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    I don't believe for a second that they didn't know and planned it for that date because of it. Just another way of getting attention. However, the backlash must have been too much, especially since they have not rescheduled it.
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    Artists fulfill the dreams of death row inmates

    Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, Tennessee, currently houses 79 people on death row. This summer, a group of artists made weekly visits to the prison to collaborate with the inmates. Unit 2 (part 1), named for the part of the prison where the inmates are held, is an exhibition displaying the first results of that collaboration.

    The exhibited works mostly fall into two categories: "add-ons" and "surrogates." Add-ons are works that have been handed back and forth between artist and inmate over the course of the summer, modifying or adding to the drawing or painting with each exchange. The surrogate projects are perhaps more interesting, at least from a conceptual standpoint. The inmates — who have been on death row for up to 35 years — asked the artists to experience things on their behalf that are impossible within the confines of their imprisonment.

    "[These men] are more than the sum of their worst day."

    In one case, a condemned man asked the artist to go out at night and gaze upon the stars. The artist took a photograph on the view, which the prisoner hadn't seen for 25 years, before it was inscribed by the inmate. "It has been 25 years since I have seen the stars in the open sky," the inscription reads. Unit 2 (part 1), as the name suggests, is just the first in what will be a series of exhibitions. "Although they may have done a terrible thing, [these men] are more than the sum of their worst day," co-organizer Robin Paris tells Hyperallergic, "they have taught us so much about community and about the importance of many things we might take for granted."

    http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/17/47...inmates-dreams
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    From San Quentin's Death Row, A Gift For Life

    In June, I visited one of the most notorious prisons in the United States, San Quentin State Prison near San Francisco, CA CA +0.23%. It was there that I met with Death Row inmate and artist William A. Noguera. Noguera, now 49, was charged with murder in December 1983 and later sentenced to death in 1987. He has been on San Quentin’s death row since he was 23 years old.

    I passed through main security and entered the grounds of San Quentin accompanied by Melissa [last name withheld], long time friend and confidant of Noguera’s. I looked up at the gun towers as I walked up a small hill toward the prison and approached a large heavy steel door that unlocked as I tugged at it for the third time. Once inside we showed our identification to a prison guard behind heavy glass and then we went through another steel door into a large open room filled with twenty 8′ x 4′ cages arranged in a U-shape. Visitation with Death Row inmates takes place in these cages and I was locked in cage C-13 with Noguera to talk about his life, his art and his upcoming donation of two pieces of art which will be sold for the 5th Annual Avon Walk For Breast Cancer: San Francisco – San Quentin C.A.R.E.S.(Compassionate Accountability Remorsefully Expressed through community Service. After a quarter century in San Quentin, here was a man who has honed his artistic talents and, more recently, has offered those talents to help raise needed money to save the lives of those affected by breast cancer.

    Avon Walk events are scheduled all around the country and the one in San Francisco will take participants across the Golden Gate Bridge and along the Sausalito waterfront. They will see Fisherman’s Wharf and Lombard Street and get an up-close view of the city’s cable cars and gorgeous Victorian homes. However, not all of those who want to participate in the fund raising walk will be allowed to enjoy the scenic route because they are incarcerated at San Quentin. For the general population of inmates at San Quentin, a walk within the prison walls with volunteers was organized to help raise money and allow inmates to give back through the program San Quentin C.A.R.E.S. The goal this year is to raise $12,000 for the cause, which will go toward costs of care and treatment for breast cancer patients. According to Avon Walk for Breast Cancer’s website, $5,000 covers the cost of a surgical breast biopsy for an uninsured patient and $1,000 helps a patient receive blood work to determine the best course of treatment for their particular breast cancer. The money goes a long way in saving lives.

    Death Row inmates have no way of participating in any activities related to San Quentin C.A.R.E.S. because they are even further isolated and restricted than the general population of inmates. That has not stopped Noguera from finding ways to use his art to give back. He told me, ”Since 1998, I’ve given to different charity causes. An officer in the prison told me that I may be able to participate in the program. So that’s when I decided to discuss the charity project with Melissa and I suggested since I can’t participate in the walk, that instead I create two specific pieces for this charity.”

    The William A. Noguera Trust will offer these two pieces for sale to a collector of fine art with 100% of the proceeds donated directly to the Avon Walk For Breast Cancer: San Francisco – San Quentin C.A.R.E.S. charity. Other pieces created by Noguera in the past have previously sold for $6,000-$12,000, making his contribution a significant part of San Quentin’s goal. Currently, William A. Noguera original artwork pieces and/or reproductions are not for sale. However, you can visit his website www.WilliamNogueraArt.com for updates on his works available for viewing, updates of shows, exhibits and events, as well as when these fine art original pieces and/or reproductions may be available for sale in the future. To make an offer (asking for donation of $6,000 for each) on the pieces for the Avon Walk For Breast Cancer, send an email to Info@WilliamNogueraArt.com and they will coordinate the contribution by putting the person in direct contact with the charity to accept the donation. Once the donation is confirmed, the art will be delivered. Again, all funds donated for Noguera’s art are made directly to Avon Walk For Breast Cancer.

    Death Row inmates are allowed to give donations, and some of them do through the accounts they use for their commissary needs. The California Department of Corrections does not have any rehabilitative programs on San Quentin’s Death Row, so it’s encouraging that a few have found some way, even in a small way, to give back to society. For his part, over the past 25 years, Noguera has chosen to rehabilitate himself through his own disciplinary regimen, his art and contributions to various charities, including San Quentin C.A.R.E.S.

    The art (pictured above), was created in April of this year. In Noguera’s words, “The piece Untitled-Opus April 9, 2013 (E Pluribus Unum) one from the Series Maximus Escapus was specifically created for the Avon Walk For Breast Cancer. It is a color-filled geometric abstraction based on landscape of my confinement, both physical and emotional articulated through a vocabulary of shape, color, and my unique charge or energy,” he said.

    The piece Untitled (Woman I) April 28, 2013, combines Noguera’s talent for blending hyper-realism and abstraction. ”This piece is a mixed media, ink and acrylic paint, it’s a hyper-realistic figure of a nude woman, which I washed over 75 times, with acrylic paint to give it the depth that it has. If you look closely it’s fragmented, as all my work is, and those fragmentations of the image are actually a geometric and mathematical formula based on emotion, and my surroundings,” Noguera told me. ” These images represent the walkways, the yard, the boundaries that I live within.”

    As each piece of art is created by Noguera, they are carefully packaged and stored until they are exhibited. I asked Noguera about how he remembers each piece when he has not seen them in months, yet describes them in detail. “I am the creator and I know each piece intimately. They are a portrait of me, of what I feel and what I go through. You cannot take the creator from the work. These pieces are the children of my mind. With that said, each piece I create is incomplete because I am no longer with it. Therefore, each viewer becomes as important as I am, because they complete the picture … bringing it to life, breathing life and emotion into that viewer. When that viewer walks away, the painting is again incomplete, waiting for a viewer to return.”

    Noguera had a message to the person who acquires his art, “I want each person that views each piece to become complete when they are in front of the piece.”

    Research and treatment of breast cancer is aimed at extending and improving the quality of life of patients who have this terrible disease that strikes young and old, black and white, rich and poor. Many of us, including this blogger, have a family member or friend who has battled or is battling breast cancer. The movement to find a cure has found its way into the hearts of incarcerated and condemned men inside of San Quentin. While some may be critical of Noguera’s contribution, those at San Quentin C.A.R.E.S. view it as an opportunity to offer life and hope from a place known for death and despair.

    Make an offer, change a life.

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpa...gift-for-life/
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    When it said a "gift for life" I thought it meant he was donating his organs.

    Death row inmates and even regular prisoners should be allowed to donate organs since there is a MAJOR shortage with over 100,000 people needing organs!

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    Jodi Arias Selling Limited Edition Prison Prints

    It’s a phrase more often associated with famed painters and artists than convicted murderers, but Jodi Arias’ art website has announced that they were releasing a “limited edition” print run of her latest jailhouse drawing, “Sailing at Sunset.”

    “She’s able to have access to paper and purchase color pencils, and if she wants to release her property to someone outside, she can,” said Chris Hegstrom, spokesman for the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office that oversees Arias’s incarceration.

    Arias was found guilty in May of stabbing and shooting to death her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander. The jury that convicted her could not agree whether Arias should receive the death penalty, and so Arias has not yet been sentenced. She remains in a women’s prison in Maricopa County, Ariz., where she is forbidden from using cell phones or computers.

    Still, Arias has managed to Tweet and sell artwork online anyway, according to her websites. Attempts to contact the owners of JodiArias.com have not been returned. Arias’ friend Donavan Bering claimed she was running the Twitter account during the trial, but Bering could not be reached by ABC News today for comment.

    In January, shortly after Arias’ murder trial began, her artwork appeared on eBay listed at prices of $300 to $400. It is unclear how much her current drawings cost. At that time, descriptions listed with the art noted that the profits would go to costs associated with the trial, including paying for Arias’ family to travel from their homes in California to Arizona for the five-month trial.

    The current drawings listed on JodiArias.com are portraits of celebrities, women’s faces, and nature scenes.

    “She’s not physically running a business from our jail,” Hegstrom said. “I can’t stop her from talking on the phone or releasing property.”

    It is unclear where the money from profits ends up, though Hegstrom said people outside of the jail can put money in Arias’ commissary fund.

    The Twitter account under Arias’ name recently sent a message saying Arias was bankrupt. She also tweeted that her parents and aunt and uncle were bankrupt, but deleted the latter messages from the account shortly thereafter.

    Arias’s parents did not return calls from ABC News seeking comment.

    Hergstrom warned that sheriff’s office officials cannot verify that the drawings are actually done by Arias.

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...prison-prints/
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    Don't give up your day job, Jodi. Any half-talented high-schooler could do as well.


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    It's not a bad drawing though.

    Kind of flat, not very realistic looking.

    She calls this piece "Coy" but it looks like herself idealized.

    Much of her art seems to be idealized drawings of herself.

    She must have drawn it using a mirror.

    This looks to me like a predator with gaping jaws and a hungry mouth.

    I think her fascination with herself mirrors her narcissism.

    And her narcissism was at the root of her lack of concern for the life of Travis Alexander.

    So this art actually reveals a lot about this murderess.

    Killers kill for various reasons.

    She seems to have killed out of rage because she had been scorned and unrequited.
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    Portland Woman Sells Notecards With Art By Death Row Inmates



    A Portland woman is selling note cards that feature art work by inmates on Oregon’s Death Row. Cynthia Edwards says she’s been pen pals with a Death Row inmate for the last ten years and that’s how she learned some of them spend time drawing. She was impressed by an inmate drawing of a butterfly and decided to create butterfly note cards.

    Edwards, who is a member of Oregonians For An Alternative To The Death Penalty, sells the cards through word of mouth with half the proceeds going to the inmate and the other half to Make A Wish Foundation. She says everyone thinks the cards are “beautiful.”

    http://kxl.com/2014/04/21/portland-w...h-row-inmates/
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    This is the artist profiting from the sale of the note cards.



    Summary of Offense:

    On January 21, 1997, a Douglas County jury sentenced Mexican citizen Alberto Reyes-Camarena to die for aggravated murders committed on September 17, 1995. He stabbed 32-year-old Angelica Zetina, whom he met working on a farm near Woodburn, 17 times, then stabbed and robbed her sister Maria, 18, nearly killing her. Both women were dumped on the side of the highway. Two days after his conviction and before the punishment phase of his trial began, Camarena and another inmate escaped from a holding cell. Camarena suffered a spinal injury when he fell four stories as the pair climbed down a makeshift rope. Both inmates were re-captured when they were discovered hiding in the basement of a nearby church nearly three weeks later. Camarena underwent surgery and was returned to finish his trial after his recovery.
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    Executed Chippenham burglar's skull up for auction


    Specialist Rupert van der Werff with the felon’s skull going under the hammer in Tuesday’s natural history auction

    The skull of an executed Chippenham felon is up at auction next week, with a guide price of £2,000 to £3,000.

    The skull dates from the early 19th century, when John Parker, 36, born in the parish of Langley, was hanged for a burglary in Bristol.

    The skull is being sold with a photocopied newspaper cutting detailing the execution, but there is no visible newspaper title or date.

    It says Mr Parker, along with 30-year-old Thomas Rodway, was hanged on the top of the lodge at “Glocester Gaol”, for the burglary of a Mrs Grey’s house at Clifton.

    It reads: “Although obdurate at first, they at last became more sensible of their awful situation and died with due penitence.”

    The piece has been privately owned by a natural history collector for 30 years.

    It will be up for sale at Summer Place Auctions in Billingshurst in West Sussex on Tuesday, when it will form part of the Garden, Design and Natural History auction.

    Auctioneer James Rylands said: “I think he has just run out of space and his wife isn’t hugely keen on it.

    “It is a fascinating piece of social history, that in those days, you did something like that and you’d be sent to the colonies or strung up.”

    An auction estimate was tricky, he said, as it was the first of its kind the firm had seen, but one person had expressed serious interest in the skull.

    “It is one of the more wacky items we have had,” he said.

    “I suspect it will appeal a lot to a very few people, rather than a little to a lot of people..”

    The 12ins skull is inscribed with “John Parker hanged for robbing Henbury Church and De Boudrie’s school”.

    It has been partially cut away to serve as an anatomical specimen and comes encased in an antique glass dome. An Egyptian mummified head is also for sale.

    For details, call (01403) 331331 or see www.summersplaceauctions.com

    http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/new...p_for_auction/
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