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VA: Lorton prison turned into an arts center

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

?We really are just beginning? By Janet Rems The Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton has already accomplished so much that people think this vibrant, rapidly growing arts community has been around longer than one year. ?We really are just beginning,? said Sharon Mason of Springfield, the Workhouse?s executive director, during a recent conversation at the former 30-building prison on 55 acres off Ox Road. Officially opened on Sept. 19 of last year on the site of the readapted D.C. Workhouse & Reformatory, the Workhouse houses 100 professional artists, selected in a juried competition. There is also a healthy waiting list of artists who have also completed the jurying process, according to Mason. In their lease agreements, all Workhouse artists commit to a minimum of 100 hours per month of studio time so that the public can observe them directly at work...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 23, 2009 (boomark / email).