Prison art and writings are the new social genre.
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Prison Art Museum & Gallery
In June of 2007, Carol E. Briney was asked to produce and exhibit the First National Prison Art Show. That show was housed in downtown Canton, Ohio, and was comprised of over 650 pieces of tantalizing art from prisoners across America. That show hung for 60 days, and then, at the invitation of the Director of Ohio DRC, traveled to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction’s Best Practices Institute in London, Ohio, where it hung for three more months.
Before the Canton show was taken down, the art was professionally photographed . This historical body of prison artwork continues to grow, and each piece is electronically captured so the collection can be archived and viewed worldwide. We are now offering prints of all of the originals in the gallery. Your purchases support our mission of reducing recidivism.
Art requires an audience. We welcome you and hope you enjoy your tour.
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What is Mushfake?
Mushfake is prison slang for making objects out of cast-off or less-useful materials. The term mushfake is usually applied to art pieces and refers to how they are constructed. Often the art is made of toothpicks, match sticks, Popsicle sticks and carpenter glue – using only sandpaper and nail clippers for tools. Mushfake objects have to be assembled, because of limited storage space inside prisons. Examples of mushfake objects are clocks, motorcycles, vintage trains, eagles, rattle snakes, roses, jewelry boxes, horses pulling stage coaches, and even playable pianos.