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Artist Omari Booker, formerly incarcerated, frames ‘home’ and healing in Arts Commission session
Summary
At an Arts Commission meeting, artist Omari Booker described using art to explore the meaning of "home," recounting a history of incarceration and recovery while workshop participants offered definitions and showed handmade "positive sticks."
At an Arts Commission meeting, artist Omari Booker, who described himself as "based in Nashville," spoke about using art to explore the meaning of "home" and as a part of his recovery after incarceration. "My name's Omari Booker, artist based in Nashville," he said, adding that he served a 15-year prison sentence and was released after about three and a half years.
Booker told the commission that making art helped his recovery. "I got out and started making art everyday because art was extremely healing," he said. He…
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