The Confined Arts - AJSC

The Confined Arts is a platform to illustrate and showcase the talents and creative voices of currently and formerly incarcerated artists. This platform provides an outlet for artists to express their voices through the visual and performing arts, poetry, and music as a means to abolish the inhumane narratives and socially degrading stigmas that are used to describe the past experiences and limit the futures of individuals impacted by incarceration. The TCA platform is also open to those artists who work in or around jails and prisons, as well as those who have been impacted by mass incarceration through a friend or family member.

Isaac’s Quarterly is now positioning The Confined Arts to expand its platform to include artist who advocate for other populations experiencing different types of human rights abuses and social injustices.