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

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Online Pepsi Grant Competition Blues

Oh my word... what have I gotten myself into?

I am competing online against huge organizations with tons of followers.  This grant would be huge for the project and I am doing my best to promote it, but mostly I just feel like I am going to irritate everyone around me screaming..  "VOTE, VOTE for me, VOTE again." 

There is no way I will be able to do this for 27 more days straight.  I am ranked #60 today, but will need to be in the top 10 to get funded..

I believe in what I am doing and am willing to go to great lengths to help those around me heal, but self-promotion is not my strength.  I need a new strategy to get the word out other than me yammering about it all day online and irritating people on facebook.

I wish money didn't matter.  And it rained chocolate covered espresso beans.  And that I wore a size 2, but that isn't ever gonna happen.   Well, maybe I should have a snack and some coffee and quit whining about it and get back to calling, emailing, facebooking etc, until people get the word out.

VOTE at www.refresheverything.com/recoverypanes  pass it on.
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