New Swift Gallery show brings attention to the perilous lives of birds…
The Guam Rail (depicted here) is extinct in the wild, but captive breeding programs are keeping hope alive for its eventual return to the wild. For the last decade, artist Stacie Birky Greene has been in a dialog with the nature of loss and hope. Inspired by a National Public Radio report in 2009, she began an epic,
Recovering the Artist: the 8th annual show at the Swift Shines a light on Recovery.
How did the Artist get lost? In life, most of us eventually face events that require a kind of absolute change in the nature of how we live, or think about life. But the loss of the artist is usually cultural. We have forgotten the time before diagnosis and drug therapy, and the reductionist labeling of
Love= Friendship = Love
-Judith Greer Essex, Ph.D., Director, Expressive Arts Institute Who is Your Valentine? The history of St. Valentine's Day is a messy mix of pagan and Christian celebrations. The old pagan festival of Lupercalia (which fell on February 15th) was a precursor and celebrated Faunus, the god of agriculture with animal sacrifice and blood rituals. The Christian Saint Valentine
Rebecca Unmasked
I feel like the work at McAlister Institute is the crowning glory of my career, and what I was born to do. What happens when your "Dream Job" becomes reality? We interview Institute Graduate Rebecca Lillywhite about the new job and new possibilities. Meet Rebecca Lillywhite. She just presented a show of 50+ masks, made by her clients at
Recovering The Artist 3: A Show about Art, Not Illness Opens May 2nd
May is Mental Health Month, and along with a time for celebration of the hard and successful work of recovery that continues daily, it is a time for art. A nine year tradition continues with the third Martha Pace Swift Recovering The Artist Show. This years show features work by many artists from the recovery community,