Criminal justice and the arts Inside Outside Envelope Project

The Inside/Outside Envelope Project
Incarcerated Men and Women Making Art for a Cause
benefits

READ logo
Teens Lead ... Children Read

  • Hundreds of thousands of men and women sit uselessly behind steel doors, a vast resource of untapped human potential. They want to help.
  • Millions of underserved and struggling Americans need help now more than ever.
  • The human spirit has the remarkable ability to propel its light through the most impenetrable barriers we can build.

This is the Inside/Outside Envelope Project

Envelope art is a long-standing tradition in prison art. Beautiful envelopes sent to loved ones communicate a deep connection. The Inside/Outside Envelope Project is expanding that connection out into the human family.

Incarcerated men and women are donating their envelope art to support the Reading Excellence and Discovery (READ) Foundation.

 
United We Stand envelope
Nuts envelope
Nuts envelope

READ logo

Teens Lead ... Children Read

The Reading Excellence and Discovery (READ) Foundation serves at risk kindergarten and first graders by recruiting and training teens to provide structured one-to-one tutoring in reading. While young children achieve reading gains essential to their future success, READ teens develop college, career, and life skills as reading tutors and role models to their younger peers.

For more information visit: www.readnyc.org


If you can help in any way, please contact Phyllis Kornfeld, envelopeartpk@gmail.com

Tax deductible contributions can be sent to:
 A.P.E. Ltd.   
 126 Main St
 Northampton, Ma 01060
(with a memo "For the  Inside/Outside Envelope Project.")

For twenty-six years I've been conducting visual art programs for men and women in prisons and jails throughout the United States. Over and over again I've observed their desire to do good. A recent event, in which they gave their art to be sold to aid a local food bank, was very meaningful to both the incarcerated artists and the outside community. The people behind bars jumped at the chance to join the rest of us in looking out for one another.

Phyllis Kornfeld
October, 2009