Artist Corita Kent once said that flowers grow out of dark moments

Art Business News, Jan, 2004

Artist Corita Kent once said that flowers grow out of dark moments. The Fortune Society--an ex-prisoner service and advocacy organization--tried to gather some of those flowers recently when it presented "Insider Art: The Ultimate In Outsider Art," a prisoner art show at the National Arcs Club.

Conceived and developed by The Fortune Society, the show, which ran from Dec. 4 to 22, featured artwork submitted from nearly 200 prisoners representing more than 20 prisons around the nation. The show was curated by Tim Nye, founder of Thread Waxing Space, a New York-based art gallery and performance space, and a member of the New Technology Committee of the Whitney Museum of American Art, with Lia Gangitano and Miguel Abreu.