Show so this abi S Is jail A the occupational therapy department of tin the penitentiary of th the city of new york on bikers island is more like an art school thai a prison the materials used are prison waste much of it from the th funk pile these then photos show you the behind the bars artists artist at worl work 1 0 1 1 i 1 1 c V wf qt A A good two inmates are working on a textile print here the cloth is salvaged from workout bed sheets and the cuts were made from scrap piece pieced s of linoleum Y 4 nit I 1 above there are burnt matches in this A house which is complete ly furnished windows p we are glazed with cello cello I 1 AS phane from cigarette ci rette I 1 facks arks the patience and i an fn industry u try displayed by this man indicate a change of p hert heart K right this nan man not aly does the actual man ua aal work of making hooked rugs but also ere cre utes ates the designs and color schemes His materials are burlap from ol 01 old d sacks and K wool cool unraveled from old j socks locks he dyes his matei ac rials to the tint needed ft sa s1 r ian w 4 ti 0 1 J J lo 10 W I 1 at M af lif k 4 Z 0 OY q X W 40 a il q general view of one of the classrooms of the occupational therapy depart department departie me n 1 it looks like a typical classroom in a typical art school solomon S dameshek artist who supervises the work looks ov over er the project of one of his pupils who is making a hooked hooke d rug other students are plaster casting or working on leather V 1 I v Z I 1 V |