts.

Prisoners--Education.

Prisoners.

Physical Description:

xvi, 193 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Northeastern University Press, [2003]

Summary:

A discussion of the challenges, rewards, ethical complexities, and emotional toll of working with inmates in adult and juvenile prisons, jails, and rehabilitation centers.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Mythology of the Corrections Community / Grady Hillman 14

Chapter 2 Common Sense and Common Ground: Survival Skills for Artists Working in Correctional Institutions / William Cleveland 28

Chapter 3 Doubtful Principles in Arts in Prisons / James Thompson 40

Chapter 4 Arts Programs in Recovery

Finding Out the Why / Pat MacEnulty 62

Chapter 5 The Sacred Circle / Leslie Neal 74

Chapter 6 "Like a Poet" / Judith Tannenbaum 80

Chapter 7 Us and Them / Jane Ellen Ibur 96

Chapter 8 Glass Walls / Terry Karson 106

Chapter 9 Smitty, Prayer, Astronomy, "Y2K and the Wicked Stepmother," and Asia Romero: Dimensions in the Work of the Prison Creative Arts Project / Buzz Alexander 125

Chapter 10 Learning to Teach by Traveling Inside: The Experience and Process of Mural Making in a Women's Correctional Facility / Rachel Marie-Crane Williams 138

Chapter 11 This Is for Anthony Beard / Susan Hill 153

Chapter 12 Evaluating Your Arts-in-corrections Program / Rachel Marie-Crane Williams 167.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189).

ISBN:

1555535682

1555535690

OCLC:

50669993