FEATURING:

Portraits of Philadelphia

Works by Charles Zafir Lawson, Co-Founder of Art for Justice (AfJ)

Charles Zafir Lawson, serving life without parole at Phoenix SCI in PA, is a self – taught artist.  Mr. Lawson began to paint as a way to save his sanity and to call out the injustice and oppression in the criminal justice system. Charles Lawson’s thought provoking, inspirational art has been exhibited by AfJ at over 100 venues and events. Many of the murals in Philadelphia created by the Mural Arts Program were painted by individuals incarcerated at Graterford Prison – Charles Lawson’s portraiture is seen in the faces in some of these murals. Mr. Lawson is also to Co-Creator of the Road Map for Life Workshops for Youth.