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about 9 months ago (02/11/2024)
How Paño Arte Becomes Artepaño Skip to content Unidentified artist, “SanAnto” (date unknown), ink on cotton, 15 x 15 inches (all photos by Reno Leplat-Torti, courtesy the Reno-Leplat-Torti Collection) If paño arte is the private-facing practice of artists serving time in penitentiaries across the United States, then artepaño encompasses the afterlife of the artifact...
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about 9 months ago (02/08/2024)
The Private Life of Paño Arte Skip to content Unrecorded artist, “Deana” (date unknown), ink and colored pencil on cotton, 15 x 15 inches (all photos by Reno Leplat-Torti, courtesy the Reno-Leplat-Torti Collection) I first encountered paño arte , intricate ink or pencil drawings on handkerchiefs created by incarcerated Chicanos, as a boy in south Texas...
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about 11 months ago (12/10/2023)
Next to a Keith Haring Mural, Original Artworks by Rikers Detainees Skip to content Installation view of Creating Within: Art from Rikers and the NYC Health + Hospitals Art Collection at NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull, with Keith Haring's 1986 mural above (photo Aaron Short/ Hyperallergic ; all other photos by Samuel Rodriguez/New York City Health + Hospitals) Some of New York’s most interesting artists happen to be creating work outside the traditional art world — and inside the city’s correctional system...