Administered by the California Arts Council in partnership with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, California's Arts in Corrections program is internationally recognized for its high-impact, innovative approach to addressing the state's critical public safety needs and rehabilitative priorities through the arts.

Arts In Corrections (AIC) is a program that allows incarcerated individuals to create self-awareness through visual, literary, media, performing, and folk and traditional art opportunities.

2015年12月16日 · This gallery documents a variety of art classes in California state prisons. Most of them are part of Arts in Corrections, which is funded by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and administered by the California Arts Council.

2019年1月17日 · The exhibit, “Beyond the Blue,” features 15 diverse artworks evoking the prison experience, personal expression and transformation. The artworks were created by students participating in rehabilitative Prison Arts Collective (PAC) classes taught inside state prisons.

2023年6月20日 · Employees and guests at CDCR Headquarters are now greeted with beautiful, brightly colored art celebrating the natural and architectural beauty found throughout California. Through a partnership with the Prison Arts Collective (PAC), artists incarcerated at California Institution for Men (CIM) and California Institution for Women (CIW) worked ...

Arts in Corrections is a partnership between the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and the California Arts Council designed to have a positive impact on the social and emotional well-being of people experiencing incarceration, promoting healing and interpersonal transformation both inside and outside of the ...

2017年4月2日 · The mural class for high-level offenders is part of a new initiative by the State of California to bring the arts — including Native American beadwork, improvisational theater, graphic novels...

Arts in Corrections programs are designed to have a positive impact on the social and emotional well-being of people experiencing incarceration, promoting healing and interpersonal transformation both inside and outside of the boundaries of their institutions.

SACRAMENTO, CA – The California Arts Council has awarded new contracts to 12 arts organizations providing rehabilitative services to California inmates through its Arts in Corrections program. Arts programming now reaches all 35 state adult correctional institutions – a significant increase from the 20 institutions served by the program in ...

In October 2019, French artist JR created a one-of-a-kind art activation within the walls of California Correctional Institution: Tehachapi in Southern California - a maximum security 4 facility.