Arts in Corrections NYS

Workshops

- Drawing and Art History

- About this workshop

- Hear from participants

- About the facilitators

- Exploring the Abstract

- Framing Freedom

- Mixed-Level Poetry

- Moving Potential

- Multimedia Visual Storytelling

- Music Video Production

- One Mic Project

- Personal Storytelling

- Self Portraiture

Grantee Organizations

Facilitating Artists

Participating Artists

Arts in Corrections NYS

Workshops

- Drawing and Art History

- About this workshop

- Hear from participants

- About the facilitators

- Exploring the Abstract

- Framing Freedom

- Mixed-Level Poetry

- Moving Potential

- Multimedia Visual Storytelling

- Music Video Production

- One Mic Project

- Personal Storytelling

- Self Portraiture

Grantee Organizations

Facilitating Artists

Participating Artists

A watecolor painting on paper depicting the text

An impressionistic watercolor of iris-like flowers, made with strong lines and light shading in violet tones. The pistols and stamens are well defined, with yolk-colored pollen also visible. Splotches of pale yellow purple are dotted around the negative space. It is signed by the artist.

A pen drawing of a female figure partly submerged in water, seen from above, The water swirls around her with abstracted lines, her face, hands, and toes are above the surface. These elements float in negative space.

An ink drawing in black and white, with graphic lettering that reads

An ink drawing with graphic text reading

An ink drawing with large graphic text that reads

A bright, colorful ink and colored pencil drawing of an urban street. A grotty brick building with a large

An allegorical image in ink and colored pencil showing a hanged figure. The figure's head is the earth, its hair is an oil spill. There are various symbols of ecological problem factors, like a gasoline can, plastics, an oil barrel, and a bottle of pesticide, that form the rest of its body.

A well rendered drawing of a dragon, facing out from the image, straddling two rocky mountain peaks. It has gold scales and white spines. It's flaring its wings, which have a pink, veiny underside. It's tongue is out and it glares threateningly.

A drawing of various unidentifiable wildflowers and butterflies at an unusually large scale, or possibly from worm's-eye view, against low clouds.

Poem reading: The beauty once housed in a silken cocoon / Now graciously floats to its very own tune / a butterfly's journey is without care or fear / for innocence and nature leads them through the year / As I watch them draw near / I see breathtaking beauty / and thank God for the creature / not fantastical, but truly... / fly, dear one, for you have shown me / how I can soar after having once been confined

Seven abstract blobs in muted tones of purple, brown, and rust. Some evoke animal bodies and faces or bacteria, some are just splotches of color. Most of the white sheet is blank.

A handwritten prose poem, reading:

Handwritten text that reads

A whimsical colored pencil drawing depicting the entrance to Six Flags. Colorful streams are on either side of a central turnstile, and signs reading

A drawing of a girl in the foreground, facing out from the page and smiling, in a small room. A mirror is behind her, the mirror shows the body of a man at an open doorway, but not his face. Behind the mirror are family photographs hung on the wall, one of which is marked

A typewritten poem that reads:

Typewritten text of a prose poem entitled

A watercolor painting of a suburban cul de sac from a low bird's eye perspective. The painting is entirely shades of blue. Two neat, small houses are at the end of the road. Both have yards and plants outside.

A cartoonish drawing of a persin with large muscles, wearing a red t-shirt, green pants, black boots, and a brown weight-lifting belt, who is lifting a barbell with weights enscribed with motivational phrases. The word

A handwritten reproduction of a prose poem by Kristian Hansen.

An abstract image of two men sitting down inside cubes floating in space. All of this is depicted in shades of blue. Cartoonish planets, stars, and other elements of space like galaxies, in tones of yellow and green, also float in the picture plane.

Two rows of rectangular cells without bars are stack on top of one another, seen from the front and below. They slant toward the bottom right of the page. There is a seated figure in each cell. The entire image is in tones of blue, with the exception of a bright yellow sun in the top right corner. Two birds are depicted flying in the distance.

A cartoonish pencil drawing of three alien beings. Two beings are speaking an unkown language. They are on a beach, with an alien cradft in the water in the background. A sailing boat is also in the water. A huge sun is in the middle of the drawing above the horizon.

A cartoon-style drawing of a white woman's face and hair. She gazes out toward the viewer. She has full lips and a determined look. She wears a tiara and a jewel at her forehead, there is stained glass in the background. Her brown hair is full, falling in waves around her face. Only part of this image can be seen, as if looking at it through a window shaped like a lightning bolt.

A cartoon showing the Nintendo characters Mario, Luigi, Wario, and Yoshi.

A portrait of a young man of color, shown as a bust. He has large muscles. He's wearing a striped shirt with a Yoda emblem on the left breast, and a pocket protector with drawing supplies on the right. He has a tight beard and lined up crew cut.

An abstract watercolor painting of what might be a sunset over a body of water. The central globe shape is canary yellow, with squiggly horizontal lines in dark blue at the bottom of the page, and lighter blue at the top. Pink lines also traverse the

A handwritten poem in blue pen, that reads:

A pencil drawing of a coast guard boat about to board a dinghy. The dinghy is overcrowded, and is entitled Dreams of Freedom. The two boats are in a body of water in a city. There are tall buildings and an American flag flying immediately ashore.

A collage that looks like a greeting card. A teddy bear in a prison's outfit is in the center. It wears a ball and chain, and has a pink heart on its shirt. It carries a rose. Photographs of orchids are collaged into two corners. There is a pink border around the image. It has text that reads

A collage that looks like a greeting card. A teddy bear is in the center, clutching an oversized cartoon heart. Two small hearts are to its sides. A multicolored floral border encloses the image. It says

A pencil drawing of a city street, in forced perspective. The viewer looks at a corner, with a street heading to the left and right. A church-like building is in the immediate foreground, with other, office-type buildings filling the rest of the blocks.

An impressionistic drawing made with colored pencil of a pale yellow daisy-like flower being visited by a butterfly whose wings are in muted tones of brown, maroon, and navy blue. A variegated color field occupies the background.

A colored pencil drawing of a peaceful country scene. There is a road beginning in the foreground and continuing into the middle ground with an unseen terminus. Fanciful trees are in the middle distance in front of a series of hills. A low brick wall has small colonnades on either side of the road. Some tulip-like flowers are in front of the wall.

A colorful drawing of two figures and the text

A drawing in bold colors of a girl wearing a bright blue smock over a firetruck red t-shirt, with a wide-brimmed hat of the same blue. Her skin is inky black and her hair is nearly completely black also. The text

A cartoon of a puppy with a comically long tongue, white fur, and fanciful Valentines-Day-style hearts covering its body.

A colored pencil drawing in soft tones, of a young black woman wearing a lime green bodysuit and a matching headband, sitting on a pink couch with fancy cushions. An ornate vase with a large red flower is to her right, and a low table with a small lamp is on her left. A rectangle of negative space frames her head.

A realistic colored pencil drawing of a terra cotta flower pot containing a plant with small, powder pink fowrs. The pot is in the foreground of a room with blue walls. The room has a large window in the upper left, through which the viewer can see a path through grass that leads to a small house in the distance, underneath some trees.

A colored pencil drawing of bridge or dock. The vantage is from the middle of the decking, there are low rails on either side with dramatic forced perspective leading to its edge. There is a summertime sky overhead, a body of water in the middle distance, and a forested shore opposite.

A fantastical colored pencil drawing, depicting a beach at sunset. There is a tree on the foreground on the right whose bark contains white swirls. Only some of the tree trunk is visible, and one broken branch at middle height. A blue songbird, drawn with a high degree of verisimilitude, is perched on the broken branch.

A fanciful colored pencil drawing that shows two human figures dancing and an oversized butterfly. The woman on the left wears a semi-translucent lime green dress, her arms are up. She stands on a cliff with some grasses to her left. The man on the right is standing on one foot, with his other leg bent and his arms above his head. He is also on a cliff. Between them is the enormous butterfly. The background contains an ocean, and a sky that is drawn in blues and purples.

A colored pencil drawing of a young black man playing an electric guitar. He wears black pants and a red button-down shirt. He sits on a low cushioned stool, on a red and white checked floor. Behind him are fantastical geometric areas of pure color.

A colored pencil drawing of a momma bear and her cub. The animals are in the foreground, standing in the center of a dirt road with glass on either side and some trees to the left. The road ends in a T in the middle distance. There is a building with horizontal siding and some trash cans out front on the left. On the right, there is a large elevated sign that reads

A colored pencil drawing of the artist's mother sitting crosslegged on a beach. In the foreground are her glasses, an oversized book, and a large human skull, half buried in the sand. There are small rocks throughout the beach. There is water beyond the shore and a clear sky overhead. In the distance, across the water, is a spit of land with tall grasses and trees.

A colored pencil drawing of two butterflies each visiting a flower. The colors are non representational: one butterfly has indigo wings with pink accents, the other has purple wings with maroon accents. There are pink clouds and a purple sun in the background. One flower is pink with one stalk and two leaves emerging from the ground. One flower is purple, it is on one stalk with two opposite leaves.

A young African American boy sits on a mattress in a jail cell. There are bars in the foreground, and a cracked cement block wall behind him. His shadow is larger than life, suggesting a full grown man's shadow.

A cartoon about prison food entitled

A colored pencil drawing of a tranquil lake scene. A white canoe is in the foreground, in a placid body of water. There are reeds at the grassy bank. A small mountain is in the distance, with a forest in the middle ground.

A still life colored pencil drawing of an apple and an orange on a table. The table is made of thick wood, with metal legs. The walls are mottled blue and green, the floor is teal and white check.

A cartoon of the comic book monster The Incredible Hulk, who has burst through a cement block wall and glowers at the viewer. His right hand is about to be clenched into a fist and his pants are torn.

A colored pencil drawing with unrealistic perspective, of two ladderback chairs and a small rug is inside a room with the exterior door open in the background. The angels are skewed. Outside there is a wooden porch, with a dirt road leading to it from a field, with grass on either side. The door is yellow. The room evokes a cabin or other simple dwelling.

A colored pencil drawing of a man of color playing the trumpet outdoors. He is wearing a brown shirt, pale yellow pants, and loafers. His hair and beard are short. The colors elsewhere are nonrepresentational. The brick wall he leans against is rainbow hued. An orange and yellow color field seems to suggest a road. Mountains and grasses in the distance are realistic, but the sky is partly blue and partly yellow. The man stands on an abstract, African-inflected pattern that suggests a tiled floor.

A colored pencil drawing of a man and woman embracing. The man faces the viewer. Their skin is rich, inky black, with no details or features included. Both figures wear head coverings.

A colored pencil drawing of a man playing the trumpet with three dancing figures in the background. The image is colorful but the man's face, hands, and the mouthpiece of the trumpet show white space and pencil marks. The three dancers are in colorful, loose clothing. A man and woman hold raised hands and are in modern dance postures. A woman kneels alone with one hand raised on a teal and white check floor.

A portrait of a young man and woman in pencil. They are young, possibly African American. They are attractive: the man has a medium length afro and beard, the woman wears her hair in box braids. They are side by side and drawn from the shoulders up.

A colored pencil drawing of a woman of color carrying a child inside her garment. She wears a canary yellow head covering and a brown cardigan with a rust-colored shawl. The child and the woman are touching their cheeks together. An abstract background is drawn as a gradient from dark green at the bottom, through yellow, to pale blue at the top.

A colored pencil drawing of a small lighthouse on a rocky promontory. The landscape also contains grasses and a part of one tree, on the righthand side. Most of the picture contains still water, but there are low mountains in the distance under a hazy afternoon sky.

A vibrant colored pencil drawing of a tropical beach at sunset. The landscape is mostly water, with a small sand beach in the lower right. Three palm trees grow nearby some large rocks in the middle distance. Beyond them are some low hills and a setting sun. The very edge of the sky is empurpled at the upper left.

A fantastical landscape in colored pencil. Seemingly a bayou or delta, a tree that looks subtropical grows from a small spit of land surrounded by water. Some larges rocks and a grassy plain are on the opposite shore. The sun is setting, low on the horizon in a sky of pale yellows fading to dark red.

A colored pencil drawing in realistic style, depicting butterflies and flowers that do not actually exist. The perspective is from the ground, the subjects are large on the page. One butterfly has mottled wings like stained glass, one has wings with a gradient of brown to yellow to orange replacing its pattern, one has a pattern of tan, maroon, and black. The flowers evoke a tulip, a daisy, and a nondescript red flower, but the petals and foliage are all slightly wrong. There is some ivy in the top left.

A pencil drawing of a young woman seen from the shoulders up. Her head is tilted slightly up, she wears a white shirt buttoned to the neck. There is one butterfly wing, similar to a monarch's wing pattern, covering each of her eyes, and one on each side of her neck.

A colored pencil drawing of a structure with firetruck red cladding that may be a house or may be a barn. There is a window on the second floor with a crane-like tool hanging out. There are two chimneys and a satellite dish on the roof. The perspective is superflat. There is a yard and stone path in the middle ground, as well as a small plot of tulips and an above-ground pool. A wooden fence with an open gate occupies the foreground.

A pencil drawing of a two-story stucco residential building. There are cracks in the stucco, and curtains in the three windows. The perspective is superflat. A set of four stairs leads to a small door on the right, and a garage door is on the left. A satellite dish, antennae, and a chimney are on the roof. There is a dog house at an unusually large scale on the left, with the text

A superflat colored pencil drawing of a house with wooden siding. There is a door to the left and in the center, with a garage door on the right. The garage is partly open to reveal the back of a car. There are two satellite dishes, a chimney, and an antennae on the roof. There is a celestial body above that is circular, half white and half black. There are three windows with curtains, and a blue mailbox. Some birds fly above the house.

A drawing of a modernist house and a pool seen from above. The house has a shed-style roof and is one story. A door with the number 661 is on the right. Two long, low windows reveal a dining table with two chairs on the right, and a bed and some houseplants on the left. There is a dying tree with a large spider at left. The pool's tiles have letters that read

A four-panel drawing depicting a farming scene. A horse and a cow eat hay in an enclosed field in the leftmost panel. The panel in the middle left shows row crops being irrigated from overhead, with a mountain in the background. The middle right panel shows a house, with a telephone pole and a tractor to either side. The rightmost panel shows a granary and other farm buildings.

Drawing (detail) by Blazej Kot, Sullivan C.F., 2024