We are a program of the LSA Residential College. The mission of PCAP is to bring "those impacted by the justice system together with the University of Michigan community for artistic collaboration, mutual learning, and growth. Janie Paul and Buzz Alexander founded PCAP in 1990, with the Art Exhibit debuting in 1996. "Three hundred sixty unique artists inside 25 Michigan prisons are collaborating with the University of Michigan's Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), to showcase 645 pieces of art including paintings, three-dimensional creations and drawings….This exposition is the world's largest display of its kind, where underground art meets academic exhibition." The PCAP project and the annual exhibition are a testament to the incarcerated artist's determination and creativity and the collaboration between the University of Michigan community and imprisoned people in Michigan prisons. It is as mind-blowing and universe-expanding as prisons are devastating, violent, and parasitic.
I have seen this exhibition in a previous incarnation before COVID-19. This year the exhibit runs from March 24 – April 4, 2023. Chris Levitt's "The Weight of Time", 2022, courtesy of the organizersįor the last quarter of a century, plus another year, the Prison Creative Arts Project ( PCAP), out of the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, has organized an Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan prisons.
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