Tom Williams is assistant professor of art history at Watkins College of Art. He is a graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, and his writings have appeared in Art in America, Grey Room, and other publications. Since 2013, he has co-facilitated the art workshop in Unit 2 (the Death Row unit) of the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, and he co-organized (with Robin Paris) a number of exhibitions of prisoners’ art, including Life After Death and Elsewhere at Apexart in New York City.