A's England
Just after I left advertising, and mere months before Working Artists, LLC was even a twinkle in my mind, I had an opportunity to travel to England to meet with some of the world's foremost leaders in applying the arts to improve and transform the lives of prison inmates.
I had just completed a 1 1/2 year experience leading arts-based workshops to women inmates at Coffee Creek Correctional in Wilsonville, Oregon and I was clear of the transformative power of the arts. What I didn't have was any idea how to put a business or organizational structure around this thing I was doing that had such an enormous positive impact. But the men I met with in England did.