Liberated Arts Collective

Liberated Arts Collective (LAC) began in 2016, through the collective vision of multi-disciplinary artist Veronique d’Entremont and formerly-incarcerated artists Manuel Barrios, Dennis Durbin, Paul Macias, Walter Wilson. Liberated Arts Collective continues to co-create healing spaces with and for individuals whose lives have been impacted by incarceration and institutionalization, with the participation of artists and writers such as Ra Avis, Akina Cox, Sir James Bailey, Veronica De Jesus, Mitsuko Brooks, gloria galvez, Cole M. James, Olga Koumoundouros, Kate Kershenstein, Maria Maea, Kavior Moon, Jasmine Nyende and Paul Woods, and has organized an LAC group exhibition at Ochi Projects gallery, Human Resources Los Angeles, and Beyond the Bars conference at UCLA.