{"id":111446,"date":"2020-07-30T08:53:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T12:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=111446"},"modified":"2022-03-04T15:38:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T20:38:14","slug":"from-inmate-to-mfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/from-inmate-to-mfa\/","title":{"rendered":"From Inmate to MFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The art teacher is telling his students to scribble. He doesn\u2019t want to see any straight lines.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI knew I had to counter my incarceration with something positive. Education would be the ticket to get my life back on track.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Jason Fronczek \u201916<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cA straight line isn\u2019t true to life,\u201d says <strong>Jason Fronczek \u201916<\/strong>. \u201cMake scribbles. Give them time. They\u2019ll eventually look beautiful and real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fronczek\u2019s students have names. But if you saw their clothes and where class is being held, you wouldn\u2019t ask for their names. You\u2019d just call them prisoners. The teacher has a different perspective, though.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been in your shoes,\u201d he tells the students incarcerated at the Central Florida Reception Center in Orlando run by the Florida Department of Corrections.<\/p>\n<p>He has their attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m about to finish my master\u2019s degree at UCF.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And with that, their eyes are open wide \u2014 just as eyes should be.<\/p>\n<p>Fronczek is still trying to process this himself. He was released from prison 10 years ago but is still releasing himself from the trap of his own story. Photography has freed him to see the world in a whole different way. And teaching art through the Florida Prison Education Project (FPEP) is his way of giving others hope while they\u2019re still incarcerated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJason is an amazing person,\u201d says Keri Watson, associate professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/art-ba\/history\/\">art history<\/a> at UCF and director of FPEP. \u201cI don\u2019t see him as a \u2018former felon.\u2019 He\u2019s a father, a student, an artist. To see what he\u2019s gone through \u2014 he\u2019s an illustration of success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fronczek tells his students to keep those eyes open wide. Because if he can see himself in their shoes, maybe they can also see themselves in his.<\/p>\n<h2>Finding a Positive Perspective<\/h2>\n<p>Fronczek doesn\u2019t avoid the uncomfortable truth. \u201cI was convicted, imprisoned.\u201d Just get it out of the way so the talk can go from small to very large. \u201cI want people to realize that my mistakes are not my identity. I\u2019ve moved forward. We should all move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA straight line isn\u2019t true to life. Make scribbles. Give them time. They\u2019ll eventually look beautiful and real.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To do that, he\u2019ll first give the details you\u2019re wondering about. He went to jail in August 2006 for burglarizing a neighbor\u2019s home. Sentenced to five years, he ended up serving four years and three months.<\/p>\n<p>Fronczek could easily have chosen to become bitter or jaded. He chose instead to read \u2014 one or two books every day. The longer books, like etymological dictionaries, took three days. By the time he got out in 2010, he\u2019d consumed about 2,000 books.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew I had to counter my incarceration with something positive,\u201d says Fronczek. \u201cEducation would be the ticket to get my life back on track.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bible made such an impact that he first thought about going to seminary school. But shortly after his release, the mother of a friend gave Fronczek a used camera. It brought back memories \u2014 good memories. He wanted to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>So less than a year after leaving prison, Fronczek enrolled at Valencia College and through the <a href=\"https:\/\/directconnect.ucf.edu\/\">DirectConnect to UCF program<\/a> earned bachelor\u2019s degrees in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/art-ba\/visual-arts-and-emerging-media-management\/\">visual arts and emerging media management<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/studio-art-bfa\/\">studio art<\/a>. The two majors piqued his interest in the power of art, so in 2016 he applied to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/emerging-media-mfa\/\">emerging media MFA program<\/a>. A year later he reapplied and was accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Fronczek absorbed concepts and applied them to his own photography. He took a few of Watson\u2019s courses because something at the core of her teaching connected with him, he says. She also told him the hard truth about his thesis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was too general, too focused on research,\u201d she says. \u201cFor art to be universally understood, you need to start with your own story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Fronczek is willing to share his story in casual conversation, he also knows how hard it is to understand. It takes perspective.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s just it. Art <em>is<\/em> perspective, right?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBringing personal experiences into my thesis makes all the difference,\u201d he says, \u201cbecause I want a way to influence attitudes and behaviors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Personal perspective is especially true with his photography, which can be traced back to the point-and-shoot camera he bought for $10 as a kid, the Nikon he got from his brother in a sweet trade, and the gift from his friend\u2019s mother after his incarceration. Perspective allows him to marvel through his lenses at things the rest of us might ignore. Chaos in leaves. Empty bicycle racks at Walmart. The construction on I-4, of all places.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look at the juxtaposition of the pylons and the angles of unfinished bridges,\u201d he says. \u201cIt all has something interesting to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Sharing His Story<\/h2>\n<p>Even with his bachelor\u2019s degrees and a master\u2019s nearly in hand, Fronczek finds it challenging to find a place to rent or to score job interviews. It\u2019s the box he has to check on the applications. <em>Ever been convicted of a felony?<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cArt has a way of showing the potential you never realized you had. Look at me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But even the box has opened up a something marvelous. There were things Watson and Fronczek didn\u2019t know about each other through their first few semesters together at UCF. He didn\u2019t know she\u2019d taught art to prisoners in Alabama and in 2018 launched the FPEP. She didn\u2019t know where he\u2019d been, either.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could sense there was something special Jason had to offer,\u201d she says, \u201cbut I didn\u2019t know he\u2019d been incarcerated until I saw the box he had to check when applying for our master\u2019s program. That\u2019s when I asked him to teach in the FPEP program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fronczek is more likely to say he spends three hours a day \u201cencouraging\u201d incarcerated students rather than teaching.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArt has a way of showing the potential you never realized you had,\u201d he says. \u201cLook at me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says he still hasn\u2019t grasped the gravity of this: Jason Fronczek, MFA. But that isn\u2019t his identity, either. His life is a bunch of scribbles, like the world around us. 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