Fused glass and paper, Oakland, CA. "I volunteer with a program (The Beat Within) inside California’s juvenile halls. It encourages locked up, mostly BIPOC teens to express themselves through writing and art. The pencil drawing created by one of the teens looks to me like a Buddha. I reproduced it twice: one symbolizes incarceration and one symbolizes freedom.

1983, 28" x 32", oil on linen. The painting was featured in the artist's retrospective show at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in 2024.

Collage with ink and watercolor, 11" x 14", San Francisco, CA. "I like to create art using several different types of media such as collage, pen and ink, linocut, and mosaics. My art is usually political, and I hope it makes people think, inspires them to act, encourages them to create, strengthens their commitment, comforts their soul, and energizes their resolve."

Oil on Canvas. Alex Stokes is a political prisoner in NY state, currently incarcerated at Upstate Correctional Facility in Malone, NY. His hometown is Albany, NY.