Recovery Panes: March 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, March 9, 2011

Recovery Panes at City Hall!

As of yesterday, Recovery Panes is up and showing for the next month on the 2nd floor of City Hall!

Kelly gave testimony this morning at the State of the Arts address, explaining how organizations like RACC make these kinds of creative healing projects possible, and how important these projects truly are. Once again, we'd all like to thank RACC and City Council for all the incredible support we've been given throughout this process! Be sure to stop by City Hall and see the installation sometime this month--new catalogs have been printed and they're gorgeous!