Changemakers' Guide to Prison Arts Programming
Bridging the Gap
Published on 2. April 2026
236 pages
978-1-040-64626-7 (ISBN)
Description
Changemakers' Guide to Prison Arts Programming explores practical tips and stories from the field about developing arts programs for incarcerated individuals.
This book is based on more than ten years of experience, during which Annie Buckley developed two in-depth programs with prisons in California, with a focus on one, Prison Arts Collective, which has brought arts programming to over 9,500 people since 2013. The book offers step-by-step guidance on developing comprehensive, meaningful, and student-centered programming behind bars, to build programs in and with carceral institutions specifically. It also explores themes of hope and transformation, interconnection and mutuality, and grief and loss.
Changemakers' Guide to Prison Arts Programming is an essential tool for university faculty and others seeking to start similar programmes.
This book is based on more than ten years of experience, during which Annie Buckley developed two in-depth programs with prisons in California, with a focus on one, Prison Arts Collective, which has brought arts programming to over 9,500 people since 2013. The book offers step-by-step guidance on developing comprehensive, meaningful, and student-centered programming behind bars, to build programs in and with carceral institutions specifically. It also explores themes of hope and transformation, interconnection and mutuality, and grief and loss.
Changemakers' Guide to Prison Arts Programming is an essential tool for university faculty and others seeking to start similar programmes.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
3 Line drawings, black and white; 29 Halftones, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white
File size
3,55 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-64626-7 (9781040646267)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Book
approx. 04/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
€193.50
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Book
approx. 04/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
€52.50
Not yet published
Person
Annie Buckley is a community-engaged artist, writer, editor, curator and the founder and director of Prison Arts Collective, which has brought arts and arts leadership training to over 9,500 people in 15 state prisons in California since 2013 with a collaborative team of students, faculty, community artists, and incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists. Buckley is a professor at San Diego State University, where she is the founding director of the Institute for the Arts, Humanities, and Social Justice. She is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and has an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design.
Content
1.Foreword. 2.Preface. 3.Acknowledgements. Part One: Humanity. 4.Chapter One: A Beginning. 5.Chapter Two: Grounded in Care. 6.Chapter Three: Creative Connections. 7.Chapter Four: Finding Voice through Imagery. 8.Chapter Five: From the Inside Out. Part Two: Interconnection. 9.Chapter Six: Community-based Curriculum. 10.Chapter Seven: Connection Circles. 11.Chapter Eight: Synchrony. 12.Chapter Nine: Homecoming. 13.Chapter Ten: Dancing the Line. Part Three: Imagination. 14.Chapter Eleven: A Girl Named Justice. 15.Chapter Twelve: Oasis. 16.Chapter Thirteen: Chillin' with God. 17.Chapter Fourteen: Painted Windows. 18.Chapter Fifteen: "Art Pushed the Darkness Away." Part Four: Power. 19.Chapter Sixteen: Dividing Line. 20.Chapter Seventeen: "La Jefa." 21.Chapter Eighteen: Halls of Power. 22.Chapter Nineteen: Weaving the Circle. 23.Chapter Twenty: Ripple.
