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America Scores Cleveland Strengthens Connection Between Athleticism and Poetry
Friday’s 30-minute livestream, Inspired Art, is a culmination of ten months of hard work between area artists and youth poet-athletes.
As the executive director of America Scores Cleveland, Debi Pence-Meyenberg spends most of her workday teaching poet-athletes as part of the nonprofit’s mission to inspire inner city youth to lead active and creative lives while improving literacy and communication skills. This Friday at 7 p.m., the rest of Cleveland will get to see the work of those poet-athletes with America Scores Cleveland’s Inspired Art, a livestream fundraiser done in collaboration with more than 50 local artists.
A poster project creates an opportunity for artists leaving incarceration.
Amanda Page
When Aimee Wissman was released from prison, she wanted to build a life as a visual artist but didn’t know where to start. “I had no jumping-off point,” she says.
She began volunteering with the Ohio Prison Arts Connection, which exists “at the intersection of the arts and the justice system,” says Jessie Glover, lead facilitator for OPAC, a coalition that pushes for arts access for people in prison and after their release.
Reentry from prison poses a host of problems, and resources can be scarce. Finding suitable housing, transportation and a job that pays a living wage can be overwhelming tasks. Making art can provide solace and possibly a career, if “returning artists a term advocates often use in place of “formerly incarcerated,” which carries stigma find the means, mentorship and money to make and sell their creations.