prison art

In prison, the culture is life behind bars mixed with ethnic origins. To create art, resources are slim to none. Inmates create with soap, cigarette wrappers, toilet paper, pebbles, toothpicks, soda cans, white bread, and much more.

Paper weaving is a craft practiced not only in prison and other institutions but also as hobo art, and at children's summer camp. Every kind of paper that works - cigarette wrappers, potato chip bags, Little Debbie cake wrappers. Convicts weave paper to make frames, cup holders, jewelry boxes, hand bags, scrap books, crosses, miniature churches and houses.