Inmates and MIT students team up to turn a blank wall into a lasting experience
Johanna Lopez paints a canvas for a two-story mural at the South Bay House of Correction in Boston (photo by Hadley Green for WBUR).
From WBUR:
About a dozen women inmates — and just as many MIT students — have gathered in the activity room at South Bay House of Correction every day for the past few weeks.
“Before all this chaos it was very boring and dull,” says Allison Deshowitz, who has been in South Bay for six months. “And now we’re bringing some light to it.”
Together, the inmates and college students are learning how to turn a small image that Deshowitz and her peers designed into a massive two-story mural. It's a course to teach the group about scenic painting — and a little bit about collaboration along the way.