Light Through Prisms

An Open Window
a project partner in the Center For Transformative Action

Mission Statement

An Open Window is a project in which Treacy Ziegler, the director, goes into maximum-security prisons to teach art to incarcerated individuals. The project also donates professional artwork to prisons with the goal of involving non-artists into the process of art. It is the vision of this project for the prison community to have the fullest and most complex experience of art.

Gifts
27A $5 Sends to 3 inmates an art curriculum folder of exercises, art history, and philosophy in an “experiencing art through the mail” project of 200 students nationwide.
27B $15

Color photocopies (for an entire workshop) of great art from a variety of traditions (African, Western, Haitian) that the inmate keeps; art to draw from; to inspire, to decorate their cells.

27C $20

To cover the cost of framing (prison friendly) professional paintings for a gym in a men’s prison for non-artist inmates to view while playing basketball.

27D $20 To cover the costs of framing professional paintings; beautiful boats to facilitate dying inmates in a hospice unit; to die with dignity and farewell for their next journey.
27X $ open To cover the costs of conducting monthly daylong workshops at various prisons.
Treacy Ziegler
treacyziegler@yahoo.com
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