"Nick Szuberla is an artist at Appalshop, an Appalachian-based arts organization. In 1998, Nick founded the media arts project "Holler to the Hood" to explore the social impact of moving hundreds of thousands of inner city minority offenders to distant rural prisons. With a variety of media (live performance, radio, video and digital) and form (including a multimedia installation and database-driven web site), his projects focus on creating public space where people can tell their story in their own voice. He is the current director and co-founder of ""Thousand Kites"" a national dialogue and organizing project addressing the U.S. criminal justice system and human rights. A "Creative Capital" fellowship grantee, Szuberla was recently awarded a "New Generations" fellowship from the Theater Communications Group."
