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Laura Flanders interviews Janie Paul on her show.

Article on Janie Paul has made annual visits to almost all of Michigan's prisons to solicit and select artwork created by prisoners for exhibition in an annual show at the University of Michigan (U-M). Now, she's chronicled that extensive experience in a book, "Making Art in Prison: Survival and Resistance," which was recently named a 2024 Michigan Notable Book by the Library of Michigan.

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In this episode we’ll be heading over to the dazzling Pilsen Community Books, a regular stop on our freedom tour, for a conversation with Janie Paul, about the legendary Prison Creative Arts Project.

Art – Awakening – Abolition

~ by Peter Linebaugh

August 2023.

Sarah speaks with Janie Paul about her book, Making Art in Prison: Survival and Resistance: "The United States is the most incarcerating nation in the world.

Finding Humanity in Art - Making Art in Prison - Survival and Resistance

Dave Campbell of the Living the Next Chapter podcast interviews Janie Paul

August 23, 2023

Artist, curator, and author, Janie Paul, joins Writers’ Voices.

Artist, curator, and author, Janie Paul, joins Writers’ Voices to discuss her riveting new book about integrating art in the Michigan prison systems, Making Art in Prison: Survival and Resistance.

The Caregivers

A long form journalism piece about the relationship between Janie Paul, Buzz Alexander, and the work they built with PCAP.

“An imprisoned artist, the couple who saved his life, and the extraordinary gift he gave in return…”

~ By Kelly Loudenberg

Stateside Podcast: Prison art as survival and resistance

~ by By April Van Buren, Ronia Cabansag.

May 24, 2023

Making Art in Prison: Survival and Resistance

Article about the PCAP project on the LSA News website.

Janie Paul to Publish Book on Prison Creative Arts Project

Book announcement in the U of M Stamps School of Art + Design news.

Dec. 9, 2022