Create: New Beginnings Restoring Lives Through Art in Prison
“Sometimes they don't even know what they've been feeling until we ask them to express it somehow.”
—Stephanie
When Los Angeles artist Stephanie Segel steps behind prison bars for a project, all paint brushes and art pens are labeled; each bottle of paint is accounted for. When she leaves, all supplies return with her. It's standard prison safety protocol: What goes in must go back out.
Convicted women carry a lot into prison, too. Guilt. Shame. Destructive habits. Wounds of abuse. But what if people didn't have to leave prison with all the emotional and spiritual baggage with which they entered? What if these could be let go for good?
For the past four years, Create: New Beginnings®—designed by women for women—has been turning dull prison rooms into places of beauty and life transformation. This program has the potential to impact women outside of prison as well, which is why Prison Fellowship partnered with Tyndale House Publishers to make Create: New Beginnings available to women across the country as a book. Order the book today for yourself or someone you love!
