
The Mission
Building Bridges
Connecting Writers & Other Artists to the Arts Community
Our mission is to provide a platform to connect arts and other community-focused organizations with a diverse pool of talented, resourceful, and motivated people impacted by the criminal legal system, and vice versa, in order to provide returning citizens with broader access to job opportunities, a variety of resources for smooth reentry, and routes to engage deeply with arts, social-justice, and community-focused organizations.
Why the ReEntry Lab?
There are many organizations centered around reentry (and doing great work). Other groups focus on the arts, and on social justice, and on building a more equitable, inclusive, and just society.
The ReEntry Lab is working to bring those pieces together, building bridges between writers and other artists leaving incarceration and the larger community to which they return, in the process giving socially conscious organizations a way to fulfill their obligations to people who count on them to make a difference.
Better Things (March 2025)
Please join us on Tuesday, March 4th, at 7:00pm, at Moon Palace Books, for our next community gathering, where we will roll up some poetry gumballs for the MPWW gumball machines at Moon Palace Books and elsewhere; hold space to talk (or not talk) about the current political climate among supportive & welcoming people; and share work with each other during our Open Mic period. This gathering, and the open mic afterward, will be hosted by Davi Gray, Erin Sharkey, and Louise Waakaa’igan.
There’s a Facebook event you can RSVP to, but you can also just show up! We’d love to have you there.

For more details, see Better Things.
Stay tuned for further details! – follow our Facebook page, our Instagram account (@reentrylab), and/or sign up for our newsletter.
Zine Workshops!
ReEntry Lab Residency at the Liberal Arts Engagement Hub
The ReEntry Lab is hosting two free zine workshops in February as part of our 2024-2025 Liberal Arts Engagement Hub Residency. Come join us and YOLOW Zines and make something cool!
- Workshops are free to attend, but registration is required and attendees must be 18 or older.
- Register at tinyurl.com/HubZines, or scan the QR code on the flyer
- Sign up for one or both! We’re making different styles of zines at each one.
Workshop #2 – February 21st, 11 am – 1 pm
Let’s make a zine together! We will collaboratively pick a topic, and then we will each create a page for our zine. At the end of the workshop, we will learn how to put our zine through the photocopier. Everyone will leave with a copy of our collaborative zine for you to show off to your friends.
