{"id":153501,"date":"2018-02-19T06:10:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T11:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=153501"},"modified":"2018-02-19T06:10:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T11:10:22","slug":"at-museum-current-and-ex-inmates-create-art-and-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/19\/at-museum-current-and-ex-inmates-create-art-and-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"At museum, current and ex inmates create art and futures"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_153502\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153502\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/640px-Barnes_Philly_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-153502\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/640px-Barnes_Philly_1.jpg\" alt=\"The new Barnes Foundation Museum on the Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. (Photo By Smallbones - Own work, CC0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/640px-Barnes_Philly_1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/640px-Barnes_Philly_1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-153502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Barnes Foundation Museum on the Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=20021010\">Photo By Smallbones &#8211; Own work, CC0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8212; The Barnes Foundation and Mural Arts Philadelphia are collaborating on a program where current and former prison inmates will work on public art projects.<\/p>\n<p>They will create panels for a future mural, as well as a body of work that will be exhibited at the museum.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cRestorative Justice\u201d program is seen as a way to unite those affected by crime through shared creative expression, like street murals.<\/p>\n<p>The Barnes has transformed its former ticketing office into a studio space for workers in a Mural Arts&#8217; program called \u201cThe Guild.\u201d It&#8217;s a paid apprenticeship for formerly incarcerated men and women.<\/p>\n<p>The Barnes is also teaching art history classes to inmates at the state prison in Graterford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8212; The Barnes Foundation and Mural Arts Philadelphia are collaborating on a program where current and former prison inmates &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":153502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46949,3337,46950],"class_list":["post-153501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art-and-culture","tag-barnes-foundation-and-mural-arts-philadelphia","tag-museum","tag-restorative-justice","mauthors-kristen-de-groot","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}