Study of Artists in a Maximum Security Prison (1981)

Investigators: Cynthia Baroody-Hart and Michael P. Farrell

Population: Visual artists

Identification method: Artists as defined by self and others.

Sampling procedure: Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and direct observation on a "snowball sample" of artists initially gathered from guards and other artists.

N and Response rate: Unavailable in work reviewed.

Publication: Baroody Hart, Cynthia and Michael P. Farrell. 1987. "The Subculture of Serious Artists in a Maximum Security Prison." Urban Life, 15(3-4): 421-448.

Summary: An ethnographic study of the art world of "serious artists" in a maximum security prison in the United States, based on extensive interviews with inmate-artists and guards, both alone and in groups, and direct observation of the settings in which inmates "do art."