Aimee Wissman, a native Ohioan, is a self-taught visual artist, curator, mother, and survivor of the carceral system. Aimee is passionate about the value of the presence, and the practice of artists, working in a community, to create art that is a tool for resistance against oppressive structures and a source of autonomy and healing for suffering people. In 2018, Wissman and Kamisha Thomas founded the Returning Artists Guild (RAG), an abolitionist arts guild made up of directly-impacted artists like themselves. Through the RAG, they are able to provide resources and support for these artists as they work towards healing, recovery, and redefining the narrative surrounding mass incarceration. 

Aimee's visual artworks explore the intersections of her own lived experience with incarceration, addiction, abuse, motherhood, poverty, safety, and the architecture of violence. Her paintings are full of surface tension and are particularly focused on the abstract expression of the symbolic languages of carceral spaces. She is currently building a body of 3-D, site-specific, installation works, as well as exploring abolitionist fiber art practices. You can find her work in the permanent collections of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Pardon Attorney, the Columbus Public Library, and in the groundbreaking exhibition, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.