In this episode of Eat, Drink, and Do Good, pastry chef Rose McAdoo writes on the importance of creating space for art inside carceral systems.

Read Rose's piece at www.studioatao.org/newsletter. Some additional resources on this topic recommended by the author are:

Readings

• Formerly Incarcerated Artists Visualize Healing by Jasmine Weber

• Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole R. Fleetwood

• Chasing Me To My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert

Watch & Listen

• 13th by Ava DuVernay

• Life on the Outside — a podcast that shares stories about returning to society after decades of incarceration

Resources & Organizations to Support

• Brush up on current statistics on the Equal Justice Initiative website

• Financially support carceral artists through the Art for Justice Fund

• Connect with an incarcerated pen pal through the pARTner project at Justice Arts Coalition

• Consider presenting your art with the Prison Arts Collective

• Purchase your next set of gifts from formerly incarcerated artists at Forgive Everyone Co.