Bajito Onda® is the only one of our kind in the world... Our art is authentic prison work. Created from within the Lock-Up isloation of solitary confinement in prisons in Texas and Arizona. Most of it is sent in pencil since that is the only tool many of them have. Where they are allowed and if they may also choose to do their submissions in color - their decisions are respected and works are recreated in color. However the most cherished form of prison art is by the single pencil craft. Pencil / not computers / not photoshop is the true craft. Some Bajito Onda artists have already spent 27 years behind the walls. Most are lifers. If it were not for their art they society would never know they were there.
Bajito Onda allows them to give back in the form of fashion and merchandise world through art, poetry, and many other creative measures. Most of our artists were parentless young boys with no guidance growing up on the mean streets.

Our artists are Chicano, Native American, Mexican and Asian. They bring their rich cultural heritage with them and wind it into their experiences of life on the streets, prison hardship and the mental journeys it sends them on. Their art reflects their particular journey of who they are, where they’ve been and what they’ve done.

Bajito Onda is the art and written journal of our collective lives.

Prisoners contribute their artwork and where it is allowed they receive a mutually agreeable form of payment. Mostly they draw for their art supplies, for their basic needs and to provide for their loved ones left behind... But they all are commited soldiers in the Underground Movement Army Bajito Onda.