Artist Lecture With Vin Ryan

Vin Ryan is an artist, educator, and scholar from Australia. He is visiting SDSU on a Fellowship with Prison Arts Collective (PAC) granted by the International Specialised Skills Institute, designed to allow educators to travel overseas to observe/ participate/ contribute to areas of education that are identified as in need of improvement within the Australian system. Dr. Ryan facilitates visual art programs primarily for Aboriginal men at two prisons in Melbourne, Australia.

You can learn more about Dr. Ryan’s inspirational work in “The Art of Incarceration,” a documentary released on Netflix in July 2022 about The Torch organization, demonstrating how he and other teachers help incarcerated Indigenous students to connect with art and culture.