Recovery Panes: January 2011

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

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Final Paperwork Submitted!

As of today, our final paperwork has been submitted to RACC! This is really exciting for us...we have been feverishly working away on spreadsheets and finalizing reports for quite a while now and the tedious part is OVER! Now we can just sit back and enjoy the ride as Recovery Panes goes to City Hall and hopefully further...

Again, we would like to thank the Regional Arts and Culture Council, Beth Earnest Real Estate, Reynolds Optical, p:ear, and the countless other people and organizations that made this project possible. Thank you all so much, and we hope to see you at future exhibitions of Recovery Panes!

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

City Hall

I've been nailing down dates and times with City Hall. Looks like they not only want the Recovery Panes Project installed in the Atrium during the annual State of the Arts Council, but they have asked me to 'testify' at the Council as well. As much as I talk, and talk, and talk... the thought of speaking is a bit un-nerving.