Phoenix House + Art of Advocacy Exhibition

This exhibition will show works created in the first year of a three-year SAMHSA Art of Advocacy grant "Building Communities of Recovery". Phoenix House is the ONLY grantee recipient to use the grant award for art, and now SAMHSA has announced its own 2024 Art of Recovery Project. We will show a short documentary alongside the works, which focuses on interviewing participants sharing their experience and artistic practices.

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NEW YORK, NY (06/20/2024) (readMedia)-- The work created by participants is shown not by each individual artist-led workshop, but instead interwoven with the uniqueness and diversity of the participants themselves. The body of work in this exhibition tells a larger continuing story of a community, the discussion of what recovery and wellness mean in our current moment.

We will not allow ourselves to be categorized by what we do not know. For individuals challenged by substance use disorders and related mental health conditions, creativity is an essential element in exploring surrender, the HOW (Honesty, Open-mindedness, and Willingness) of recovery.

Until we make the connection between all things, we have no way out of the isolation that often hunts us. How then to welcome the allure of the unknown? We simply don't go into the attic without a flashlight and a friend.

The weekly workshops brought marvelous interruptions, sublime interactions, and blissful intrusions. The Art of Advocacy program is a provider of healing subversions. Saori loom weaving, sculpting, wheel throwing, painting, mixed media design, photography, and puppet construction gave way to peer led creativity collectives who explored book binding, stuffed animal making, and flower pressing collage, all being shown at a full floor NYC Chelsea gallery, offering a new confidence and validation to our artists and their families. Two living sculptures will be created by participating artists 24hrs before the opening reception.

Come celebrate, revel, be inspired, by this grand intersection of human healing. There is no bystanding if you're here, you must change and will change all around you.

About Phoenix House:

Since 1967, Phoenix House New York has helped thousands of people overcome substance use disorders in order to lead healthy, productive, and rewarding lives. Phoenix House New York offers short-term and long-term residential, intensive outpatient, and general outpatient treatment. Phoenix House also offers treatment for co-occurring mental health disorders, medical, psychiatric, and dental services, and impaired driver programs. These services are designed to meet the individual needs of adults at various stages of recovery, including military personnel, and veterans. In addition, Phoenix House provides educational and supportive services to family members, friends, significant others, and the community.

WHAT: Building Communities of Recovery Grant: Art Exhibition of over 90 individuals in recovery

WHO: Phoenix House New York, Brooklyn Community Recovery Center, Art of Advocacy

WHEN: Friday, June 21st, 7 – 9pm Opening Reception, Saturday, June 22nd, 12 – 3pm open

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WHERE: 547 W 27th St, 4th Fl. New York, NY 10001