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Follow the artists, exhibitions, milestones, and cultural conversations shaping the work of the Returning Artists Guild.
Matter News talks with the RAG co-founders Aimee Wissman and Kamisha Thomas about Home Free, the RAG’s 2025 exhibition at the McConnell Arts Center, and their work to use art to expand conversations about incarceration, abolition and what a free future can look like.
Call Declined, a four-part podcast series from Lemonada Media, tells the story of Returning Artists Guild co-founders Aimee Wissman and Kamisha Thomas—from the experiences that led to their incarceration to the friendship, creativity and shared vision that eventually became the RAG.
The Journal-News previews Home Free: Ohio Artists Envision Prison Abolition, a RAG exhibition at the Fitton Center for Creative Arts in Hamilton.
Journal-News profiles RAG co-founder Aimee Wissman, tracing how art became a source of connection and agency during incarceration—and how that experience helped shape the Returning Artists Guild.
Cincinnati’s Local 12 covers the opening of Home Free at the Fitton Center for Creative Arts in Hamilton, Ohio, highlighting the RAG’s work to bring the art and perspectives of currently and formerly incarcerated artists to a broader audience.
The Fitton Center for Creative Arts introduces Home Free: Ohio Artists Envision Prison Abolition, the touring exhibition co-curated by Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood and the RAG co-founders Aimee Wissman and Kamisha Thomas.