Maryland: Workshops with Incarcerated Youth & Adults

student’s work: poetry and painting project, Baltimore

In 2011-12, Joel led five series of art workshops in juvenile detention centers, adult jails, and in a center for court-involved youth through the Class Acts Arts organization in Maryland. These projects give participants the opportunity to learn skills, collaborate with their peers, and focus their energy on positive creative activities. They created their own personal works of art as well as collaborative murals. While working with this population can be challenging, Joel finds it very rewarding and calls upon his many years of experience as a counselor for teenagers with difficult life situations, including sexual abuse, extreme violence, drugs and suicide.

Maryland, 2011: Mural designed and painted by the inmates a the Noyes juvenile detention center in Maryland. With Class Acts Art

student’s work in Baltimore: poetry and painting project

Baltimore, Maryland, 2012: Art and poetry project with incarcerated youth. With Class Acts Art

mural created by juvenile inmates to be installed in a children’s library inspired by “Where the Wild Things Are”

Baltimore, Maryland, 2012: Art and poetry project with incarcerated youth. With Class Acts Art

Baltimore, Maryland, 2012: Art and poetry project with incarcerated youth. With Class Acts Art