New York, N.Y. New York City has an annual event that educates the public on mental health that I believe is the finest in America. This symposium – and luncheon – is hosted by Fountain House each spring at The Pierre. This year, the event’s tenth, the topic was “Mental Illness and the Family: Relationships, Resilience, Recovery. The [...]
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Fountain Gallery Presents Exhibition at Stonehenge-Luce Annex
New York, N.Y. Fountain Gallery, the premier venue in New York City representing artists with mental illness, presents Works on Paper at the Stonehenge-Luce Non-Profit Annex, a pop-up gallery located at 1159 Second Avenue at 61st Street in Manhattan. This 30-work exhibit of drawings, collages and watercolors will be on view from Friday, January 18 through Saturday, February [...]
Museum of Technology, Art and Science on Roosevelt Island?
New York, N.Y. Cornell NYC Tech is headed to Roosevelt Island, New York City — ‘Silicon Island of the East.’ Architect Tadeusz Sudol of the Roosevelt Island Visual Art Association (RIVAA) believes that there could be a New Museum of Technology, Art and Science (MOOTAS) on Roosevelt Island as well. A RIVAA Gallery exhibition has just [...]
Through a Pinhole: Photographing Sri Lanka’s Architectural Heritage
New York, N.Y. I met an incredible individual, Liz Doles, who also happens to be a talented artist last week at the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the U.N. We bonded immediately. Having been off-and-on in Sri Lanka (and Indonesia) for a number of years working with orphans following the 2004 Tsunami, I had [...]
Schomburg Center in New York Relaunches First Fridays
Harlem, New York. The First Friday evening of each month, rain or shine, from 6 pm to 8pm the popular social gathering has returned. As you enter the center, guests are encouraged to take a self-guided tour of the museum. One can explore the exhibition gallery, The most popular for the evening was the Langston [...]
Mother-Daughter Duo Sketch 888 Taiwanese Faces
New York, N.Y. – I met the most amazing mother-daughter duo the other week. Americans, they were speaking at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York (TECO-NY). They were explaining to an appreciative crowd of mostly Americans and Chinese how they had spent four months recently on the Isle of Formosa, sketching and [...]
Film on Haitian Art: In the Eye of the Spiral
New York, N.Y. The Haitian Cultural Foundation (HCF) has just released its nine-minute trailer for its upcoming film Dans l’oeil de la Spirale — In the Eye of the Spiral. If the film is only half as brilliant as the trailer, Haitian art will finally find its seat at the international table of culture where it belongs. Knowing both many [...]
Fountain House Stands Up to Mental Illness
New York, N.Y. I thought I knew charity events, but I was not prepared for the magnitude of the recent Fountain House symposium and luncheon in the Grand Ballroom of The Pierre that raised over one million dollars for a premier New York City mental health program. I was riveted by the professionals who spoke on ‘The Changing [...]
