photo by Samantha Stidham

What is Recovery Panes?

Recovery Panes is a multi-phase community project involving those who have been impacted by addiction. Participants created a small encaustic painting representative of their personal experience, strength and hope. The complex elements of encaustic wax uniquely allowed a symbolic and cathartic exploration of their experiences. Participants also shared a short, written response to the process which is paired with their art in an accompanying catalogue



All individual paintings are joined to form a larger work, framed and presented to resemble large windows with each painting representing a single windowpane. The art is interactive- the individual panels are mounted on magnets, allowing the viewers to rearrange the paintings, symbolizing our need to change our perspective and move towards de-stigmatizing addiction.

Both the Recovery Panes and the accompanying catalogue will be shown at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts through March of 2012.

A reception will be held on Thursday, February 2nd, 5pm-9pm, to celebrate both Recovery Panes and 'Come to Your Senses', a showcase of encaustic paintings by local artists

Monday, March 22, 2010

Let the workshops begin

I am gonna try to pull together a workshop this week.  Eventually, I will try to have one a week for people to attend in order to make their panels for the project.  Maybe even an occasional Saturday workshop too.  I will need to keep up this pace for close to 6 months in order to have enough panels to complete the project the way I have it envisioned.

Hopefully, enough people will vote on the Pepsi site (www.refresheverything.com) throughout April and I will get the funding I need.  This way the whole project can be free to everyone so I won't have to spend energy fund raising anymore.  Instead I can spend my time doing the workshops, outreach and education.

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