Finding Hope Within

Finding Hope Within features art that has emerged through the carceral system in Vermont. The work featured in this exhibition includes drawings, mixed media, poetry, and narrative writing by incarcerated artists at Vermont correctional facilities and includes artwork from individuals detained at Guantanamo Bay. This exhibition posits art making as a transformative, healing, and cathartic practice and highlights the intensely human instinct to create as a way to transform one's relationship to community, to the environment, and to the self. The exhibition challenges common narratives about incarcerated individuals and invites viewers to consider art as something that can transcend physical and psychological barriers.