Rhodessa Jones, a writer, actress, teacher, activist and singer, visited Dean Rena Fraden’s first-year seminar class this week. Jones is responsible for starting the Medea Project, which was created to introduce incarcerated women to the arts as a means of survival and renewed life.  The course, “Art, Identity, and Society,” explores the ways in which artists shape and, at the same time, are shaped by specific political, cultural, and historical forces.

For more on Jones and the Medea Project, visit: http://www.culturalodyssey.org/medea/index.html.