An exploration of socially engaged artmaking and the importance of creativity inside prisons with renowned American artist Mark Bradford.

In 2016, the artist Mark Bradford began a partnership with the cooperative Rio Terà dei Pensieri, an organization that creates work opportunities with and for people incarcerated and recently incarcerated in two prisons in Venice, Italy. The ongoing project, Process Collettivo, builds on Rio Terà’s existing structure, raising awareness about its work through a storefront that sells goods made by the collective—providing funding for the nonprofit—and offers both resources and employment for the previously incarcerated.

Interviewee(s): Mark Bradford
Introduction by: Liri Longo
Text by: Asale Angel-Ajani, Elisabetta Grande, Mitchell S. Jackson, Jessica Lynne