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Recently, I traveled to Lansing to install my artwork for the Linkage Community’s This Is Us exhibit. The Linkage Community is a program affiliated with the University of Michigan that showcases art from formerly incarcerated artists. The installation is now displayed in a high-traffic area among Spartans (200 Albert St, East Lansing, MI 48823), a place where…

December 7th I attended the 29th annual PCAP art auction. It was a profoundly moving experience that left an indelible impact on me to say the least. The event was hosted by Shelly Mac to raise money for the upcoming PCAP art exhibition that would showcase the works of inmates from the MDOC who had…

What can I say or how do I describe this year’s first Friendsgiving with the Linkage Community? For one, it was definitely an experience—one that I will never forget. To be completely transparent, I am a very reticent and introverted individual, so when it comes to social gatherings, I often find myself feeling anxious and…

I was a fine art major at Wayne State. I have participated in art exhibitions before but this was a new experience. Many of the pieces I chose to show at Silver Maples were completed while I was in prison. One of my goals while incarcerated was to host an art exhibition of “Prison Drawings”. 

July 18th, 2024: Linkage musicians and poets performed at the Ann Arbor Art Fair’s Stage on Main.

I noticed it was a cool June 8th-type of Saturday morning as I skateboarded through downtown Ann Arbor, ascending to East Quadrangle for a screen printing workshop. Not the pretentious cool type of June day, but more of a mellow-fellow of a morning. It was unbelievably surreal to be in the dead streets of Ann…

In 1901 the Detroit Tigers played their first official game. But what were they called before that? Well to my surprise there was two names volleyed from “The Detroiters” and even at one point “Wolverines” before they arrived finally to our beloved Detroit Tigers. I find a new appreciation for the legacy and heritage of…

As I sit in the Duderstadt Gallery on the campus of University of Michigan reflecting on the day I am surrounded by people that are connected to the artists inside Michigan Prisons. I see the joy on their faces and listen to the stories they tell of their loved ones. Their pride is both visible…

It was a warm sunny Tuesday evening. The birds were chirping. I smelled the scent of spring, new sprouting grass, a new life beginning to bloom all around me. Not just the actual physical world around me, but an inner blooming was taking place within me. Everything was new to me, new sights, new sounds,…