Crazy Art Film Screening & Dialogue
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
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…