<em>Crazy Art</em> Film Screening & Dialogue

Crazy Art Film Screening & Dialogue

Arts & Humanities Hall, Recital Hall, CCBC Essex
7201 Rossville Blvd, Baltimore MD, 21237
October 17, 2015, 5:00 - 7:00pm

Part of the New Day Campaign 2015 Film Series, and shown in conjunction with Touched with Fire: Behind the Curtain at CCBC Essex, Crazy Art (2009) is a compelling, revealing examination of the therapeutic relationship between art and mental illness. Following the screening, Dina Fiasconaro hosts a conversation with artists whose work is included in the Campaign's Touched with Fire exhibition series. A reception follows in the gallery immediately after the screening and conversation.

This event was part of the 2015 Film Series

Sponsor: Thank you to an anonymous film series sponsor

Touched with Fire: Behind the Curtain

This event took place in conjunction with the exhibition Touched with Fire: Behind the Curtain

The theme draws its name from the groundbreaking 1996 book Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, by renowned psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison. The same driving discomfort leading to substance misuse and desperate…

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