In 2025, Dell’Arte’s Orbit Arts Program started classes at the local jail in Eureka, California with women experiencing incarceration.

Together each week the class explores poetry, self-expression, processing experience through somatic exercises, writing, hands-on art making, and collaborative projects. Currently our participants are working on an art journaling project with supplies sponsored by the Art Center Arcata. The class is designed to provide a supportive and humanizing space to emotionally regulate, grow, and reflect through creative engagement.

Check out some of the cut-up poems below created by participants in the first fall cohort!