by Prison Story Project | Apr 12, 2019 | News
Kathy McGregor travelled to Little Rock, Arkansas to attend an evening with Sister Helen Prejean at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. Sister Prejean gave a compelling talk with heart for both victims and death row inmates. At the book signing she was gracious enough...
by Prison Story Project | Mar 20, 2019 | News
The Prison Story Project will begin its summer tour of “On The Row” June, 2019 thanks to generous grant from Mid-America Arts Alliance with matching funds from Episcopal Evangelism Society and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. The cities and dates have been finalized, and...
by Prison Story Project | Mar 20, 2019 | News
Geffrey Davis, University of Arkansas professor and Prison Story Project Writer in Residence and Education Advocacy Director, has won a $50,000 Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship to support public engagement by humanities faculty. This award will allow the Prison...
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....