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December Issue
2008
UNC Asheville
in Asheville, NC, Features Works by North Carolina Inmates
E Bryant
UNC Asheville in Asheville, NC, will present the exhibit, From the Pen and Pencil, featuring 19 portraits by inmate students, The exhibition will be on view at the Ramsey Library's third floor, outside Special Collections, from Dec. 1-12, 2008.
Since 1998, UNC Asheville has offered college classes at four regional correctional facilities. Inmate students have studied meteorology, psychology, public speaking and art, among other classes. The federally funded program allows inmates to earn college credits and begin building a transcript. To participate, inmates must be 25 years old or younger, within five years of release, have a high school diploma or GED, be able to read at a 10th-grade level, and they must not have committed violent crimes like murder or rape. Some 1,700 inmates have taken classes.
Recently, art instructor Monika Teal taught "Art of Portraiture" at two facilities. Work completed by the students will be on view at UNC Asheville this fall.
"Drawing materials were restricted to graphite and charcoal on paper. In spite of these limitations, the exhibit contains works that reflect the students' imagination, intelligence, creativity, love, sadness and humor. And the works define their particular lives and circumstances," said Elaine Fox, UNC Asheville director of Extension and Distance Education.
For further information
check our NC Institutional Gallery listings or call the Library
at 828/251-6546.
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