A study guide: Johnny Van Patten
Johnny Van Patten is currently based out of Lansing, Michigan. He is a tattoo artist who also enjoys doing fine art and portraits and works in pencils and acrylic paints. He has shown work at the Broad Museum on MSU campus, PCAP art shows, the Gutman Gallery and various other art shows including the Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair. He does many speaking engagements on behalf of prison art through prisoner creative arts project and citizens for prisoner reform.
Key Sites
Commentaries, Interviews, and Lectures
- Linkage Community Launches as Independent Network for Formerly Incarcerated Artists
- A Prison Art Community On the Power of an Annual Exhibition in Michigan to Support More Than 700 Incarcerated Artists
Academic References
- Alexander, Buzz. "The Evolution of the Prison Creative Arts Project." Journal of Prisoners on Prisons 19, no. 1 (2010): 80-83.
- Krinks, Andrew. White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization. Vol. 16. NYU Press, 2024.
- Story, Brett. Prison land: Mapping carceral power across neoliberal America. U of Minnesota Press, 2019.