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ART THERAPY

ART’s purpose is to engage participation. It activates, stimulates, educates, agitates,
delights, promotes, prevents, provides options, intervenes, inspires, transforms, crosses

cultures, honours traditions, unites, entertains, and heals in safe, accessible, and relevant ways.

Art becomes the great equalizer, humanizing those that have been previously dehumanized.
Only when someone creates are they recognized as being alive. Art breaches the walls,

providing a message to those outside.

Specifically, art therapy allows the inmate to express him or herself in a manner

acceptable to both inside the prison and the outside culture. By including Art as therapy in the

model prison project, we hope to evoke humanity in most people not just inside the prison but
on the outside too.

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