Changemakers' Guide to Prison Arts Programming explores practical tips and stories from the field about developing arts programs for incarcerated individuals.

This book is based on more than ten years of experience, during which Annie Buckley developed two in-depth programs with prisons in California, with a focus on one, Prison Arts Collective, which has brought arts programming to over 10,000 people since 2013. The book offers step-by-step guidance on developing comprehensive, meaningful, and student-centered arts programming behind bars, to build programs in and with carceral institutions specifically. It also explores themes of hope and transformation, interconnection and mutuality, and grief and loss.
Changemakers' Guide to Prison Arts Programming is an essential tool for university faculty and others seeking to start similar programmes.

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Annie Buckley is a community-engaged artist, writer, editor, professor and the founder and director of Prison Arts Collective, which has brought arts and arts leadership training to over 10,000 people in 15 state prisons in California since 2013 with a collaborative team of students, faculty, community artists, and incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists. Buckley is a professor at San Diego State University, where she is the founding director of the Institute for the Arts, Humanities, and Social Justice. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley and has an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design.