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theColumbiaCollective.com

The Columbia Collective is a coalition of emerging female and trans artists who are currently or formerly incarcerated. Rooted in the maximum-security juvenile facility where it began, the collective creates across carceral boundaries—crafting a shared vision beyond confinement. Through practices of healing and radical imagination, the collective works to reimagine and transform the prison system.

Night-Moth.com

Night Moth started as a sketchbook exchange with D.W., a resident at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls—a maximum detention center in the Hudson Valley. Together we have been building a multi-media project called Night Moth about D.W's humanoid avatar character Luna, a teenage green moth goddess imprisoned on the moon and her fairy-godfather Seven, a seven legged octopus. We are currently developing the project into a mixed-reality documentary with the help of a production team soon to be announced.

ArtsinCorrectionsNYS-ShawangunkCorrectionalFacility.com

Arts in Corrections NYS brought me together with a group of incarcerated artists at Shawangunk Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in New York’s Hudson Valley. Meeting weekly, we worked across drawing, sculpture, and other forms of art-making, sharing ideas, materials, and skills while developing individual and collaborative projects. Our work grew through conversation, experimentation, and a shared commitment to making art together across the boundaries of incarceration. The program was supported by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and facilitated by Wave Farm.

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Maggie Hazen