Jennifer Marx was born and raised in southern Minnesota. She experienced an unstable and difficult childhood but found solace in creating art. Jennifer learned to draw and paint from both her grandmother, who was herself an artist and art teacher, and her father. At age 30, Jennifer survived what should have been a fatal car accident. Jennifer became addicted to the narcotic pain medication she was prescribed following reconstructive surgery. When the prescription ran out, Jennifer turned first to using and then to selling street drugs to feed her addiction. Eventually, Jennifer was caught selling drugs and was sentenced to 65 months in prison. “Art got me through prison,” Jennifer says. At first art was her “hustle” – she would draw for fellow inmates to earn money to spend at the prison canteen. Later, she used art in a therapy class to process and heal from trauma. Through her participation in a Prison Fellowship program, Jennifer developed a relationship with God that infuses her art and allows people to feel the beauty of her art as much as she does. As Jennifer navigated the challenges of reentry into the community from prison, she did not feel she had time to create art. But following a “serendipitous” connection between her employer and Art from The Inside, Jennifer believed, “God is telling me I need to take time for art still, and I’m going to listen.” Jennifer hopes that by sharing her story through Art from The Inside, she “can be an inspiration.”