by Prison Story Project | Mar 19, 2019 | News
Story by Matt Henriksen I had been making art all my life when I started teaching for the Prison Story Project in 2014 and learned that art has the power to heal. Somehow I had written poems for over thirty years without acknowledging what I was after, but the...
by Prison Story Project | Nov 27, 2018 | News
We received the following letter from Dr. Kristi Costello, Assistant Professor of Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing Studies at Arkansas State in Jonesboro after the Arkansas tour was completed. (Dr. Costello arranged for our performances at the Harrisburg Juvenile...
by Prison Story Project | Oct 6, 2018 | News
Thanks to Troy Schremmer, our theatre director, the staged reading script of “On The Row” has been adapted for high schools and the actors are being auditioned and hired. The tour begins October 15, 2018 as follows: October 14: Encore fundraiser at St....
by Prison Story Project | Aug 6, 2018 | News
The staged reading of “On The Row: Stories From Arkansas Death Row Inmates” will be presented in Bethany and Wheeling, West Virginia as follows: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 7:30pm Wailes Theatre, Steinman Hall Bethany College – Bethany, West...
by Prison Story Project | Jul 10, 2018 | News
The Prison Story Project has been awarded a matching grant by Mid-America Arts Alliance in the amount of $13,500 to tour the staged reading of On The Row. The script for the staged reading is taken from the writing of eleven men on death row that we met with over six...
by Prison Story Project | May 18, 2018 | News
The Prison Story Project has been awarded a grant in the amount of $4,300 to help tour the staged reading of On The Row across the State of Arkansas for high school and adult performances through 2018. Since 1998, Episcopal Evangelism Society has been funding work...
