ARTISTS
Healing Arts! Work From The Archives Of Healing Arts Initiative
This exhibition is drawn from these archival holdings and focuses on the legacy of H.A.I.鈥檚 long- running visual art programs, which for over forty years fostered and provided support to an extraordinary community of mostly self-taught artists based in New York City, many of whom were elderly or living with physical or developmental disabilities. H.A.I.鈥檚 programs for artists began as workshops for individuals living in private proprietary adult homes (PPHAs), and it was at these workshops in the late 1970s and early 1980s that Lady Shalimar Montague, Ray Hamilton, Irene Phillips and Rocco Fama, four of the earliest and now most widely-recognized H.A.I. artists, began to make art. Over time H.A.I.鈥檚 Arts Workshop program evolved to include the H.A.I. Studio & Gallery which provided artists with studio space, materials, exhibition opportunities, and 鈥� perhaps most crucially 鈥� a sense of community. Over its lifetime H.A.I. supported hundreds of artists including such now acknowledged figures as Melvin Way, Julius Caesar Bustamante, and Derrick Alexis Coard, among others.
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This exhibition is drawn from these archival holdings and focuses on the legacy of H.A.I.鈥檚 long- running visual art programs, which for over forty years fostered and provided support to an extraordinary community of mostly self-taught artists based in New York City, many of whom were elderly or living with physical or developmental disabilities. H.A.I.鈥檚 programs for artists began as workshops for individuals living in private proprietary adult homes (PPHAs), and it was at these workshops in the late 1970s and early 1980s that Lady Shalimar Montague, Ray Hamilton, Irene Phillips and Rocco Fama, four of the earliest and now most widely-recognized H.A.I. artists, began to make art. Over time H.A.I.鈥檚 Arts Workshop program evolved to include the H.A.I. Studio & Gallery which provided artists with studio space, materials, exhibition opportunities, and 鈥� perhaps most crucially 鈥� a sense of community. Over its lifetime H.A.I. supported hundreds of artists including such now acknowledged figures as Melvin Way, Julius Caesar Bustamante, and Derrick Alexis Coard, among others.
Artists on show
- Adeyinka Perry
- Carl Greenberg
- Derrick Alexis Coard
- Donna Caesar
- Donnell Murray
- Everette Ball
- Gaetana Menna
- George Knerr
- Irene Phillips
- Jenny Maruki
- José López
- Julius Caesar Bustamante
- Kenny McKay
- Lady Shalimar Montague
- Martha Cruz
- Melvin Way
- Mercedes Jamison
- Michael Peruggia
- Oscar Brown
- Paul Kordas
- Ray Hamilton
- Rocco Fama
- Roger Jones
- Thomas Hall
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