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Pecenco discusses the importance of using arts-based research in the dissemination of research findings, using the case study of Project PAINT, a visual arts program that she founded and runs at a California state prison. This chapter explores how employing participatory action research in designing exhibitions of participant-created art allows for research participants themselves to communicate and provide their own analyses with the outside world. Displaying their art can promote dialogue directly between participants, researchers, and the general public, thereby allowing the research findings to be shared with a much broader audience than often seen in academic studies. Recognizing the agency of and empowering research participants is an integral component of anti-oppressive arts-based research.
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Pecenco, L. (2018). From the Inside Out: Using Arts-Based Research to Make Prison Art Public. In: Capous-Desyllas, M., Morgaine, K. (eds) Creating Social Change Through Creativity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52129-9_17
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