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This was too amazing not to share guys.
As many of you know, I've done a lot of activist work in prison reform and sentence disparity, and have corresponded with dozens of individuals in our nation's prisons. This piece was painted in a prison in California by one of my long-term friends, and since california prisons recently cut the art supply program, he painted this using nothing but olive oil mixed with crushed colored pencil lead.
Mass incarceration of black youth in our country results in many wasted lives and unexplored talents, such as Brett's artistic and historical genius. Scholars call it the New Jim Crow, as black youth are sentenced to much much longer sentences and are almost never referred to psychiatric or drug rehab compared to white and Asian offenders.
Prison reform is an area I care deeply about - getting public money out if the prison industrial complex and back into education, fixing the broken system which encourages repeat offenders and gang activity, reforming race-based sentence disparity and helping inmates express themselves as part of a rehab-oriented system rather than the one now which treats prisons as human garbage cans.
Please go to http://www.ccjrc.org/index.shtml if you're interested in learning more or contact me to learn what you can do, and all +favs are appreciated to help spread the word.
I'm open to dialogue and questions but please no hate speech.
As many of you know, I've done a lot of activist work in prison reform and sentence disparity, and have corresponded with dozens of individuals in our nation's prisons. This piece was painted in a prison in California by one of my long-term friends, and since california prisons recently cut the art supply program, he painted this using nothing but olive oil mixed with crushed colored pencil lead.
Mass incarceration of black youth in our country results in many wasted lives and unexplored talents, such as Brett's artistic and historical genius. Scholars call it the New Jim Crow, as black youth are sentenced to much much longer sentences and are almost never referred to psychiatric or drug rehab compared to white and Asian offenders.
Prison reform is an area I care deeply about - getting public money out if the prison industrial complex and back into education, fixing the broken system which encourages repeat offenders and gang activity, reforming race-based sentence disparity and helping inmates express themselves as part of a rehab-oriented system rather than the one now which treats prisons as human garbage cans.
Please go to http://www.ccjrc.org/index.shtml if you're interested in learning more or contact me to learn what you can do, and all +favs are appreciated to help spread the word.
I'm open to dialogue and questions but please no hate speech.
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thats an amazing technique and its tigers no less, its an ultra-fave, I wish I could purchase art from him, I'd love to help out, considering thats very sad to hear, even if its true, the system is very corrupt and we all know where most of the funding goes for prisons, it goes into the higher ups pockets, they claim its due to funding cuts,which is far from the truth our tax payer money goes to running the prisons, among fixing our roads,etc.
Just flat out amazing. A lot of great talent goes to waste in the system now. Because of the industrial revolution we've been put into a spell of only the "higher learning" courses are being the important ones. A lot of people are then forced out of their place of talent and into something the're not all that natural at. For the most part people get frustrated with this lack of ability to create and they wind up dropping out or getting themselves into trouble. The system is highly flawed and I very much support your cause for helping these people out. Beautiful talent like this shouldn't be wasted, we spend too much time oooing and awing over dead peoples paintings and incarcerating the talents of today. Not to say that the great artists of the past shouldn't be admired but the great artists of the future should be encouraged more so.
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