INSIDE: INSIGHT
An exhibition of artwork from California State Prisons. 
Presented in collaboration with the William James Association Prison Arts Project.

Exhibition: October 19 - November 24, 2002

Opening Reception: October 20, 2:00 p.m.

Poetry Reading: November 2, 7:00 p.m.
With poets Traci Gourdine, Judith Tannenbaum, and Rob Allbee

Panel Discussion, November 17, 4:00 p.m.  
Moderator: Laurie Brooks Flores, Director, William James Association Prison Art Project

Panelists:
  • Bill Scholer, musician, visual artist, California Arts Council Artist in Residence at California Medical Facility, Vacaville
  • Steve Emrick, fine wood-worker, Institution Artist Facilitator, San Quentin State Prison
  • Emmanuel Montoya, printmaker, sculptor, muralist, Artist / Instructor at Deuel Vocational Institution, Tracy
  • Shuji Ikeda, ceramist, ikebana artist, Artist / Instructor at Deuel Vocational Institution, Tracy
  • E. W. Wainwright, percussionist, Director, African Roots of Jazz, Artist / Instructor at San Quentin State Prison
  • Zoe Mullery, writer, Artist / Instructor at San Quentin State Prison and Northern California Women's Facility

Institution Artist Facilitators:

  • Steve Emrick, San Quentin State Prison (also previously at Deuel Vocational Institution)
  • Jeff Hesemeyer, California Medical Facility
  • Jim Carlson, California State Prison Sacramento
  • Tom Witt, Northern California Women's Facility
  • Bill Petersen, Folsom State Prison
  • Stacy Hay, Sierra Conservation Center, Jamestown

artwork images above are from the following facilities (from left to right):
Sierra Conservation Center, California Medical Facility, Sierra Conservation Center, California Medical Facility, California Medical Facility.

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