Pale Night (donated to hospice unit of a men’s prison)

It is the vision of this non-profit project that the prison community has the fullest and most complex experience of art. This full experience occurs when both viewers and artists are understood as equal participants in the creative and transformative power of art; understanding art beyond a tool for therapy, rehabilitation, and busy time to understanding the experience of art as fluid in that it cannot be put into tidy definitions and no one can dictate what or whom it will eventually influence.

"Treacy Ziegler is an exhibiting artist and over the past 20 years has had about 30 exhibitions in major galleries in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto, Alexandria, VA. and Corning, NY. She is a graduate of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Prior to attending art school, Treacy received a Master of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania. At that time, she worked as a family therapist and social worker primarily in the housing projects of Philadelphia. In An Open Window project she brings both her skills and vision as a working artist with her social work experience to develop a complex understanding of both art and the viewer's relationship to that art."