Writing about the teaching artist practice should mean writing about art making. As both teacher and artist, the authors are required to be cognizant of their own art-making processes, both how it works and why it is important to them, in order to make this process visible to their students. They also need the same skills to write about how and…

It is definitely easier to write about work when things are going well, but it is even more important to write about what happens when things get challenging. The act of writing about the challenging times can be challenging in itself but can also provide invaluable insights into the process of teaching: important for the writer and just as…

Since the author started as a guest-teaching artist at California State Prison-Sacramento (CSP-Sac) in 2009, she has seen a dozen or so really talented writers and artists "move away." In this article, she reflects on continuity, discontinuity and artistic space in prison. She makes four observations from the prison art room: (1) The people make…