Ray's Own Works...

Sins and Needles: A Story of Spiritual Mending
 - an Excerpt from Ray's book entitled ".

Interviews...

Ray Materson was interviewed for CBS's Assignment America by Steve Hartmon. Check out the videos below!

Ex-Con on Pins and Needles - This was the segment which aired.
Eye To Eye: Unlikely Embroider - This is a web-only video, where Ray explains how he got started, and how he is proposing a program to prison systems in America to start teaching inmates embroidery.

Various Articles on Ray, including reviews...

New Yorker - Goings on About Town 7/2005 - Scroll down to American Folk Art Museum. A nice review from the folks @ The New Yorker
The Diane Rehm Show - A stream of a guest appearance on Diane Rehm's radio show
New York Times - An art review that mentions a mural Ray painted in prison
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NPR
City Paper - Baltimore City Paper Online. Article, Pipe Dreams, American Visionary Art Museum exhibit: High on Life
Artnet - outsider - Outsider Art Fair Review, N.F. Karlins for ArtNet
ICSA - Press Release announcing Innovator Award; M. Booth & Associates
Raw Vision - Through the Eye of the Needle

NEW! Uncommon Threads - The Sacramento Bee
NEW! Muse: 'Stories Through Needle and Thread': One stitch closer to spiritual reform - From the California Aggie