Publications by authors named "Marcia B Haffmans"

Inside Out: Change Through Art.

Womens Health Rep (New Rochelle)

October 2020

Over the past three decades, there has been a 900% increase in the number of women experiencing incarceration in Minnesota. We wished to test whether handwriting, as creative visual art expression for women in jail, would be a positive experience for them as well as for individuals viewing the artwork during expositions. Over a 2-year period, the principal artist invited women residents from four separate county jails in Minnesota, to handwrite their thoughts on a sheet of paper.

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