Photography by David Wilson

With support from the California Arts Council, the Medea Project is inaugurating THE MEDEA ACADEMY as the next step to develop the bridge between community members and formally incarcerate individuals.

The Medea Academy reinforces the direct impact that the arts have on health, welfare and economic well-being -- all essential elements to transition ex-inmates back to their homes. As a novel program model, developed by Rhodessa Jones, the Medea Academy is an innovative approach to the "finishing" that focuses on helping women become FULLY functioning "citizens" taking their place in community.

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This first phase of the Medea Academy focused on providing Creating Writing workshops online for women. Workshops continued every Thursday evening at 6pm through the Final Show on May 13, 2021.

​Led by Lisa Frias and Fe Bongolon, inside San Francisco County Jail #2, by March 2020, the pandemic was official; and, like the rest of the country, we were sheltering!  Along with other official sites, S.F. County Jail was in lockdown! Our ‘inside’ writing workshops were immediately closed! To finish the work, Angela Wilson, core Medea member, stepped up and gathered women from transitional housing, therapeutic communities, and halfway houses, and invited all recently released women.
 
Big love to SFSU Professor Alex Pappas for her very beautifully ‘reimagined’ History of Women in Classical Literature that informed this work! -- Rhodessa Jones.

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The Medea Project is a program of Cultural Odyssey a non-profit organization in San Francisco, California. 
This program is made possible by the California Arts Council.

Rhodessa Jones & The Medea Project
A CULTURAL ODYSSEY PROGRAM
[email protected]
Post Office Box 156620
S.F., CA  94115
(415) 292-1850