Ilka and Domonique Perkins, the Co-founders and Directors of People’s Pottery Project, and Regina Merceron, an artist and student of People’s Pottery Project, discuss their journey with art, ceramics, incarceration, and their mission to empower formerly incarcerated women, trans and non-binary people through their non-profit ceramic business, the People’s Pottery Project.

Amir Whitaker is the Senior Policy Counsel for the ACLU, the founder of Project Knucklehead, and a creative. He discusses his journey from his encounters with the criminal justice system to founding his nonprofit and becoming a teaching artist. You can find more of Amir's work at https://www.projectknucklehead.org.

Alberto Lule, “Berto” to his friends and colleagues, is a visual artist and MFA student at UC Irvine. He discusses his journey to becoming an artist and what motivates him to keep creating.

Michele Scott is a writer and artist who was a student in PAC’s first teaching cohort. She was recently released from prison and is the author of “I’m Trapped in a Women’s Prison During a Pandemic,” recently published in Elle. She discusses her life and art on the inside and outside, and how her creativity sustains her.

John Rodriguez is a formerly incarcerated writer who now works coordinating arts in corrections programming for PAC. John discusses his creative journey, including those who have influenced him as a writer and artist, and what his life is like now, post pandemic.

Vin is an artist based in Australia who facilitates art programs for Indigenous students at Ravenhall and Port Phillip Prisons in Melbourne. Vin discusses his work as an artist and as a teacher and the reasons for his current visit to the United States to work with the Prison Arts Collective.

Founder/Director of TheatreWorkers Project, Susie Tanner and Actor, Writer, Director, and one of the Lead Teaching Artists at the TheatreWorkers Project, James MacDonald, talk about their work with the TheatreWorkers Project and reflect on moving experiences from working with their participants.

Photographer and Prison Arts Collective Board Member, Peter Merts, talks about his journey with how he got started with photography from an early age to how his photography transformed into capturing intimate moments inside institutions for arts and corrections.

Actor, writer, Patrick Keating, shares his story about his journey from Québec, Canada to Vancouver, Canada. He was transformed through theater, writing, and his solo performance called “Inside/Out: A Prison Memoir."

Artist, writer, PAC alumni, Dominique Tanks, talks about how his experience with creative writing and visual art has helped cultivate a relationship with the people inside.