Work 2 Give: Fostering Collective Citizenship through Artistic and Healing Spaces for Indigenous Inmates and Communities in British Columbia

Work 2 Give: Fostering Collective Citizenship through Artistic and Healing Spaces for Indigenous Inmates and Communities in British Columbia

Authors: Helen Brown & Kelsey Timler 

Published in BC Studies in July 2019

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Therapeutic arts and crafts, as healing modalities, exist within specific historic and contemporary contexts. In this article, we examine the positioning of productive and social citizenship for incarcerated Aboriginal men in federal prisons in BC who participate in a prison employment and hobby program, wherein they build and create art-full objects that are donated to Aboriginal communities.