by Art Saves Lives | Apr 1, 2025 | Art Saves Lives, Blog
Seeing her in the gallery, I moved to stand / in her presence. Instantaneous connection / with the face on the canvas amplified the / disconnect with the one in my mirror. I have long been fascinated by artists and their art, but believed I was incapable of creation....
by Rob Haney | Mar 30, 2025 | Blog, Events
Now a monthly MissionBelonging Program! Used to play an instrument but it’s been a long time? Always wanted to try to learn an instrument or write a song, but not sure where to start? Join cellist and composer Wytold at 3:30 PM Eastern Time on the first Monday of each...
by Art Saves Lives | Mar 9, 2025 | Art Saves Lives, Blog
I sat cross-legged on a curb in the middle of New Jersey in the middle of the 1970s and wrote a poem about despair. I was fourteen, it was humid and windless, and I was waiting outside my father’s girlfriend’s apartment to go home where my father and I had barricaded...
by Art Saves Lives | Feb 1, 2025 | Art Saves Lives, Blog
Usually, I am one to find the thread of dark humor even in the worst of circumstances. But I found myself at a loss. I had been increasingly depressed and anxious since a confluence of world and family events descended, including family deaths and friends’ severe...
by Art Saves Lives | Jan 2, 2025 | Art Saves Lives, Blog
For most of my life, I could not bear my own face. Though I would recognize what I saw in the mirror as familiar, I did not feel it was mine. What I did feel was that it was wrong. I was raised like a prisoner on an island that most consider a paradise. My parents...
