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Peggy Diggs, a Massachusetts-based artist, has just completed the latest phase of her ambitious project, WorkOut, resulting in the production of transformable furniture designed for small spaces. The genesis of the project was an article Diggs read about how people might manage through a global warming crisis, which led her to seek out "expert" input from people who actually have to cope with living in confined spaces.

Working with a dozen inmates from the Gaterford Maximum Security Prison, Diggs was able to navigate endless issues of visitation access, intellectual property, photography restrictions, and naysayers to power through a project that ultimately gave the participants pride in what they had created.

And as far as iconic "cardboard foldable furniture" designs go, this actually looks very, very good. Graphics, ditto.

The show runs through Oct. 25 at the Broad Street Ministry, 320 S. Broad St., in Philadelphia. Peggy Diggs can be contacted at Peggy.Diggs[at]williams.edu