Prison Pen and Paint: High Walls Will Break Down Barriers at RedLine

[Max Stager]

Prison Pen and Paint: High Walls Will Break Down Barriers at RedLine
"From the beginning, we didn't want it to be just an art show, but a series of events and programs giving deeper insight into the ring of issues around the space of incarceration."
By Teague Bohlen August 8, 2025

High Walls: Artists Navigate Structures of Confinement, opening at RedLine Contemporary Art Center on August 15, is billed as an exploration of "how physical and imagined space shapes the carceral system in Colorado and beyond." But it's so much more.

The High Walls exhibit, which will run for two months, showcases work by artists engaging with or responding to the many aspects of the prison experience. It emerges from a national conversation around mass incarceration and the U.S. criminal-legal system, and highlights the work of artists who are currently or were formerly incarcerated in the Colorado Department of Corrections, including Cedar Annenkovna, Dustin Ware and Sean Marshall, a largely self-taught artist whose sentence was commuted last year. . . .

https://www.westword.com/arts/colorado-prison-art-in-high-walls-exhibit-at-redline-25220856