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🩸💧✨On view November 25, 2025 – January 30, 2026Opening Reception: Saturday, December 6 | 2–4 p.m.Losinski Gallery, 2nd Floor – Columbus Metropolitan Library, Main Branch Artists from the Returning Artists Guild (RAG) invite you to witness the emotional and creative labor of imagining a world beyond punishment and incarceration. Imagining Abolition: Blood, Sweat, and Tears honors the artistsContinue reading “Imagining Abolition: Blood, Sweat, and Tears”

Presented in partnership with The University of Akron’s Institute for Human Science & Culture On view now through Spring 2026Opening Reception: Friday, December 5, 2025 | Free + open to the publicRegister to attend → Home Free: Ohio Artists Envision Prison Abolition brings together the voices of artists directly impacted by incarceration, each using their creativeContinue reading “Home Free: Ohio Artists Envision Prison Abolition”

This September, the Returning Artists Guild (RAG) had the honor of serving as a community partner for the Inthrive Film Festival, a national event celebrating the creativity and resilience of artists who have survived incarceration. The festival features films made by directly impacted artists from across the country—stories that challenge stereotypes, amplify truth, and show the transformative powerContinue reading “RAG x Inthrive Film Festival: Art, Freedom, and the Power of Story”

What happens when six men—wrongfully convicted, caged for decades, and now free—step onto the stage to tell their own stories? They turn pain into power. They turn theater into revolution.This is The Lynched Among Us, a searing, soul-stirring play produced by Voices of Injustice, where real-life exonerees take center stage to expose the truth of wrongful convictions,Continue reading “🎭 VOICES OF INJUSTICE presents: THE LYNCHED AMONG US🔥 Live in Cincinnati | September 5, 2025 | Playhouse Square”

This August, 15+ artists who’ve survived incarceration are heading to Saint Simons Island, Georgia — to rest, create, and vision abolition together. We’ve secured a beautiful home.We’re covering flights, food, and programming.But we need your help to close the gap. 🎯 We’re raising $5,000 to fully fund this retreat.📅 August 4–9, 2025📍 Saint Simons Island,Continue reading “Send RAG to the Shore 🌊🎨”

That’s how much Off the Lake Productions raised for The Returning Artists Guild this year—and it’s more than just a number. This is what it looks like when young artists use their voice, their craft, their stage—to build the world they believe in. Thank you to the passionate student artists of Off the Lake atContinue reading “$3,545.62.”

Was On View January 23 – March 20, 2025 at the McConnell Arts Center This exhibit, currently on tour, will make its next stop at the University of Akron. Home Free: Ohio Artists Envision Prison Abolition explores the conditions, creative expression, and aesthetic practices of Ohio artists directly impacted by the criminal legal system and whoContinue reading “Home Free: Ohio Artists Envision Prison Abolition”

https://lemonadamedia.com/show/calldeclined/ Many wonderful people helped make and inform the Call Declined podcast. In this special bonus episode, we hear from three people who are very important in the stories of Aimee’s and Kamisha’s lives–their parents. Through our conversations across generations we hear echoes of trauma, abuse, and incarceration. And we see a system that tooContinue reading “Call Declined”