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Off the Walls: From the Arts of Recovery 2004

In this, the premier presentation of Off the Walls, we are featuring images from the Arts of Recovery 2004, collaborations in ink, paint and mixed media between artists living with mental illness and prominent contemporary artists, Louise Fishman, Barbara Bash, and Darrell Wilson. Images 1 to 5 are from Barbara Bash's workshop, Brush Spirit. Two people at a time came up to the stations while the rest witnessed. Bowing to each other, they picked up the large horsehair brushes, dipped them in ink and made a stroke, put the brushes down, bowing again to each. Images 6 to 9 are from Louise Fishman’s Exquisite Corpse workshop. In exhibition, these and other collaborations were combined to create three large constructions. Images 10 to 12 are from Darrell Wilson's workshop, Masks, in which cast plaster impressions of their own faces and embellished them with painted colors, collage, adornments and sculptural extensions. All photos by Marty Cohen.

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About Off the Walls
The Verrazano Foundation's online gallery, Off the Walls, exists to provide a venue through which artists living with serious mental illness can display their creativity to the world. Although art is often a wonderful therapeutic tool and can be used as a positive means of expressing and coping with many of life's problems, Off the Walls exists to help artists living with serious mental illness share their vision with others. It is hoped that it will soon be a vehicle through which they can sell their work as well.

If you are an artist living with mental illness and like to exhibit your work at Off the Walls, please send a brief autobiographical sketch describing your art work, your illness and your recovery, as well as a compact disk with up to 10 electronic images of your work which might be included in an exhibition. Please do not email images. Emailed images cannot be considered.

An honorarium of $50 will be paid to each artist whose work is exhibited at Off the Walls.

Send your submission to:

Off the Walls
The Verrazano Foundation
777 Seaview Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10305

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