Words Within the Walls is a project highlighting the voices and creativity of students at the Juvenile Justice Center. Students who participate in WritersCorps workshops collaborated with artists to create these posters with the hope of inspiring the community though their words.

To see these posters in larger sizes, please go to our set on Flickr. There, you can view each poster in larger sizes.

Kathy Gin, WritersCorps’ artist in residence, visited Mission High School on March 5, 2009 to teach photography to students of WritersCorps teacher Milta Ortiz. Here are the best shots from students Guadalupe Bello, Irene Noh, Jorge Mehia, Steven Morales, Rebeca Zecena, Ertezak Ismail, Chen Tianyang, and Itzel Matias. You can also view the set on flickr.

More photos of fruit taken by our students at Mission High School. Beautiful! To see this set on flickr, go here.

WritersCorps artist-in-residence Katharine Gin visited Cindy Je’s class at Mission High School on February 21, 2008 to teach students photography. As you can see, their work bore fruit. To see these photos on flickr, go here.

Artwork by students at Log Cabin Ranch, in collaboration with Katharine Gin, WritersCorps artist-in-residence. To view this set on flickr, go here.