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Creation Date
11-4-2024
Description
This display features art from workshops conducted at Unit 30 and Unit 29 at Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman Farm) from November 2021 until June 2024, as a continuation of Oxford based Prison Writes Initiative, which is an educational outreach program of the literary non-profit group, VOX PRESS.
Implemented in 2014, the Prison Writes Initiative was the first of its kind to offer humanities-based classes to Mississippi inmates in which inmate writing from the program was published in a series of books, including, In our own Words (2014), Unit 30 (2016), Mississippi Prison Writing (2021), and the forthcoming Unit 29 (December 2024). The series is scheduled to continue in 2025 with Mississippi Prison Poetry and Mississippi Prison Writing Anthology.
In the fall of 2021, the P.W.I. began to offer art workshops at Parchman under the instruction of Sally Lott McLellan in Unit 30. The classes, held once a week, ranged from drawing and watercolor to mask-making and sewing projects.
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