Art professor Doug Hanson has fifteen years of experience using art therapy to work with incarcerated individuals. In the spring of 1998 in a course on drawing and ceramics, Professor Hanson and seventeen students worked with selected prisoners from the Anamosa State Prison on an art project which connected both communities. Students and prisoners designed and fired ceramic tiles which would later be used to create two large-scale murals at the prison and at the college. Emphasizing the cooperative theme of the project, half of the students work was used in the mural at the prison, and half of the prisoners work was used in the mural at the college.
From Service Matters 1998: Engaging Higher Education In the Renewal of America s Communities and American Democracy
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