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Monday, August 31, 2009
Alabama Prison Arts Program Receives Fourth Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
AUBURN, AL. (Sept 1, 2009) - The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project, in the Department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University, received $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts as part of the federal stimulus funds to support artists affected by the current economic situation.
APAEP will use the funds to support artists teaching classes in Alabama prisons, such as Staton Correctional Facility north of Montgomery and Donaldson Correctional Facility northwest of Birmingham, as well as an artist internship in arts administration and community engagement through the arts.
The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project offers classes in the arts and humanities to incarcerated people in Alabama, and has done so since 2002. APAEP believes that arts and humanities education opportunities provide a foundation for significant human development and that this opportunity is greatly needed for individuals in Alabama's prisons.
"These funds benefit artists as well as the individuals who take APAEP classes," says Kyes Stevens of the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project. "Doing the right thing is never a one- way street, all parties involved grow as artists, but also as people."
APAEP is a program of the Department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University. For more information on the program, visit www.auburn.edu/apaep .
Alabama Arts and Education Project
226 Thach Hall
Auburn, University, AL 36849-5214
Contact: Kyes Stevens
334-844-8946 (office)
334-703-6854 (cell)
334-844-4447 (fax)