The Container: Designing a Creative Atelier at Sing Sing Correctional Facility

Abstract

ABSTRACT A composer and project leader tracks the connections between the needs of incarcerated students and a successful music-making studio program design. Central to the work, and applicable to any art form or educational setting, is the informed predicting of students' potentials and the communities transformation of the meeting place—in this case, a prison classroom—into a container for teaching and learning.