Arts-Based Programming

Through various courses and workshops encompassing all artistic modalities, we help build educational and therapeutic environments that serve as spaces for expression, healing, collaboration, community-building, and innovative thinking.
 
In 2025-2026, we are partnering with Impact Arts to provide and expand visual arts and interdisciplinary classes at Sterling, Fremont, Colorado Territorial, Arkansas Valley, and Crowley County correctional facilities.
 
Over the past few years, DU PAI offered 15-week in-person courses on dance & movement, songwriting, theatre-making, set building, and beyond in numerous facilities as well as 12-week correspondence courses to students who weren’t able to participate in in-person programming due to their higher custody levels.

"It was in these [workshop] moments [that] I didn't feel like I was in prison and more somewhere I belong." – DU PAI Incarcerated Participant

"I feel as if I have a renewed sense of purpose when it comes to my personal and professional interactions with other human beings." – DU PAI Incarcerated Participant

Intro to art making practices class
Intro to song writing class
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