Artist in Prison Gallery: Defy the Design

Welcome! 65 artists submitted over 125 pieces of art for Let’s Get Free’s 8th art show!

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  • Detail of: Large art piece with a painted background that blends neon colors from blue, purple, pink, orange, and yellow. The center of the image is a large mosaic style collage made of photographs of a feminine person, ranging in age from baby to adulthood. The photographs are cut and arranged in a starburst from the center, and together compose the image of lady liberty holding the scales of justice. Surrounding the collage are large words painted in transparent white including "Justice," "Judge," "Moral," "Just," "Reasonable," and "Righteous." Each of these words is overlayed with a definition of the word in black painted script. Below the feel of the lady libery collage, a plinth is painted in black with the words "Justice for Kathryn.”
    Justice for Kathryn by Kevin Dowling (Detail Image)
  • Top left corner: Cross in front of leaves, behind a large hibiscus flower. Center: Praying hands with a chain and cross around the wrist. Bottom right: Large pillar
    Untitled (Praying Hands) (and ‘Mothered’ poem) by Tuesday Hale
  • The Head of an animal, half tiger, half wolf, wearing a three pointed crown. Background is a riot of colors with II HEADED MONSTER and II GATHER printed along side the head.
    II Headed Monster by Daryl Geary
  • A dead smiling face has it's tongue sticking out. The eyes are X's. The face is surrounded by neon rainbow lines.
    Smile though I’m dead inside. by Shawn Freemore
  • Pencil drawing of head and shoulders of a beautiful woman surrounded by a broken heart outlined in red with the words "She Loves Me, Not" in black. Upper background is a ble cloudy sky and picket fence. Lower backgound is the view of a man's prison cell from the inmates perspective.
    She Loves Me Not by Anthony Alvarez
  • A pencil drawing of a youth's face with chin lenth hair wearing a knitted beanie and a pink hoodie. Background is a night sky with a full moon and red stars and a drifting oak leaf.
    Moon Girl by Anthony Alvarez
  • Abstract drawing of circles and curved line and shapes, with big blocks of bright colors, including purple, red, lime green, kelly green, dark green, orange, and blue.
    Untitled (Abstract 2) by Brian Fuller
  • A range of pyramid shaped granite peaks border a calm lake. The sun and a full moon are visible in the sky. "How do we differ if we are created by the same light & restin the same night" is written in curlicue script.
    Perception by Natasha Stover
  • A large image of a buffalo's face facing the viewer, painted in browns, greys and blues. There is a background of washed dark green and blue behind the buffalo.
    Buffalo Soldier by Ms. GeGe Morales
  • Two pieces of printer paper, one with a castle and a horse in color on the left side and a wall with barbed wire and prisoners with ball and chain behind it, lighting and rain above, in pencil. The other sheet of paper is a colorful abstract design with many layers.
    Abstract Distortion: Freedom is thru the walls, the distance between by Shawna LaCoste Lucy Goubert
  • A hand-made gown made of painted fabric in red orange. The top of the gown is sleeveless with a scalloped cut, and is painted with a pattern of scales. The skirt of the dress is made of orange overlapping feather shapes, made from painted fabric. It has a corset back and a tag sewn in that says K-Love Designs. It's size 14-16. There is a matching shawl in the same hues of reds and oranges that is patterned and cut like a pair of wings.
    Gown & Shawl by Kamdyn Alexis Love
  • Graphite pencil drawing on brown kraft paper. An extremely muscular masculine figure in a body builder pose, kneels while flexing one biceps. With the other arm, the figure holds up the letters "DOC" which appear to be carved from stone. Many words are etched onto the DOC letters, including: Weak, Suffocated, Silenced, Worthless, Forgotten, Suicidal, Hated, Fear, Sad, Panic, Ugly, Hopeless, Darkness, Unworthy, Violated, Guilt, Isolated, Misery, Empty, Shame, Defeated, Dirty, Rejected, Lost, Heavy, Depression, Stress, Time, Mule, Buried, Nothing, Overwhelmed, Dispensible, Stupid, Exhausted, Frustrated, Hurt, Sick, Crazy, Ignored, Overlooked, Anxiety, and Terrified.
    The Weight Can’t Crush Our Strength! by Shawna Lacoste
  • Bearded man of a fairer complexion with three crosses to the left of his shoulder
    His Life by Edward Gause
  • A smiling face has it's mouth covered by a black panel that has the "no smiling" sign on it. There is still a twinkle in it's eye.
    Can’t Censor My Smile by Shawn Freemore
  • Cross stitch on a detailed blue butterfly with yellow, red, and black details. The butterfly is alight on a soft red flower, next two three yellow flowers, flower buds ,and dark green foliage.
    Morph by Cyd Berger
  • Acrylic painting with black background, centered on a butterfly with a large eye. The body is painted in raised and textured red paint. The wings are painted in blended black to white patters, with the veins or edges of the wings painted in bright rainbow colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple) that are raised and textured like the body. Above and below the butterfly words painted backwards are in the same colors and raised texture, reading "Defy the Design." Several other letters, also in bright colors and raised texture, and floating around the image, including "LBGTQ2AI+"
    Defy the Design (butterfly) by Steven Musser and Kamdyn Alexis Love
  • Acrylic painting with black background. A red phoenix with flaming wings outstetched has words painting in orange and yellow on its torso: "I am a victim / Don't say my name / Losing my power / And taking the blame / Was it my fault / That they did what they did / They were adults / And I was a kid / The system that failed me / And let me fall through the cracks / Said the crimes were mine / The guilt on my back / Gaslit for years / With no one to help / Drowning in trauma / And losing myself / Now I'm a survivor / And you'll know my name / I'm taking back my power / Reborn from the pain." Below the phoenix, spurts of red flames are spurting up atop a mound of ashes with subtle names written in it. All across the black background, a long list of names is written upside down in silver paint.
    Survivor’s Creed by Steven Musser and Kamdyn Alexis Love
  • A man is meditating on a raft that is adrift in shark infested water. A full moon is visible in the sky on which a U.S. flag is planted. Lightening and raindrops are in the sky. Googly eyes are watching the man and laughing at him.
    Weather the Storm by Anthony Alvarez
  • Small detailed acryclic painting on a leaf of a coiled and striking rattlesnake.
    Rattlesnake by Todd “Hyung Rae” Tarselli
  • Abstract drawing of purple circles surrounded by lines in green, outlined in black, reminiscent of plant cells. In the background there are many parallel vertical lines in various shades of grey.
    Untitled (Abstract 3) by Brian Fuller
  • Several vignettes are shown on a lavender page. In the foreground, a light skinned hand is holding a whip in action, behind a dark skinned, kneeling person whose back is covered in bloodied wounds. The kneeling figure is supporting another dark skinned person, who stands triumphantly with broken handcuffs, and "sacrifice" written across their chest, in front of a grey mountain. In the background, a giant dark skinned fist has broken through a pane of glass.
    Sacrifice & Triumph by Steven Williams
  • Very detailed acrylic painting of a scene of health care workers standing together outside a hospital. At the top of the painting words read "Freedom House Enterprise Inc. First Day, June 16, 1968" and "Defy the Design." The 11 health care workers are a mix of skin colors, predominantly Black, with one feminine person among them. Most wear suit paints, short sleeved button down white shirts, and ties. One wears scrubs and a doctor's white coat. One wears a white nurse's dress. Behind them are two long white cars with red lights on top. Below the people, these words are painted in white with black shadow: "Before Freedom House, emergency medical response in Pittsburgh was often inadequate, especially in the Hill District and low-income communities. Police and morticians were relied upon, providing minimal medical assistance. Founded in 1967, FHE was the first emergency medical service in the United States to provide professionally trained pre-hospital emergency care. Staffed primarily by Black paramedics, PHE addressed the disparities and barriers to accessing timely medical care in Pittsburgh and became the new design model nationwide."
    Freedom House by Darrell Van Mastrigt
  • FREE CUBA is written on a brick wall . FREE is colored by the flag of the Ubited States. CUBA is colored by the flag of Cuba
    Free Cuba by Anthony Alvarez
  • Acrylic painting with a background fading from blue to green, with a scalloped black border. Minnie Mouse is standing in an iconic pose, with one leg bent and winking, wearing a red robe that is tattered at the edges. Minnie has a think black "devil" tail and small red horns, a large orange bow between them. Minnie is holding a red orange trident in one hand, pinkie out. A firey strand curls up the trident, ending in a starburst above it. The word "LUV" is above Minnie in bold capitals, and "PASSION" is below Minnie.
    Minnie Mouse by Roman Ellis
  • Mock "Let's Get Free's Magazine Daughters" cover. Purple girl hugging a brown teddy bear. "Dreams" below the image.
    Dreams by Robert Chin
  • Large highly detailed colored pencil and pen drawing of many colorful birds sitting on branches, including parrots, bluejay, oriole, woodpeker, and more. A squirrel also sits on a branch. In the bottom right corner, a feminine person is visible in profile, with close cropped hair and yellow wings coming of their back. A garden of flowers and butterflies is in the background.
    Untitled (Aviary) by Andrew M. Moore
  • A collage of different drawings; a human and robot reaching to touch or kiss. 1776 filled in with the US flag and the 6 is a crying eye, the globe with a red flag including a question mark and heart. throughout there are puzzle like blocks shaded purple and green.
    Perspective of Today by Anthony Alvarez
  • Portrait of a bald Black man drinking a beverage and sitting with 3 dogs
    Puppy Love by Edward Gause
  • Silhouettes of various riches are displayed on a green background. "Covet "is written in white cursive. A line of white stick-like figures are displayed at the bottom depicting robbery and police action
    The Allegory 2 – The Chase by Elena House-Hay
  • Portrait of a man of a fairer complexion with black hair on top of scantron bubble sheet in chalk pastels
    Self Portrait on Commissary Bubble Sheet by Joseph Aulisio
  • Acrylic painting of a butterfly on a grey background. Butterfly is stylized, facing to the side. A flame pattern in blended red, orange, and yellow is on the large wings and body.
    Fire Butterfly by Steven Musser
  • A light blue background with a silohette in the center behind a yellow glow. Above this figure is the words "Defy the Design", below is the words of Psalm 23. On the side are the years 1987-2026 listed.
    There’s Light at the End of the Tunnel by Denise Crump
  • A collection of 4 crosses, ranging in size from 7"x5" to 2"x3". Crosses constructed from woven paper. One cross is woven from paper with wood grain drawn on it and metallic silver paper with angled weaving. Two crosses of various sizes are woven with verticle and horizontal weaving and stained with coffee. The fourth cross is woven with verticle weaving and stained with coffee, and is set on a woven background painted with grey, dark blue water, and light blue sky with white clouds.
    Woven Cross (1) by Daniel Wilkes
  • Abstract shapes in bright red orange with dark purple blue background
    Free Love by Ms. GeGe Morales
  • Mock Monopoly board painting on the back of a checkerboard. In the center of the board, there is a large figure in the style of the "Monopoly man" wearing dark red prison clothes, with broken chains on its hands and feet, and carrying a bag of money. Grey bards extend across the center of the board, behind this figure, with the letters "INJUSTICE" between the bars. Similar to the boardgame Monopoly, all the edges of the board are made up of squares with different "costs" of being imprisoned, starting with "County Jail," and including other squares such as "Attorney Fines $$$," "Court Fines $$$," "Commissary $$$," "Bail," "Go to RHU 30 days," and "Life w/o Parole, Lose 30-4E turns."
    Game of Life by Shannon Matthews
  • A 5 panel collage on black, each panel includes a stanza of the poem and imagry. The 1st panel is addressed to Voracious Kudzu with Kudzu imagery, 2nd panel is addressed to Soaring Phonons with red and yellow waving ribbons, 3rd is addressed to Sacred Mycelia with fungus images, 4th is addressed to Omnipotent Ocean with water imagery, and 5th is addressed to Incandescent Lava with images of erupting volcanos.
    A Prayer for the Abolition of Prisons and Policing III by Endjah Sunlei
  • Watercolor background of a blue stream with grey rocks along one side, surrounded by green grass dotted with pink and white flowers. On top of the painting these words are handwritten in black pen: "Rivers know we will all get to where we are going someday. The ebb and flow are like the ups and downs of life. Nothing is ever consistent, i just go with the flow. Daily life has its challenges where you never know what each day holds until it unfolds. Sometimes I look at each day as a new lesson to learn something new about myself, or maybe someone else. I'm like the flowers that grow by the river. I don't always see myself as pretty but I know I have a warm heart and care, a little too much at times. Not controlling my emotions got me here. I lacked the tools to identify this at the time. This is no longer my story. I believe this experience saved my life. I have been able to fully understand myself and know what I want by finding my identity. I can say I am no longer lost. I have followed the River so I have no doubt that I will get to where I have worked hard to get to."
    Rivers by Jessica Strohl
  • Sketch drawing of a face looking at the viewer. Behind the face the paper is lined, like notebook paper, and writing covers each line. The writing reads: "Dear Self, I am writing this to you, to ask, how do you see youself? How do you see me? Dear Mental Health, Can we talk about you and I--- Dear suicide, Why me. Why can't no one see me? Dear Schizophrenia, Is it me or is it you? Enemy, friend, real or not real. Dear Anxiety, Why can't I breathe. Dear God, Give me strength now. Dear voices, Shut the fuck up, get out of my head. Dear Family, Is this just me or is it heredity? Dear Criminal, Were you born this way? How did you turn out like this? Dear OCD, It is out of order, everything is out of order. It needs--- Dear Mind, Would you mind if we work--- Dear Mom ,I'm sorry for all the hurt, pain, and let downs. Dear Therapy, I need some help now, I can't take it anymore. Dear Drugs, I wanna feel good, I wanna--- Dear Reflection, Do you see me as I see you? Dear Allah, I seek refuge in you from the stress, depression, anxiet--- Dear Friend, I do not know how to help, but I will liste--- Dear Quiet, Your silence is deafening. Dear Soul, Look outside of yourself. Dear Rage, Dear Younger me, Dear Violence, Dear---"
    Dear Self by Sundiata Chaka Pollard
  • Black, red and gray sneaker design surrounded by a chaos of words
    Untitled Design by Daryl Geary
  • Collage of many small scenes: Black man kneeling with large scars on back and broken chains around neck, wrists, and ankles; Anarchist A over 1492; people with feathers in hair pushing and pulling statue of Christoper Columbus with ropes; Three fists behind "Reparations Now;" among others
    Rise Up! by Running River Banks
  • Angular colored blocks with different symbols inside, people, eye balls, clouds, dollar signs and boxes.
    Commutation or Abstract by Muwsa Green
  • Colored pencil drawing with outlines in black pen of two heart shapes. One heart shape has a key hole and wings, the other has prison bars that are broken on one corner. Below these is a set of ornate keys of varying colors with the words "There's" "His" "Her's" "Her's" next to them. Handwritten script reads "The glow from within" and "Love breaks through the bars."
    Love Breaks the Bars by Timber Trewitz
  • Defy the Design by Anthony Gray
    Defy the Design by Anthony Gray
  • Dripping watercolor background in reds and some purples. Page is separated into a top panel, and two columns, each outlined in black. Hand written words in black are written in each panel. At the top it reads "Thank You For Letting Me Know You Better." The remaining text reads "I got the real you. / The parts that ou let no one else see. / When others walk away and that fake smile fades. That's the person I know best. / Thank you because I got to see truth and in seeing truth I gained strength. / I got to define myself by eerything that you are not. / Thank you for showing me anger and hate, becasue I learned love and compassion. / Thank you for showing me prejudice, because I learned to see everyone as equal. / I learned how to be vulnerable and brave. / I learned how to take a punch and get back up. / I learned how to not allow fear to control me. / So yes, Thank you for letting me know you better, because to know you, means to know me."
    Thank You For Letting Me Know You Better by Chontelle Shirk
  • A braclet woven with black, purple, blue, yellow. The front has the word "Believe" woven in.
    Believe by Jesse Gardner Jr.
  • A calm stream flowing over a small dam reflects the blue sky and white clouds above, next to two narrow tall trees and a flowering bush. Apple trees with red apples line the stream on one side, and in the background a wood cabin with glowing yellow windows is surrounded by a fence and a field. Green trees line the horizon.
    Untitled (Cabin & Creek) by Virgil Tuttle
  • A collage of 9 rectangular images of a us flag with words from the Declaration of Independance, a brick pathway leading through a garden gate, the coliseum, a guitar, a chipped vase with peaches, a five-petal fuchsia flower, three crosses under a starry sky, a turquoise urn at the base of a waterfall in a western landscape, the ruins of an underwater city with various sealife, and the planets of our solar system.
    Travel Through Art by Marilyn Dobrolenski
  • City skyscraper skyline with Trans flag sky as the backdrop
    Pittsburgh Pride by Jocelyn Charlotte Kuzmen
  • Acrylic painting with bright purple background. Around the edges of the page, the words "Creating Success Inside & Out" are painted in stylized font in yellow and orange, with black shadows. The word "Inside" has barbed wire painted in black going through the letters. In the center of the image, a phoenix with wings outspread is rising out of flames. There are shackles on its legs, the links of the chains breaking. Below the phoenix, behind the letters, is a prison fence with razor wire in black. Around the phoenix in a circle, a number of images of people in action are painted in black. These include a person holding their head in their hands, a volleyball, a person running and dribbling a basketball, a person swinging a baseball bat, a person sprinting with a football and flag football tags on their waist, a person hitting a volleybal, a soccer ball, and a person running.
    Creating Success (Inside) by Darrell Van Mastrigt
  • A blue vase holds four colorful flowers with green stems. The petals are made with brushy strokes of yellow, orange, blue, pink, green, and gold. There is a translucent green wash over the background.
    Beautiful Surprise by Amanda Vernitsky
  • Crisp, stylized drawing reminiscent of traditional tattoo artwork, outlined and shaded in black. A branching green stem with one red rose and one pink rose is behind a banner with the word "Hope" on it. A blue and black butterfly hovers above the flowers.
    Hope by Curtis Foose
  • A scene in a shower with yellow walls. A feminine figure with dark hair sits naked in the shower, cutting themself with a knife on the arm. There are bleeding cuts on their arm and legs, with blood being washed down onto the shower floor. Several scars or healing cuts are visible on their body in other places.
    Thank You For Letting Me Know You Better (9) by Chontelle Shirk
  • A collection of 4 crosses, ranging in size from 7"x5" to 2"x3". Crosses constructed from woven paper. One cross is woven from paper with wood grain drawn on it and metallic silver paper with angled weaving. Two crosses of various sizes are woven with verticle and horizontal weaving and stained with coffee. The fourth cross is woven with verticle weaving and stained with coffee, and is set on a woven background painted with grey, dark blue water, and light blue sky with white clouds.
    Woven Cross (2) by Daniel Wilkes
  • Three animated women dressed in the same uniform wearing different headwear. One offers a wink and a heart represents love, one represents peace, and the third represents knowledge.
    Individuality by Kelly Zawodniak
  • Abstract drawing of a single line making curves and overlapping circles with blue pen. Single wavelength inside some of the overlapping areas.
    True Fourth by Vaughn Wright
  • Acrylic painting with bright purple background. Around the edges of the page, the words "Creating Succe$$ Inside & Out" are painted in stylized font in yellow and orange, with black shadows. The word "Inside" has barbed wire painted in black going through the letters. In the center of the image, a phoenix with wings outspread is rising out of flames. There are shackles on its legs, the links of the chains breaking. Each of the guard feathers on the wings has a word painted in black on it, including: HVAC, Organizations, Electronics, Fiber Optics, Responsibility, Plumbing, Landscaping, Carpentry, Running, College, Murals, GED, Welding, CDL, Flagger, Maintenance, Restaurant Trades, Electricity, Exercise, Cosmetology, Writing, Remorse, Masonry, Charity, Barber, OSHA, Print, Sports. Below the phoenix, behind the letters, is a prison fence with razor wire in black. Around the phoenix in a circle, a number of images of people in action are silhouetted in black. These include a person with their head in their hands, a hammer, a family with two adults and two children, a person standing wearing a lot of gear, two people dressing in evening wear, a scroll tied up with string, and a person running.
    Creating Success (Out) by Darrell Van Mastrigt
  • Painting of grey prison bars with black background, and a pair of hands clenching the bars. White words written in script read "just doin time so it don't do me....."
    Time by Dominic Barber
  • Grey one-story house with a red roof, chimney, and an abundance of windows. Off-white checkered driveway. Trees, grass, mountains, and blue sky with clouds in the background.
    House In Perspective by Ms. GeGe Morales
  • Acrylic painting of comic book character Harley Quinn, who is in the center of the image with a lightly amused expression, with blond hair partially dyed red and blue, wearing headphones. She is touching the headphones with her hands, and wearing a utility bikini, long fingerless gloves, and a choker necolace. The background is made up of stars, hearts, and diamonds in red, black, and blue.
    Harley Quinn by Roman Ellis
  • A white horse is galloping towards a wired fence in a dark green grassy meadow. Behind the horse is a row of trees of various heights and a small blue lake. Rolling hills and a cloudy blue/yellow sky are in the background.
    Untitled (Horse in Meadow) by Virgil Tuttle
  • Small painted scene of a purple house with a black roof and bicycle on the side. A brown dog is howling in the foreground, standing on a path that leads to the house. Behind the house are mountains and a cloud studded blue sky with birds flying.
    Koonhound House by Ms. GeGe Morales
  • Colored pencil drawing, with a faded yellow to red background. At the bottom of the image, a dark skinned figure with black hair and beard is leaning and looking down, with several broken chains extending out of the back of their head. One chain links through the words "Stop being a slave to the design." Another broken chain leads to a gun, one to a tray of drug paraphenalia, one to money signs and a devil skull with money symbols for eyes. The person is plugging a usb port into their forhead; the port is attached to a cord that becomes a hand holding a whip that is colored like the American flag. Behind the person there is a flat screen TV called "stereotype tv" with the image of two hands pulling apart bars in a cell.
    Stop Being a Slave to the Design by Steven Williams
  • Detail of: Large highly detailed colored pencil and pen drawing of many colorful birds sitting on branches, including parrots, bluejay, oriole, woodpeker, and more. A squirrel also sits on a branch. In the bottom right corner, a feminine person is visible in profile, with close cropped hair and yellow wings coming of their back. A garden of flowers and butterflies is in the background.
    Untitled (Aviary) by Andrew M. Moore (Detail Image 1)
  • A scene in a bedroom, in which a child with long brown hair is pulling the covers up to their chest, looking at the doorway with an expression of fear. In the doorway, a large, naked, muscular masculine person stands with one arm braced on the doorway, and one hand on their genitals. A long shadow from this person falls across the bed of the child.
    Thank You For Letting Me Know You Better (3) by Chontelle Shirk
  • Abstract drawing of colorful rectangles, with two interposed circles with partial outlines.
    Untitled (Abstract 5) by Brian Fuller
  • Cartoon style marker drawing of a Black person inside a cell, holding onto the bars of a small window with their hands in the foreground. The window is inside a red brick wall, and around the window is cracking cement with the words "Wrongfully Convicted 1993" on it.
    Wrongfully Convicted by Harun Akbar
  • Tree in the foreground, sky and grass in the background. Around the tree it says "Free Me"with a pink broken heart and hand cuffs below.
    Free Me by Branden Sier
  • An arm encased in a business suit with a flag pin on the cuff holds a bundle od sticks in the fist. The background fades from green to black. The word "look"is written in cursive.
    The Allegory 1 – Greed’s Handout by Elena House-Hay
  • Acrylic painting in bright, bold colors. The subject is a feminine person with tan skin, green eyes with dark lashes, black straight hair blowing, and red lips. They are facing to the side, but turning to look toward the viewer, seen from the upper torso and up. They are wearing a dress with no shoulders in blue, light blue, orange, and black, and a matching blue Sunday hat with a yellow orange ribbon. The background is composed of a geometric design of squares, rectangles, and lines in a variety of bold colors.
    Glimpse by Stephen Shappell
  • Chalk pastel drawing of a feminine face with light tan skin facing the viewer. The person has brown eyes with black eyeliner and yellow eyeshadow, rosy cheeks, and red lips. The hair is brown and shoulder length, partially down and partially with a bun on top. The face is soft and brushed but the details are clear; the hair has detailing in black.
    Untitled (pastels portrait) by Kamdyn Alexis Love
  • A kitchen scene, in which a brown haired child is standing on a stool at a yellow stove, wearing an oversized apron, and holding a spatula over a pan. The child has a shocked or afraid expression, and some food remnants in their hair. A shadow of an adult falls across the wall, with one arm upraised. A plate of food has been thrown against the wall behind the child, and the plate and smears of food are sliding down the wall.
    Thank You For Letting Me Know You Better (4) by Chontelle Shirk
  • Detailed acrylic painting of a montage of scenes overlapping each other. In the center of the image, three different masculine people are looking serious or contemplative. One with a dark beard and hair is wearing an orange jumpsuit, holding their head in their hand. Another with a crew cut and a black shirt is holding their chin in their hand. The third, with dark shoulder length locks, is standing straight wearing a button down white shirt, handcuffs around their writsts. Going clockwise around the painting are the following scenes: A closeup scene of items on a table, including a handgun, spilling pill bottles, wads of cash, a syringe, grains of a blue substance in a plastic baggie, and several glasses of alcohol; a badly crushed blue sports car; a night city scene from downtown Pittsburgh with an area blocked off in police tape and a chalk outline on the road, with two uniformed police officers leading someone in handcuffs into a police car, with several police cruisers parked in the background with lights on; two people wearing hooded sweatshirts and faces obscured passing things to each other; a person standing by a prison fence topped with concertina wire, holding a box of books and art, with a pile of books in front of them; a paper titled "RESUME"; a carpenter hammering a house frame; a rolled diploma; a grey house with flowers in the yard behind a house sign reading "SOLD;" several paychecks; a person with a hood and protective gear welding; a group of three people, likely a family, sharing food out of a bowl and smiling; a person standing in front of a crowd, wearing a suit and speaking into a microphone; and a person wearing a suit, sitting at a desk and computer with a certificate on the wall behind them.
    Community Re-Entry by Darrell Van Mastrigt
  • A red brick wall frames the bottom of the image. A pair of hands press down onto the wall, and six floating hands encircle a pink rounded ribbon. The ribbon has text written in black ink. On the bottom left, the ribbon says "1st ACT" with a closed fist punching towards the viewer." Above is a open bloodied hand and the ribbon is labeled "CONSEQUENCES." On the Upper Left corner is a limp handcuffed hand. In the middle are prayer hands with the words, "ACCOUNTABILITY." There is a grasping hand on the top right above "REAL CHANGE". Below is an open hand with a illuminated by yellow light from behind. Underneath are the words "2ND CHANCE."
    Evolution of Change by Steven Williams
  • Acrylic painting bordered in colored panels in red, black, and blue. In the center of the image, two iconic horror characters are facing off, Freddy on the left and Jason on the right. Freddy has a pocked and reddened face, is wearing a brimmed hat, and is showing a hand wearing a glove fitted with blades at the fingers. Jason is wearing a mask with only an eye visitble, and is holding a machete. Below them reads "Freddy vs. Jason." A dialogue is written in bubbles on the side panels: Jason says "Fred... What happen to your face and hand blade?" Freddy: "I know. It's the new artist! He sucks!!" Jason: "Sh sh sh, Ha ha ha."
    Jason vs. Freddy Comedic Strip by Roman Ellis
  • Portrait of two contrasting scenes. On the left are three crosses on a mountain top with sun bursting from the left hand corner. The right images is a natural forest landscape with a large waterfall and tall evergreen trees against a blue sky with black and purple tones for shading
    Open the Floodgates by Edward Gause
  • Very detailed acrylic painting with a series of overlapping montage scenes. Around the top, bottom, and sides of the painting are the phrases "Defy the Design," "As One," "Let's Get Free," and "Our Future Is All Of Us." The central scene is a Black main wearing a BLM shirt kneeling and clasping hands with a police officer in uniform, who is also kneeling. Going around the image clockwise are the following scenes: A Black uniformed police officer talking with children; a uniformed police officer leaning over and assisting a feminine person who is doubled over; a person wearing a backpack and a uniformed police officer doing an arm bump, a row of people chanting at a march or protest, linking arms, some wearing "March for Our Lives" t-shirts, and one uniformed police officer; a uniformed police officer leaning over to look at something someone is painting; a person wearing and American Indian Movement shirt shaking hands with a police officer in riot gear; and an older Black woman shaking hands with a uniformed police officer.
    Law Enforcement by Darrell Van Mastrigt
  • Portrait of a dog wearing an Eagles jersey
    Go Eagles by Edward Gause
  • A wooden cross with the words Hungry, Weak, Faint, Thirsty and Death. Surrounding the corss are other words. At the top is says 'Galations 5:24'
    I Don’t Carry What Jesus Died For by Denise Crump
  • Background painted in watercolor showing a sun with yellow wavy pointed rays, flower-like in shape, with a black center with a white spiral extended from the middle of it. Behind the sun is painted in variable blue shades. Over the center of the black center of the sun, the words "Black Hole Sun" are hand written in black and metallic gold pen. Over the blue background and sun, these words are hand written in white gel pen: "There are many days when I feel discouraged or just not with it mentally. The dark day is how I feref to these moments. Like being in a black hole going in circles because everyday is the same, and endless cycle. My actions are what got me here so why can't my actions and changes I've made to my life secure my freedom. This is when I look to the sun which reminds me there are brighter days ahead and Reasons to believe more changes will come. Hope is easy to lose, but can also be found just as easily."
    Black Hole Sun by Jessica Strohl
  • Acrylic painting in a somewhat brushy style of a montage of scenes. At the top center, a lion's face is looking directly at the viewer, with several green blades of plants and an orange to yellow sky in the the background. At the center bottom of the page, a brown skinned feminine person with a large colorful head wrapping, large hoop earrings, and several silver collar necolaces is looking to the right of the page. Behind and to the right of the person, an elephant is facing the viewer. To the left of the person, a lion and cub are laying together.
    I Am by Richard Robinson
  • Very detailed acrylic painting of a feminine person with brown skin and eyes facing forward, wearing traditional clothing, including a thick fur hat, red and gold buttoned top, and a set of metal medallions hanging from the hat.
    Woman from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan by Dominic Newsome
  • Very detailed acrylic portrait of a feminine person with light skin, brown eyes, and black hair swept up and pinned with red roses. They are wearing a black traditional Japanese jacket that is decorated with red roses and gold lining, and a decorated handle of a sword or knife is visible tucked into the front of their jacket.
    Japanese Warrior by Dominic Newsome
  • Portrait of two figures with spears centered with a hut and foliage in the background. The primary figure is a Black woman with twists A moon with is at the top right corner of the painting.
    Warriors by Edward Gause
  • Colored pencil drawing of a dark skinned family, all shown in profile. The father and son are looking into each other's eyes, and the mother and daughter are looking into each others eyes. In the background, through the center of each pair, a large dark grey crack runs from the top to the bottom of the piece.
    Broken Family by Steven Williams
  • A 5 panel collage on black, each panel includes a stanza of the poem and imagry. The 1st panel is addressed to Voracious Kudzu with Kudzu imagery, 2nd panel is addressed to Soaring Phonons with red and yellow waving ribbons, 3rd is addressed to Sacred Mycelia with fungus images, 4th is addressed to Omnipotent Ocean with water imagery, and 5th is addressed to Incandescent Lava with images of erupting volcanos.
    A Prayer for the Abolition of Prisons and Policing IV by Endjah Sunlei
  • Acrylic painting of a hunched elderly man with pale skin, bushy grey eyebrows, and an expanse of blank skin where there would typically be a mouth. He is wearing a blue cone shaped party hat and a green shirt. The background behind him is grey with an arc of pale yellow circles behind him. At the bottom of the image, painted words read: "he had nothing more to say".
    He Had Nothing More To Say by Mary Diehl
  • Abstract drawing of a single line making curves and overlapping circles with blue pen. Single wavelength inside some of the overlapping areas.
    Curlicue by Vaughn Wright
  • Abstract drawing of a single line making curves, spikes, and overlapping circles with blue pen. Single wavelength inside some of the overlapping areas.
    Calm Down by Vaughn Wright
  • Landscape painting in brushy style, with the edges of the piece brushed to white unpainted canvas. A lake of pond is in the foreground, bordered by trees and with a standing dead tree in the lake, along with brush and reeds, which are reflected in the glassy lake. The sky is sunset colors from blue to orange, and are also reflected in the lake. There are purple mountains in the background.
    Untitled (Lake) by Jason Gottstein
  • A skeleton in a prayer form, words surround the form "To the eyes that read these words...LOVE" "Do not fear love" "Fear Hate" "Let us be One" "Let faith in humanity never be lost"
    Do Not Fear Love by Anthony Alvarez
  • A 5 panel collage on black, each panel includes a stanza of the poem and imagry. The 1st panel is addressed to Voracious Kudzu with Kudzu imagery, 2nd panel is addressed to Soaring Phonons with red and yellow waving ribbons, 3rd is addressed to Sacred Mycelia with fungus images, 4th is addressed to Omnipotent Ocean with water imagery, and 5th is addressed to Incandescent Lava with images of erupting volcanos.
    A Prayer for the Abolition of Prisons and Policing I by Endjah Sunlei
  • Detail of: A hand-made gown made of painted fabric in red orange. The top of the gown is sleeveless with a scalloped cut, and is painted with a pattern of scales. The skirt of the dress is made of orange overlapping feather shapes, made from painted fabric. It has a corset back and a tag sewn in that says K-Love Designs. It's size 14-16. There is a matching shawl in the same hues of reds and oranges that is patterned and cut like a pair of wings.
    Gown & Shawl by Kamdyn Alexis Love (Detail Image 3)
  • A feminine adult with blond hair and an enraged expression is lifting a child by the neck, holding them up against the corner of a wall. The child has brown hair, and is looking at the adult and holding the arm that is around their neck. Next to them, a framed picture on the wall shows a feminine adult lovingly and playfully lifting a child in the air.
    Thank You For Letting Me Know You Better (7) by Chontelle Shirk
  • Detailed pencil drawing inside a printed border of musician Busta Rhymes, standing in front of a stone wall. Busta Rhymes has short dark hair, is grimacing at the viewer, and making a hand symbol. He is wearing thick matching jewelry. "Busta Rhymes" is written in hand written script in the top left corner.
    Busta Rhymes by Roman Ellis
  • Colored pencil drawing of the Earth. Two hands, one light skinned and one dark skinned, each holding daggers, are stabbing into the earth, which spills over with orange molten lava at the cut. Over the Earth, a child's hands hold a red heart.
    From Love to Hate by Steven Williams
  • Colored pencil drawing of ocean water and sky. A large jar is in the foreground, cracked in half, with the words "I broke out, I'm free!" handwritten next to it. In the background there is a ship with large sails, and each sail is in different colors, including the colors of the trans flag, the nonbinary flag, the pansexual flag, as well as green and orange sails, and two flags reading "Pride" and "Love."
    I Broke Out, I’m Me! by Timber Trewitz
  • Crocheted blanket with thick zig zagging parrallel stripes in yellow, gold, white, black, light green, forest green, sky blue, and royal blue.
    Crocheted Blanket by Tony Scott
  • A feminine person with long blonde hair stands with their back to a crib with a blankly sad expression. In the crib, a baby cries with firsts held in the air. The baby's legs are blackened. Both figures are rendered in colored pencil and graphite with soft shadows, with the wall behind painted in textured blue watercolor and purple.
    Thank You For Letting Me Know You Better (2) by Chontelle Shirk
  • Painting in brown coffee on brown paper bag. Two criss-crossing cogged wheels read the words "The wheels of justice turn slowly," and are shaded in a way that creates an optical illusion of the shape of the wheels. In the center of the wheels, a lady justice figure stands blindfolded, holding a set up scales up. Below, a muscular figure is straining to push one of the wheels.
    Illusion of Justice by Todd “Hyung Rae” Tarselli
  • A man with a sarcastic smirk flips off at the viewer. His fingers spell out "DAUGHTERS", and his hands are cuffed. His body is red, yellow, orange, and pink. His right has a face tattoo. A face above bites his head.
    Untitled (The Birds) by Muwsa Green
  • A 5 panel collage on black, each panel includes a stanza of the poem and imagry. The 1st panel is addressed to Voracious Kudzu with Kudzu imagery, 2nd panel is addressed to Soaring Phonons with red and yellow waving ribbons, 3rd is addressed to Sacred Mycelia with fungus images, 4th is addressed to Omnipotent Ocean with water imagery, and 5th is addressed to Incandescent Lava with images of erupting volcanos.
    A Prayer for the Abolition of Prisons and Policing II by Endjah Sunlei
  • Multicolored camouflage globe with a grim reaper and the words "FUCK ICE" in the center of an American flag. The words " IMPEACH TRUMP are underneath the flag.
    Fuck Ice, Impeach Trump by Ms. GeGe Morales
  • Acrylic painting, background comprised of a a rainbow of bright colors in thick flat curves. The subject of the image is a stylized butterfly painted in black, facing to the side. The wing is outlined in thick black, and the color of the wings is a blend of neon colors from orange, pink, purple, blue, green, to yellow.
    Butterfly Prism by Steven Musser
  • New School style Joker with small green mohawk and single gold earring coming out of a light sea foam green brick wall.
    Braking Out With a Smile by Kelly Lynn William
  • Pencil drawing of an owl, midflight and facing the viewer. Half of the owl is drawn in detailed pencil, with detailing and texture on the feathers. The other half of the owl is made of up mechanical looking elements, replacing the feather and eye of the owl, colored with silver and gold paint.
    AI vs. Nature by Steven Musser
  • A washy water color painting in the background of a brown house with a pathway, tree, garden flowers, and green lawn. Over this painting, these words are hand written in black pen: "Dreams / Being in prison I have a lot of time on my hands to think... and Dream. My derams are no different than anyone else's. Only I have yet to start, being away from everyone I care about. Or, do I? Maybe I just have more time to plan and know just what I want, how to go about it by learning what I don't know. Is this not what the world strives for? When my freedom is obtained I know I won't miss a day to stop and appreciate even the smallest of things most people take for granted. One day at a time I will set goals until I have the life I have dreamed of for over three decades!!!"
    Dreams by Jessica Strohl
  • Six images are set in the letters of the word emerge: a seascape, mountains,stars and grass, a diner counter and a city skyline, the milky way and a hospital bed, an airplane window surrounded by tourist attractions from around the world, and the banks of a stream and a manhole cover.
    The Allegory 4 – Emergence by Elena House-Hay
  • Crocheted hat and scarf set in light grey yarn, with a striped pattern on both.
    Grey Hat & Scarf Set-stripes by Cornelius Green
  • Abstract drawing of a single line making curves and overlapping circles with blue pen. Single wavelength inside some of the overlapping areas.
    Slow Motion by Vaughn Wright
  • Crocheted hat and scarf set with coral, black, and white dots pattern. The hat has a pom pom, and the scarf has fringe at the ends.
    Checked Hat & Scarf Set by Carlos Figueroa
  • Portrait of Black woman with locs with her back facing us in a tropical setting, with a large drum to the right forefront of the painting with Black man's side profile to the back right of the image.
    I.C.U. (I See You) by Edward Gause
  • Stylized image of a poker card transformed into a face shaped portrait. Spades for eyes, clubs in the crown and for the nose with hearts, diamonds, and king symbols. Vibrant colors of purple, red, blue, yellow, black and green in chalk pastels.
    Poker Face by Joseph Aulisio
  • Abstract drawing of colorful shapes, including rectangles and circles.
    Untitled (Abstract 6) by Brian Fuller
  • A feminine person with brown hair sprints down a pathway away from a house, crying. The front door of the house is open and glowing yellow, and surrounded by a grassy lawn and the night sky.
    Thank You For Letting Me Know You Better (8) by Chontelle Shirk
  • The head of a bull, with nose ring and red eyes, has smoke coming from its nostrals. A rose is formed within the smoke. Behind the bull's head is the blue field and red stripes of the American flag.
    The Bull and the Rose by Anthony Alvarez
  • Background covered in overlapping watercolor colors, with some bright colors and many colors overlapping in muted and dark areas. Hand writing in white gel pen on top reads: "Chaos / How do you tell a 7yr old his father/best friend is gone, by his own hand? My heart goes out to my duaghter for the strength to do this. I'm grateful for my family being there for them, offering the comfort and support my daughter and grandson need during this tragic moment in their lives. I an't help but to feel helpfless because I'm not there to hold them and take some of the weight off them with all the decisions that need to be made. They are so hurt and angry. My daughter struggles with the thought of being a single parent, being able to provide for her son yet still be a solid presence for him. This is yet another moment in her life where she needs me and I'm not there with her. I call every day and let her vent all her feeling, offering what I can to support her and letting her know she will get through this. I truly admire her for the strength she has."
    Chaos by Jessica Strohl
  • Three people in front of a storefront called "Defying the Design" with a sign "Life Hope Love & Future" on the door. One person is saying "Ya'll Are All I Need!"
    Defying The Design by Khalil Hammond
  • Crocheted hat and scarf set in light grey yarn, with a zig zag pattern on both.
    Grey Hat & Scarf Set-zig zag by Cornelius Green
  • A series of four globes shows continents reforming in the shape of a heart.. NEW PANGAE and 2026 are written in red. The background is red and blue stars.
    New Pangae by Anthony Alvarez
  • Briar bird on a branch inside a hole inside a red brick wall.
    Free as a Bird by Ajamu Oleshegun Iyapo
  • A brown haired feminine person is crouching in a crawl space, head down, with their arm around a dog and knees tucked to their chest. A taller feminine person with blond hair and an enraged expression is opening the crawlspace and yelling, with a hammer in their hand.
    Thank You For Letting Me Know You Better (6) by Chontelle Shirk
  • Black matte, hot pink frame, and black cross-stitch with "All Hearts Lead Home" in magenta thread. A pink, magenta, and yellow compass with a heart in the center is in between the words "All Hearts" and "Lead Home"
    All Hearts Lead Home by Denise Crump
  • Detail of: A hand-made gown made of painted fabric in red orange. The top of the gown is sleeveless with a scalloped cut, and is painted with a pattern of scales. The skirt of the dress is made of orange overlapping feather shapes, made from painted fabric. It has a corset back and a tag sewn in that says K-Love Designs. It's size 14-16. There is a matching shawl in the same hues of reds and oranges that is patterned and cut like a pair of wings.
    Gown & Shawl by Kamdyn Alexis Love (Detail Image 2)
  • Marker-and-crayon drawing of a Black person behind a window with bars. The window is set in a red-and-yellow brick wall, and the surrounding cement is cracking. Under the window are the words "Let's Get Free"
    Let’s Get Free by Harun Akbar
  • Abstract acrylic painting. Spare paint work, much of blank canvas visible. Several thick brush strokes in gold paint. Several gold and red squiggles across the image.
    Inyan by Roman Ellis
  • A 5 panel collage on black, each panel includes a stanza of the poem and imagry. The 1st panel is addressed to Voracious Kudzu with Kudzu imagery, 2nd panel is addressed to Soaring Phonons with red and yellow waving ribbons, 3rd is addressed to Sacred Mycelia with fungus images, 4th is addressed to Omnipotent Ocean with water imagery, and 5th is addressed to Incandescent Lava with images of erupting volcanos.
    A Prayer for the Abolition of Prisons and Policing V by Endjah Sunlei
  • Six human figures holding hands in a circle with a heart in the center. Each human is a different color. There is text above that says "United We Stand"
    United We Stand by Missy Galo
  • Colored pencil drawing with outlines in black marker. On the right of the page, colorful squares and rectangles are stacked together, and on the left of the page colorful triangles are grouped together, creating different geometric shapes. In the center of the pages handwritten in black pen are the words "We're all different but equal!" and "Love 4 all."
    We’re All Different But Equal by Timber Trewitz
  • Acrylic painting with a mottled blue background. A green martini glass without a base is filled with a splashing red liquid. Above the glass in shadowed font reads "CUPS" and below the glass reads "ACE."
    Ace of Cups by Roman Ellis
  • Acyrlic painting with an expressionistic style. In the middle of the image, a human figure sits, surrounded in billowing flames in bright orange, red, and yellow. The person's face is grayish and blue, with closed eyes and a stoic expression. The flames sweep around the person in a growing arc, reaching up from below the person and curling back down. A can of gasoline is behind the person, and a blue car is in the background.
    Burning for Freedom by Shane Daly
  • Abstract acrylic painting with a black background with red and blue streaks. An oblong rounded shape has a border made up of small white dots. There is one small compartment in the shape that is filled in with yellow and red. The interior of the shape is a mottled blue, containing a yellow curved tear shape, surrounded by white dots, and with white and red dots in the center of it.
    Mojo by Roman Ellis
  • Detail of: Large highly detailed colored pencil and pen drawing of many colorful birds sitting on branches, including parrots, bluejay, oriole, woodpeker, and more. A squirrel also sits on a branch. In the bottom right corner, a feminine person is visible in profile, with close cropped hair and yellow wings coming of their back. A garden of flowers and butterflies is in the background.
    Untitled (Aviary) by Andrew M. Moore (Detail Image 3)
  • An Asian person stands by a park bench on a boardwalk near a roofed pavillion and a pagoda style street light. A full moon is in the night sky..
    Untitled, Far off Land by Anthony Alvarez
  • A Skull is pierced by two crossed wooden spikes. The eye sockets contain firey orange and blue eyes. The slack jaw reveals 10 prison cells and solitary confinement. The top of the skull is labeled Prison Yard and Hand Ball. Atop the skull is prison walls. The skull is surrounded by blue, pink, purple and yellow shapes. There is a red rose in the lower left corner and a yellow flower on the left side..
    Defy the Design by Muwsa Green
  • A fox plush sits in front of a background of green, purple, yelllow, blue dripping hearts.
    Drippy Hearts by Shawn Freemore
  • An acrylic painting with a mostly black background, with mottled tan at the corners. A crescent moon is at the center of the image, cupped upward. The moon has a human face, eyes and lips closed. Inside the concave curve of the moon, there is a light blue sun-like star shape, with rays radiating outward, with small white starbursts and gold flecks. Below the moon white ripples radiate outward in concentric circles.
    Untitled (Moon) by Jessica Strohl
  • Large art piece with a painted background that blends neon colors from blue, purple, pink, orange, and yellow. The center of the image is a large mosaic style collage made of photographs of a feminine person, ranging in age from baby to adulthood. The photographs are cut and arranged in a starburst from the center, and together compose the image of lady liberty holding the scales of justice. Surrounding the collage are large words painted in transparent white including "Justice," "Judge," "Moral," "Just," "Reasonable," and "Righteous." Each of these words is overlayed with a definition of the word in black painted script. Below the feel of the lady libery collage, a plinth is painted in black with the words "Justice for Kathryn."
    Justice for Kathryn by Kevin Dowling
  • Two zebras face the viewer, one nuzzling the other. Yellow-to-orange gradient background.
    Zebra Embrace by Ms. GeGe Morales
  • Square mandala shaped design with many colorful, intricate designs hung on a wood panel wall.
    Beauty in Defiance by Ajamu Oleshegun Iyapo
  • Landscape scene with a blue creek running into the distance. The green landscape is dotted with white trees in leaf, and a pointed mountain is in the distance. A path from the creek leads to a wood cabin with broken windows. Two deer stand by the cabin, looking up.
    Untitled (Mountain Cabin) by Virgil Tuttle
  • A green-eyed bearded man in prison browns wearing a backwards baseball cap with neck tats. Bars are visible in his open mouth. His shirt bears a label OU4GOT BARBER. Written around his head is "Society Sentenced This Child To Die. Inside He Thrived. Unwilling To Breath. He Is Silenced, But He is Strong. Three gray vertical bars in the background bear the mirror image of the words: NO CHANCE OF DEPARTMENT.
    Self Portrait by Dominic Barber
  • White stick-like figures are falling behind steel bars across the top of the image. The rest of the image is a stylized eye with another white stick figure standing in the pupil. "learn" is written in white cursive.
    The Allegory 3 – Falling Eyes Open by Elena House-Hay
  • Abstract drawing with colorful circles engulfed by differently colored lines, with straight and curved muted lines in the background.
    Untitled (Abstract 4) by Brian Fuller
  • A detailed pencil drawing of a rose with the words "Earth to seed, as man to woman. We begin to grow, a long dark journey through the soil, like going down the canal. Toward the light, into a world we enter, Taller & Stronger we become as we beginto grow, as leaves from a stem. The journey of life, like a rose to bloom. We reach for the sky as life begins to wilt, as petals begin to fall to the ground" in cursive.
    No Beauty Is Alike by Jason Keiser
  • Portrait of a Phoenix with wings as flames centered in front of images symbolising incarceration in the background. A skull, cemetery, person with DOC number, with Let's Get Free text at the lower part of the page. There are five rectangular panels drawn on the bottom of the image each with text and images on each (Fields with a image of a strawberry, PCRA wth a scale, Pen Pal with a smiley face and peace sign, Hat Factory, and Unforgiven wih a tombstone in chalk pastels
    Phoenix Rising from Incarceration by Joseph Aulisio
  • Graphite pencil drawing with a shaded pencil background. A pair of feet, toes pointing up, soles facing the viewer. A shackle is attached to one ankle with a chain that leads to a pocket watch, one side of which is smashed, showing the inside gears. Barbed wire drawn in pen circles around the feet. A mortuary tag is tied onto one of the toes, reading "DBI: 07814, CP198437"
    Untitled (DBI) by Norman McDonald
  • Abstract painting with a mix of muted and bright colors, with three bursts of colors.
    Untitled (Color Bursts) by Timber Trewitz
  • Large collage of many images of social movements and protests. The words "We the People" are painted on top in constitutional font, in intricate blue, green, and tan colors. Near the top of the image the word "Freedom" is painted in red, and near the bottom the word "Defiant" is painted in red.
    Untitled (We the People) by Larry Yaw
  • Behind is a wood-paneled background. A man with dark features plays his blue guitar sitting on a gray stool. He wears a maroon DOC uniform. He is entrapped in a black bird cage. Below are the words "CAGED BIRD, KEEP SINGING!"
    Caged Bird, Keep Singing! by Caspian Miller
  • A facial portrait showng anxiety on a background of rainbow colored puzzle pieces.
    Imbuzzlement so much Puzzlement by Brenda Carroll
  • A feminine person with brown hair cut in a bob is standing in the center of the page with a set stance, holding a sledgehammer in one hand and making a fist with the other. They are in a room with grey walls covered in framed pictures, all in black and grey. Each picture frame is smashed with splintered glass.
    Thank You For Letting Me Know You Better (5) by Chontelle Shirk
  • Abstract acrylic painting with blue brushy marks across the image. A yellow shape nests in a blue mark, with white circles and outlines, and black marks shadowing. A black shape emerges out of a blue mark. Several white dots across image. An area is dry brushed with blue, yellow, and red.
    Skan by Roman Ellis
  • Swahili word 'Uhuru' written downwards in 'Afrikan Diasporic Glyph,' which translate into the 'English' word 'freedom' embedded plaque in concrete. African continent on the left, Black Power fist on the right. Two butterflies, ivy, and cracks in concrete surrounding the plaque.
    Freedom by Ajamu Oleshegun Iyapo
  • Crocheted afghan blanket with blocks pattern in white, black, and dark red.
    Blocks by Cyd Berger
  • An anthropomorphised eagle faces the viewer, wearing a green and white football jersey with the number 00. One yellow taloned hand is holding a football, and the other is reaching toward the viewer, with a white bandage across it. A brushy border in black paint surrounds the eagle.
    Untitled (Eagles) by Roman Ellis
  • A silohetted woman sitting at the bottom of a hill with chains around her and a ball that says "LWOP 36 years". There is a gold fence and barb wire with butterflys behind. To the right there are black rectangles with the number 16 at the top and the inmate number at the bottom.
    Freedom’s Struggle Freedom’s Cry…Voice of the Incarcerated Woman by Jennifer Rhodes
  • A city street with colorful buildings, a street made of greenery, and grey sidewalks. These are all marked with clear white lines.
    Street Abolition by Muwsa Green
  • Detail of: Large highly detailed colored pencil and pen drawing of many colorful birds sitting on branches, including parrots, bluejay, oriole, woodpeker, and more. A squirrel also sits on a branch. In the bottom right corner, a feminine person is visible in profile, with close cropped hair and yellow wings coming of their back. A garden of flowers and butterflies is in the background.
    Untitled (Aviary) by Andrew M. Moore (Detail Image 2)
  • A collage of black and white images, including a transgender symbol, an eye, glasses, hearts, question mark, and various documents on a pale rainbow background
    Prison by Kelly Zawodniak
  • Very detailed acrylic portrait of a masculine person with brown, wrinkled skin, brown eyes, and shoulder length black hair. A red fabric is wrapped around their head, and they are wearing a purple garment covered by a green shawl.
    Apache Warrior by Dominic Newsome
  • "I Pledge allegiance TO Humanity & to the planet We all share ONE SPECIES living under the STARS seeeking LOVE & justice For All" embroidered in various hand lettering fonts on white hankerchief.
    The Pledge by Amanda Hein
  • Two skeletons with shoulder length red/brown hair face eachother dancing (one hand and leg up). Between them is a floating anatomical heart and yellow infinity sign. Above and surrounding them are various brightly colored items (flowers, commet, foot, head, moon) with teeth, eyes, and skulls. The mouths are mouths with bold red lips and jagged teeth. The eyes have a single bold colored irises (red. gree, blue, purple, yellow), many with veins. The background is black.
    Untitled (Skeleton Dance) by Chloey Persephone Moon Grant
  • In the foreground, two human figures are drawn in soft colored pencils and graphite, with strong black outlines. One is a shirtless masculine person with an enraged expression kicking the belly of the other person, about to make contact. The second person is a pregnant feminine person with blonde hair, with a fetus visible in her belly, leaning against a table with closed eyes and leaning away from the assailant. The background of the image is a geometic kaleidesope with strong black outlines over watercolored blue/red and greens.
    Thank You For Letting Me Know You Better (1) by Chontelle Shirk
  • Portrait of an adult dog sharing kisses with a pup
    A Mother’s Love by Edward Gause
  • Vintage cartoon style marker drawing in orange, green, yellow, and black of a small human inside a hanging birdcage. There are words to each side of the cage reading "What if you were innocent but stuck here!!!"
    What If You Were Innocent and Stuck Here? by Harun Akbar
  • Poem over a woman's face. Fabric around her head covers one eye. Figures and chairs throughout her hair: Statue of justice, judge holding gaval, cops making arrests, someone behind bars, woman holding a baby.
    Po’Etiquette JustUs by Jamar Travillion
  • Abstract neon vertical lines with a distortion in the center
    Paw Print by Shawn Freemore
  • Detail of: A hand-made gown made of painted fabric in red orange. The top of the gown is sleeveless with a scalloped cut, and is painted with a pattern of scales. The skirt of the dress is made of orange overlapping feather shapes, made from painted fabric. It has a corset back and a tag sewn in that says K-Love Designs. It's size 14-16. There is a matching shawl in the same hues of reds and oranges that is patterned and cut like a pair of wings.
    Gown & Shawl by Kamdyn Alexis Love (Detail Image 1)
  • Detailed painting in brown coffee on brown paper bag with white highlights. A human figure, shoulders up, leans slightly forward with a distressed expression and all-white eyes, with prison bars crossing behind them. In front of them an hourglass hovers, with sand pouring down through it.
    Time by Todd “Hyung Rae” Tarselli
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