Welcome
ArtsAloud-OSU
The ArtsAloud-OSU mission is to impact the lives of the incarcerated by devising original ensemble performance. By working in this intimate, collaborative manner, the participants discover a voice through which they can process and share their unique life perspectives in a constructive, process oriented environment.
By utilizing language, story, poetry, music as well as other forms of expression, the devising process helps inmates strengthen their internal locus of control, evaluate their own life experience and then share their work in a manner that highlights their shared humanity. This wonderfully positive, creative tool allows those involved to experience new levels of empathy and a shared humanity.
Additionally, the training allows those involved to begin to observe that which is inherently performative in everyday life, while finding incredible beauty in the seemingly mundane, thus opening the possibility of envisioning a new future.
OSU’s Land Grant- Teaching- Research-Outreach
The long term goals of ArtsAloud- OSU are to train facilitators through OSU’s Masters in Theatre program, while expanding to other correctional institutions across the state, in accordance with OSU’s Land Grant Mission. This guiding principal states OSU’s goal of “improving the lives of people in Oklahoma…through high-quality teaching, research and outreach.”
The Mary Lou Lemon Endowment
Through the three year seed money of The Mary Lou Lemon Endowed Professorship, and the Professional Leadership of Jodi Jinks, we envision the facilitation of those creative activities that “promote human and economic development through the expansion of knowledge and its application” while empowering people through the theatre arts.
Public- Private Partnership
ArtsAloud- OSU seeks to develop future partnerships with private and public organizations to carry on the essential work of envisioning the development of human potential, ultimately impacting the state’s economy through a self-empowered, focused and innovative work force.
For information on how you can help contact jodi.jinks@okstate.edu.