The Linkage Community is a collective of artists and creators with lived experience in prison who are interested in deepening their craft in spaces of radical acceptance and authentic connections. Through professional development and artistic workshops, a creative peer-support network, and opportunities to exhibit and perform, Linkage connects with community allies to maximize the impact of the arts and the artists.

We envision a wide and far reaching arts landscape that:

• Embraces the hard work and talents of multidimensional artists.
• Acknowledges that artists’ complex identities and stories are worthy of taking up space.
• Does not limit, nor define, artists by a former experience of incarceration.

Linkage is consistently evolving through the aspirations of its current members, guiding its direction of development, while meeting each individual artist wherever they may be.