Events

• ArtSpring featured in Carol Cohan's blog, Programs That Work, on May 30, 2012

• Healing Arts, Spring 2012 Art Exhibition at Homestead Correctional Institution

• Correctional Compass Article - Shakespeare in Prison! on April 10, 2012

• Women's Fund of Miami-Dade short film of the Community Performance of "Celestial" on November 13, 2011 at Homestead Correctional Institution. Click here to watch it now on YouTube.

• Dance and Drumming Workshop Performance in partnership with Belafonte TACOLCY Center, Inc. Tuesday, August 9, 2011 — Little Haiti Cultural Center

• "Bookshelf" mural, created by ArtSpring particpants at Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, Miami-Dade Regional Juvenile Detention Center, highlighted in the Winter/Spring 2011 issue of The J Times

• Female state prison inmates perform the Greek tradegy 'Elecktra' – The Miami Herald, April 16, 2011

• "Students Hear Firsthand How Dance Transforms Prisoners" - The University of Tampa-News, November 16, 2010

• "Mural a testament to teens' redemption" - The Miami Herald, November 2, 2010

• Public Domain Foundation: Music 2 Life- Fellows Program Documentary announcement, March 2, 2010. Click here to watch it now on YouTube.

• Small Arts Organization Saving Money for Florida Taxpayers: ArtSpring 2009 Residency at Lowell Correctional Institution

• ArtSpring featured on WLRN ArtStreet segment called Healing Through Dance (produced by Meredith Porte, May 2008). Click here to watch it now on YouTube (or go to YouTube and search: Modern Dance As Prisoner Rehab)

• ArtSpring Newsletter - Summer 2008

• ArtSpring Newsletter - Holiday Edition 2007
  

• "Voices from the inside: An arts program is helping inmates share the harsh realities of prison in the hope of helping at-risk girls avoid the same fate." – The Miami Herald, October 14, 2007
  

• ArtSpring Newsletter - End of Summer 2007

• Any One of Us: Words from Prison: Miami, Thursday, October 18, 2007 at Gusman Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida - Press Release September 7, 2007

• Bridging the Gap documentary film and presentation of readings Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at Cinema Paradiso in Ft. Lauderdale - Press Release July 16, 2007
  

• Reentry National Media Outreach Campaign – June 2007 newsletter announcing Bridging the Gap film documentary
   
• "Women prisoners describe hard life to teenage girls from Miami-Dade" – South Florida Sun Sentinel, April 24, 2007
   
• ArtSpring Newsletter – Spring 2007 Edition
  
  
• ArtSpring Newsletter – Fall 2006 Edition
  
  
• ArtSpring Newsletter – Spring 2006 Edition
  
  
• Bridging the Gap Writing Workshop - Press Release issued by the Florida Department of Corrections, March 10, 2006 http://www.dc.state.fl.us/secretary/press/2006/BridgingGap.html
  
  
• ArtSpring Newsletter – Winter 2005 Edition
  
  
• “ArtSpring Inc. hosts luncheon forum on role of community arts in region” – Miami Today, October 13, 2005
  
  
• “Blue Lines, Steel, and the Hour of Myth: Women in prison transcend violence, tedium, and the past” – Miami New Times, February 12, 2004
  
  
• “Artist leads troubled teens to self-expression” – The Miami Herald, November 15, 2002
  
  
• “Walls of Hurt, Walls of Hope” – Tampa Bay Woman, June 2002
  
  
• “Miles from Nowhere: Teaching Dance in Prison” – by Leslie Neal, originally published in High Performance magazine, Spring 1996
  
  

Ruth, Homestead Correctional Institution, Inside Out Participant 2002

“I think our group creates together something that is beautiful. I’ve learned to build better relationships. There was a time when I did not care about anyone, and I did not need anyone. I’ve learned to re-evaluate my thinking and re-evaluate people......Relationships are important. I find that if there’s any discord of any sort, especially with those that you consider a friend and care about, you try to find a way to work it out and make it better. So, I think the value of relationships...it has a greater importance to me now, since being in this program.”

Debbie, Broward Correctional Institution, Inside Out Participant 1995, now released