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:
- Artists who are directly impacted by the criminal legal system to become more effective advocates
- By providing them with advocacy tools
- By connecting them to opportunities to utilize their artistry for ongoing advocacy efforts
- By honing artistic craft to create effective and impactful artistry
- By advising them on connecting content to form for increased effectiveness
- Network building & social capital (relationship building)
- Research access
- By providing to them with leadership training/Development
- By providing to them with entrepreneurial support
- By providing to them with Artistic Development Support
- By providing them with advocacy tools
- Students and Researchers at Columbia University to create and conduct more accurate and culturally responsive/aware data and methodologies
- 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
- By providing opportunities to conduct and apply research
- Advocates and advocacy organizations to integrate more creative and artistic methods of strategic engagement to advance the outcomes of their ongoing advocacy efforts
- By fostering relationships between artists who are directly impacted and advocates
- By designing projects that convert statistics, stories, etc. into living, emotional testimonies that encourage a call to action
- By working directly with artists and advocates who are currently incarcerated to develop grassroots strategies for policy engagement
