Grantee Database
INSIGHT GARDEN PROGRAM
Grant Year
2024-25
Grant Program
Impact Projects
Award Amount
$17,943.00
Project Description
The Avenal State Prison (ASP) Mural Arts Project will engage 60 incarcerated individuals at ASP during a four-month collaborative mural creation, led by Fresno-based artist James Graham. This project aims to support social, racial, and environmental justice messaging and storytelling within the prison. Participants will brainstorm themes, design individual pieces, and collaboratively create a vibrant mural on a 40-foot wall bordering the prison garden, transforming a sterile concrete wall into a meaningful and inclusive environment for all incarcerated individuals to enjoy. The project provides an empowering platform for creative self-expression while fostering a sense of community and belonging. By involving participants at every stage and showcasing their work, the mural will enhance the prison environment and inspire future collaborative art projects, contributing to the healing and uplifting of the incarcerated community at ASP.
Organization Summary
Land Together’s staff and volunteers facilitate a yearlong therapeutic, arts and nature-based curriculum rooted in a holistic approach that integrates the arts and environmental sciences, and tends to both the “inner” and “outer” artist/gardener.
Our “inner gardener” classes integrate transformational tools such as meditation, emotional process work and ecotherapy. In flower and vegetable gardens, people practice “outer gardening,” where our diverse class participants also learn the basics of organic gardening, human/ecological systems and useful work and life skills.
Organization
Land Together
Address
2081 Center Street
Berkeley
94704
County
Alameda
Region
Bay Area – Other
Phone
(415) 854-0067
Congressional District
California's 13th congressional district
State Assembly District
District 15
State Senate District
District 9
