"Art inside" It opens at the Birmingham Public Library – Blogger.com

The Birmingham Public Library is excited to partner with the Alabama Prison Education Project to present Art insideA collection of new works of artists who participated in Apaep classes. The exhibition will be viewed in the gallery on the first floor of the Central Library until April 25.

Art inside Characteristics works in a media array, including watercolor, pencil, pastel, collage with mixed media and handmade paper. The biggest job in the show is the attention-drawing cooperation among Apaep artists, the nationally famous artist Tameka Cole and the New Orleans-based Brendon Palmer-English. The present exhibition marks the disclosure of the mural that is entitled Do you see you?

Based at the University of Pravn, the Alabama Prison Education Project + Education is working to create spaces where currently and previously deprived of the arts can practice significant engagement with the arts and develop their own artistic votes. Based on the knowledge that creativity is an essential feature of humanity, the program has grown from a poet who teaches a class in one facility to hundreds of classes that have reached thousands of students in over 12 facilities. The APAEP community cultivates inclusive, students -oriented space for creativity, exploration and lifelong relationships with learning.

Years ago, Apaep exhibited works of art at Jule Collins Smithmuseum from Fine Arts in Obun; Montgomery Alabama State Council; Artspace Gallery of the Persian Gulf in FairHope; Salt Space NYC and the State University of New York; The University of St. Louis in Missouri; and the Mass Impression Conference at the University of Mississippi. For more information about the Alabama Prison Education Project, please visit Apaep.auburn.edu.

BPL would like to thank the artists presented; Robert Hit from Apaep who cure Art inside for BPL; And Terry Beckham, who, with his many years of professional experience in designing art shows, installs this special exhibition. Art inside is part of BPL Art for all

A series that has become possible with a grant awarded to BPL Friends Foundation [friendsofthebpl.org]

by the State Council of Arts in Alabama.

By Margaret Solder, Library Assistant III