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Your support helps to provide a place where the aspiring artist, established artists and performers, and arts enthusiasts can gather together to experience the transformative nature of the arts.
Support Art that Shifts Culture
The Returning Artists Guild (RAG) is a peer-led community built by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated creatives who are building new paths forward through creative practice, mutual support, and collective care.
Our work is about ensuring creatives have the resources, relationships, and stability they need to move forward during incarceration, through reentry, and beyond. Creative practice offers a way to process, express, connect, and live as a whole person beyond the limitations of the carceral system.
Through public programs, exhibitions, and cultural engagement, RAG is helping reshape how people understand incarceration, creativity, and community.
Your support helps make this work possible.
Make a Donation
Resource the work. Support the movement.
Your gift helps sustain a peer-driven model that prioritizes access, freedom, and creative practice. It funds the materials, infrastructure, and coordination that allow artists to create, share their work, and stay connected to a larger community.
It ensures that support remains free and values-driven—without barriers or conditions.
Give today to invest in artists, in cultural change, and in the future they are helping to imagine.
Additional Ways to Support
Partner with RAG
Collaborate on public programs, exhibitions, or initiatives that create opportunities for artists and foster meaningful community dialogue.
Contribute in-kind
Provide materials, tools, space, or professional services that directly resource artists and support their work.
Hire or commission artists
Work with RAG artists for creative projects, speaking engagements, or consulting grounded in lived experience.
Use our secure form to make a tax-deductible gift
Or send a check: Make checks payable to Friends of The RAG P.O. Box 361362 Columbus, Ohio 43236
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