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Oscar voters join SkunkWorks behind walls

August 9, 2025 by Edwin Chavez

A few days before the Oscars, the chapel at San Quentin became a screening room for a film that hits close to home. Incarcerated people watched I Am … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ARTS Tagged With: I Am Ready Warden, Texas Death Row

Documentary highlights America’s addiction epidemic

August 2, 2025 by Juan Haines

Which came first — the physical pain crisis or the opioid crisis? A film that corrected a misconception about conflicting causes showed at San Quentin … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ARTS Tagged With: Jeff Reilly, Tipping the Pain Scale

Recognition ceremony highlights racial discrimination

August 1, 2025 by Jerry Maleek Gearin

The acknowledgment of racial discrimination against Asian American and Pacific Islander people came into view during a self-help recognition … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ARTS Tagged With: AAPI, R.O.O.T.S., Restoring Our Original True Selves

Tragic and dark: The Brothers Karamazov

July 31, 2025 by C.K. Gerhartsreiter

Reading translated literature originating from the pens of a variety of translators could mean reading radically different versions that might … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ARTS, BOOK REVIEW Tagged With: Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Resident’s art is his life story

June 4, 2025 by Edwin Chavez

Talented incarcerated artist depicted their art in difference forms individuals in exploring beyond ones reach which is the universe. Richard … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ARTS

Film festival set to return in Fall ’25

May 30, 2025 by Kevin Sawyer

The second San Quentin Film Festival is officially scheduled to return to San Quentin Rehabilitation Center later this year on October 23 and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ARTS

Artistic beauty created with discarded newspaper, rice, small rocks, paint

May 30, 2025 by Edwin Chavez

Through intricate crafts, San Quentin resident Santiago Valencia has been channeling his art into his rehabilitation. “I learned how to create … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ARTS

Fan of Disney constructs replicas of popular fictional characters

April 20, 2025 by Edwin Chavez

3-D style portrays character standing on his own Jack Anderwald, started drawing when he was 10. Now as an adult he decided to take it to a whole … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ARTS

SQ resident maintains family relations through art

April 18, 2025 by Edwin Chavez

For some incarcerated artists, art comes from a blood line.  As a new resident to SQ, Daryl Harmon, have been going through prison culture … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ARTS

Resident’s art makes connections

March 24, 2025 by T. J. Marshall

Meikel Cooper quickly assimilated into the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center’s culture of recovery by bridging the gap through artwork and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ARTS

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