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Some of the works of the Annual Inmate Fine Arts Festival in
Huntsville were on display in the Memorial Student Center
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Saturday. Inmates exhibited their collections of oils, charcoals
and acrylics.
By PAUL BARTON
Most prison systems aren’t
thought of as training grounds in the
fine arts, but the Texas Department
of Corrections (TDC), could change
that idea before long.
A sampling of its fine arts program
went on display in the Memorial
Student Center Gallery Saturday in
the form of 25 paintings and draw
ings. The collection consists of oils,
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work was done by inmates in the
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The exhibit itself is a project of
the Crafts and Arts Committee of
Texas A&M and will run through
Ridni Feb, 4. Chip DeMois, committee
toph chairman, says this is the first ex
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distn hopes it will become an annual
event.
‘We were looking for something
that had both quality and unique
ness,” says DeMois of the exhibit. “I
think people will be surprised at the
quality of the work. ”
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Huntsville’s TDC inmates
show off’ artwork in MSC
Although the paintings were pro
duced inside the confines of difter-
ent prison units, their variety shows
no bounds. Included in the display
are nature scenes, faceless portraits,
animal pictures and a 3-hy-4 foot
painting of country and western
stars Waylon Jennings and Jessie
Coulter.
Works on display at the MSC this
month will be part of the Annual
Inmate Fine Arts Festival in
Huntsville May 6. Paintings and
“We were looking for some
thing that had both quality
and uniqueness.”
drawings, however, will make up
just one part of the festival. There
will also be sculpture and wood
cuts, leathercrafts, and handicrafts,
and a modem dance team from the
Goree Women’s Unit, also in
Huntsville. Music will include rock,
country-western and Mexican style.
According to Jim Humphries, art
instructor for the Windham School
District in Huntsville this is “proba
bly the top inmate art program in
the nation. No other institution has
as an extensive or ongoing program
“To some it’s a form of ex
pression and to some it’s par-
tialy for financial reasons.”
as this one.” The Windham School
District serves all units in the TDC.
The most popular fine arts pro
grams among inmates is painting
and drawing, says Humphries.
“It’s a hobby to a lot of them,”
says Dr. Robert Pierce, learning
coordinator of Windham, “To some
it’s a form of expression and to some
it’ partly for financial reasons —just
like it is on the outside.”
Inmates paint both in art classes
and in their spare time. Most spend
an average of six hours a week on
the activity, but they can spend as
much as 30 hours a week on paint
ing.
Humphries says inmates paint
some scenes that deal with prison
life, but most of the their work has
to do with “things involved with the
concept of being free.’ Popular sub
jects include wildlife, hunting and
fishing, family photographs and re
ligion. “There is quite a hit of reli
gious work,’’ he says, “both Catholic
and Protestant themes.
Paintings like the ones on display
at the MSC cost between $10 and
$300, and Humphries says some
inmates make as much as $1,000 a
year off their work.
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