{"id":219,"date":"2012-01-27T13:46:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T17:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/whatsnew\/?p=219"},"modified":"2022-04-20T16:46:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T20:46:24","slug":"paul-rucker-awarded-grant-to-make-more-art-about-the-parallels-between-slavery-and-mass-incarceration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/27\/paul-rucker-awarded-grant-to-make-more-art-about-the-parallels-between-slavery-and-mass-incarceration\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Rucker awarded grant to make more art about the parallels between slavery and mass incarceration."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friend of Prison Policy Initiative <a href=\"http:\/\/paulrucker.com\/\">artist Paul Rucker<\/a> has been awarded a prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120115035343\/http:\/\/creative-capital.org\/projects\/view\/723\">grant from Creative Capital<\/a> to make more art about mass incarceration. His 2009 project, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ySH-FgMljYo&#038;feature=youtu.be\">Proliferation<\/a>, was inspired by the map of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/prisonproliferation.html\">U.S. Prison Proliferation, 1900-2000<\/a> by PPI&#8217;s <a href=\"\/alumns.html#t_Rose_Heyer\">Rose Heyer<\/a>.  <!-- Don't miss the review of Proliferation on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityartsmagazine.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/paul-ruckers-soundscape-tracks-us-prisons\">CityArts<\/a>. --> Congratulations Paul!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friend of Prison Policy Initiative artist Paul Rucker has been awarded a prestigious grant from Creative Capital to make more art about mass incarceration. His 2009 project, Proliferation, was inspired by the map of U.S. Prison Proliferation, 1900-2000 by PPI&#8217;s Rose Heyer. Congratulations Paul!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13565,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/13565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}