Phyllis Kornfeld: An Interview

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2002 | 01:01:04 | United States | English | Color | Mono | 4:3 | Video

Collection: Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles

Tags: Artist Spaces, Incarceration, Interview, Politics, VDB Interviews, Visiting Artists Program

In this interview, Phyllis Kornfeld, author of Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America, describes her initial interest in working with prisoners in her native Oklahoma City, stemmed from an exploration of outsider artists. Detailing her first visit to a high security prison as a ‘mind blowing and breathtaking’ experience, Kornfeld discusses how she came to her realization that prisons are fertile environments for free form experimentation with the teaching process. She learned that through personalized art education, inmates could teach themselves to make positive contributions to society. - Kyle Riley

Interview conducted by Michael Piattza in April 2002, edited in 2013.

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