Artists Everywhere

The Artists Everywhere campaign aims to raise public awareness that there are formerly incarcerated people- now returned citizens- among them who are ready and capable of making an artistic contribution to the community. Through short plays transformed into short films and exhibited as an art installation, these returned citizen writers will explore topics of social justice and community engagement to bring their own experience as artists into the consciousness of their communities. The primary outcome of the campaign is a video art installation for exhibition in multiple spaces and galleries. Social events include talkbacks, discussions, and in-person meetings between the formerly incarcerated artists who craft the project and the general public of the target communities. Leading up to the installation events will be social media and other marketing campaigns in the San Diego area that promote the campaign, share behind-the-scenes images of the “making of” process of the film production, and call people to the in-person events. The campaign aims to raise awareness of the artistic contributions of formerly incarcerated people in the lowest quartile California Healthy Places Index communities in San Diego.