upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
ABOLITION NOW! Closing Reception
Turn up to bail out! Asian Arts Initiative is partnering with the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund to close out ABOLITION NOW Friday, August 23rd. [learn more]
Project ABOLITION NOW! Youth Art & Self-empowerment Workshop
Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project – ABOLITION NOW! Workshop Thursday, August 1, 6:30-8pm Join us and Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project for a workshop that examines and challenges perceptions of safety, policing, and prisons [learn more]
Reentry Think Tank heads to Slought for an evening of art, activism, and conversation!
Reentry Think Tank heads to Slought Foundation on March 29, 2017 for an evening of art, activism, and conversation! Share a meal with the Think Tank as we engage the city's reentry crisis through the eyes of those most affected. Hear how they are partnering with lawyers, advocates, and many others to transform Philadelphia's Reentry Services, and experience their dynamic art exhibit first hand. [learn more]
Phoebus Criminal Justice Initiative Grant Deadline is December 1
Bread & Roses Community Fund is calling all organizers working to make real change in the criminal justice system! Apply for a grant from the Phoebus Criminal Justice Initiative. The deadline to submit your application is Thursday, December 1, 11:59 p.m. [learn more]
Mary Dewitt's Paintings at the African American Museum of Philadelphia
Mary Dewitt's paintings of Avis Lee and Kennetta Andrews will be on exhibit at the African American Museum in Philadelphia through September 11. [learn more]
Justice Denied: A Display of Inmate Artwork
Art for Justice presents, Justice Denied, an exhibit about systemic injustice in the Criminal Justice System with a focus on the death penalty and false confessions at Temple University Beasley School of Law - Klein Hall (1719 N. Broad Street) [learn more]
Baz Dreisinger: Reading, Q&A and Book Signing
Join Baz Dreisinger, a teacher in the English department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, for a reading, audience Q&A and book signing February 26 at 1:30pm centered on her new book Incarceration Nations: A journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World [learn more]
Call for 2017 Site-Specific Artist Installations at Eastern State Penitentiary
The deadline for proposals is June 15. [learn more]
A Symposium on Mass Incarceration
As a follow up to the 2007 and 2012 Arts and Criminal Justice symposiums, and as the capstone to an ongoing art and community conversation project, the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program’s Restorative Justice Department is planning a new symposium for Spring 2014. Moving Beyond the Wall: A Symposium on Mass Incarceration will take place on April 15 at the Fox Rothschild Center for Law and Society Community College of Philadelphia. [learn more]
