The government delegate in Murcia, Rafael González Tovar, director of the Penitentiary of Murcia, Francisco Marín, and territorial president of Caja Mediterráneo, Angel Martinez, inaugurated this morning the traveling exhibition "Prisoners of the Fine Arts", organized by Templars Cultural Association of Jumilla, involving internal fifteen different prisons around the country and a total of 15 works.
The program developed by the association, in collaboration with the Ministry of Interior, is the delivery of lectures in prisons about the history and legends of the Templars and the contribution of books to libraries of schools on this topic, whose reading will inspire some of the works.
Also develop a visual arts workshop with the contribution of pictorial materials necessary for learning or recreational enthusiasts inmates paint.
This program aims both to encourage creativity in fine arts in prisons while ensuring that these works are acquired by banks and companies such as CAM or horticultural enterprise Cervera Group, earmarking the funds raised to aid the families of artists .
The exhibition will be on display in the Green Center Sangonera between 10 and 24 May and will last to be installed in the lobby of Assembly Hall, by both insiders and guests.
It will then be taken to other prisons in Valencia, Valladolid, Lleida, Tarragona, as well as exhibition halls and other public locations that they request.
Source: Delegación del Gobierno en Murcia