May 19, 2021 By Carolyn Coons
Portrait of Sarith Peou. Image courtesy of the Weisman Art Museum and We Are All Criminals.
Sarith Peou, an incarcerated artist at Stillwater Prison in Bayport, Minnesota, was in the midst of a collaboration with artist Carl Flink when he contracted COVID-19 last year.
“At one point, I gave up hope that our work would ever see the daylight,” Peou told the National Endowment for the Arts via email.
Peou and Flink’s already limited communications were disrupted by prison lockdowns caused by outbreaks. According to Marshall Project data, Peou’s case is one of 397,422 COVID-19 cases reported among incarcerated people since mass testing in prisons began.
More than $88 Million Distributed to Organizations in All States and Jurisdictions
May 12, 2021
Studio in a School Association is recommended for an FY 2021 Grants for Arts Projects award to create a new visual arts instruction model framed in culturally relevant and multicultural approaches. In this photo, Studio NYC Artist Instructor Leigh Ruple leads a class of second grade students through a reflection on the day’s painting lesson. Photo by Mindy Best
Washington, DC For its second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2021, the National Endowment for the Arts announces more than $88 million in recommended grants to organizations in all 50 states and jurisdictions.
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Myon Burrell, now 34, was just 16 years old when he was convicted of accidentally shooting and killing an 11-year-old girl. He has always maintained his innocence.
Myon Burrell had been prepared to spend the rest of his life in prison for the death of an 11-year-old girl fatally shot with a stray bullet in 2002, until he was released Tuesday shortly after the Minnesota Board of Pardons commuted his sentence. His sentence has been reduced to 20 years, and Burrell, who was just 16 years old at the time of the shooting, will serve the remainder of it on supervised release.
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