{"id":27500,"date":"2018-04-16T16:57:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=27500"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:57:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:57:57","slug":"art-behind-bars-the-talents-of-incarcerated-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/art-behind-bars-the-talents-of-incarcerated-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Behind Bars: The Talents of Incarcerated Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"
The visual arts have long served as an emotional outlet or a medium for catharsis in pretty much every culture around the globe; and yet, only in recent times have we seen art-making become an established form of psychotherapy. All over the world, hospitals, clinics, and correctional institutions have adopted art therapy as a means of rehabilitation for a broad range of health problems and mental disorders. For some, it remains a private means of dealing with individual trauma; but for a select few, their art has garnered them public recognition through exhibitions at galleries, especially through organizations that display the works of incarcerated artists such as Minutes Before Six<\/a> and the Prison Arts Coalition<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Today we’d like to share some of our favorite pieces from artists who were, at some point in their lives, deemed unfit for society and unleashed their creativity behind bars. Some are still incarcerated, a few even awaiting execution. Whatever the sentence, their isolation seems to inspire a unique and genuine expression of life through art. See for yourself:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jon Cashion’s “Seeing Within”<\/p>\n