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  2. 'Art inside is healing': 'Between the Lines' aims to ... - AOL

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    Sep. 22—Toilet paper, tissue and cigarette wrappers. Prison inmates use the items most of us toss to create art. Open at the Museum of International Folk Art, "Between the Lines" aims to ...

  3. Rehabilitation Through the Arts - Wikipedia

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    RTA's transitional reentry program, "Reimagining Myself" is an approach to reentry that explores the social and emotional challenges an incarcerated individual is likely to face when released. The program includes narrative and interview films, a 20-session workshop with an arts-based curriculum, participant workbook, facilitator guide and ...

  4. Art show reflects humanity and uplifts incarcerated voices in ...

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    The art show, featuring work from Orange Correctional Center inmates, is the work of advocates who say such programs help incarcerated people stay out of prison upon release.

  5. Joyce Laing (art therapist) - Wikipedia

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    Joyce Laing OBE, art therapist (1939 - 2022) was a 'pioneer of art therapy'. [1] [2] [3]Laing saw a means of releasing creativity [4] in long term psychiatric in-patients such as Angus McPhee (who did not speak for fifty years but created woven grass art), [5] [6] [7] and worked with long-term (including violent) prisoners in the Barlinnie Special Unit, Glasgow, Scotland, such as Jimmy Boyle ...

  6. Westville Correctional Facility - Wikipedia

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    The hospital also helped students from the surrounding community benefit from internships in psychology, music, occupational, vocational and recreational therapy and nursing programs. [3] In 1977, legislation was passed that transformed the Norman Beatty Mental Hospital from a mental facility into a prison, the Westville Correctional Facility.

  7. Art therapy helps eliminate stigma, create 'threads of ... - AOL

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    Art, a visual form of human creativity, is much more than a simple painting, canvas or sculpture ― it's a form of expression. Often used in therapeutic settings, art therapy helps patients to ...

  8. Art therapy - Wikipedia

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    Art therapy may help people with anorexia with associated depression and weight management. [63] Traumatic or negative childhood experiences can result in unintentionally harmful coping mechanisms, such as eating disorders. Art therapy may provide an outlet for exploring these experiences and emotions. [64]

  9. He was wrongfully incarcerated in 2013. Today, his art hangs ...

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    Roland views the puzzles as an abstract type of portrait, emphasizing how prison dehumanizes people. He chose to keep all of the exonerees anonymous except for Hunt, whose case is well known, in ...