The Confined Arts forms strategic collaborations enabling multi-dimensional advocacy strategies. With the help of our partners, we are in a unique position to build the capacity for:

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ARTISTS

Students and Researchers

Advocates and advocacy organizations

who are directly impacted by the criminal legal system to become more effective advocates by providing them with:

• advocacy tools to creatively leverage personal experience
• leadership training and personal mentorship ​
• entrepreneurial support 
• artistic development support

 at Columbia University to create methodologies and find data that is more accurate, culturally responsive and culturally aware by:

• fostering relationships where researchers and students can preliminarily discuss research topics, and strategies with people who are directly impacted by issues they are researching;
• And providing opportunities to conduct and apply research MORE.​

to integrate more creative and artistic methods of strategic engagement – and, consequently, advance the outcomes of their ongoing advocacy efforts – by 

• fostering relationships between artists who are directly impacted and advocates;
• designing projects that convert quantitative and qualitative data into living, emotional testimonies that encourage a call to action;
• working directly with artists and advocates who are currently incarcerated to develop grassroots strategies for policy engagement.

Guy Woodard, St. Francis College