ART WORKS CONTINUUM is an MFA type studio arts program, and archiving dynamic, serving marginalized peoples including those challenged by homelessness or recent homelessness.
Encompassing, and highly defined by its ten years (1998-2008) as the Original Skid Row LAMP ART PROJECT in Los Angeles' intensely oppressed but culturally rich SKID ROW sector, the project's roots go back yet further.
In the early 1970's a high level studio and art history course, University of California accredited, at the Special Security Unit of California Institution for Women was organized by the Women's Prison Project: Working closely with the Prison Project founder, the late Dr. Karlene Faith Ph.D., the art project portion was designed, implemented and taught by one of their few male staff persons, Rory White.