What is the power of the arts and humanities in prisons? What is the value of the intimate space that is created between people who live in prisons and the volunteers who come in to teach in those classroom spaces? This is what we, Cedric and Karen, have come to the page to think about aloud, together. We are now two years into writing together about arts in prisons, and it has been six years since Cedric first stepped into Karen’s Shakespeare theater classroom in a men’s state prison in Colorado. Now into his 22nd year of incarceration, Cedric still recalls that day as “the first time that someone, other than my visitors in the visiting room, looked at me and saw a human being.”