The New Day Campaign’s 2015 exhibitions shared and illuminated art and stories that built compassion and generated understanding. Art is used as a humanizing antidote to prevailing dismissive attitudes, bringing people in as little else can — and once in, people can learn new truths about mental illness and addiction, and cultivate accepting and compassionate attitudes toward those who suffer.
Eubie Blake Cultural Center
October 1 - October 31, 2015
People & Places: A Primer presents profiles of people with mental illness and addiction, and the people and places that care for them. While not a comprehensive survey, this exhibition offers, in sample-platter style, a range of good things…
Jubilee Arts
October 3 - October 31, 2015
How do we make our communities more healing places? What ails us now? Who are we as a community, and how do we create a place of love? These are the driving questions behind an exploration of Sandtown-Winchester, whose residents—as with every…
Art Gallery, Arts & Humanities Hall, CCBC Essex
October 5 - November 20, 2015
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…
Rosenberg Gallery, MICA
October 7 - October 25, 2015
What pain looks like when one is suffering with mental illness or addiction, or affected by a loved one’s hurting, and what flows from that pain. How might we find a place of compassion to become part of the solution rather than contributing to…
BlueGreen Acupuncture & Bodywork
October 15 - December 1, 2015
A selection of works by Yumi Hogan displayed in a community healing space, this intimate exhibition explores the relationship between art and mindfulness, and mindfulness and art-making. Ten drawings dispersed throughout this community of healers…
Art Gallery, Stevenson University
October 15 - December 15, 2015
An exhibition by Peter Bruun about his daughter, Elisif Bruun, who died of a heroin overdose at age 24 on February 11, 2014. Featuring drawings by Peter along with audio from friends, family, caring professionals, and others reflecting on Elisif’s…
Art Gallery, College Community Center, CCBC Dundalk
October 19 - December 4, 2015
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…
Cary Beth Cryor Gallery, Coppin State University
October 25 - December 4, 2015
An exhibition featuring art from four communities addressing the role of love when mental health challenges are at play. Clients of Mosaic Community Services, Make Studio and On Our Own Baltimore exhibit works, alongside art by Coppin State…
The Institute for Integrative Health
October 29 - November 19, 2015
A long-established but undervalued practice, art therapy tends to be viewed as a marginalized practice in both art worlds and clinical worlds. This exhibition, co-curated by Isa Gonzalez and Peggy Kolodny, shines an illuminating light on several…
New Beginnings Barbershop & Gallery
November 1 - December 31, 2015
What Love Looks Like: Sisters portrays a relationship between sisters touched by mental illness, addiction, death, and love. The exhibition illuminates what is gained from empathy and connection rather than stigmatization and separation— the…
Hamilton Gallery
November 6 - November 29, 2015
How do we make our communities more healing places? What ails us now? Who are we as a community, and how do we find a place of love? These are the driving questions behind an exploration of Hamilton/Lauraville, a community that—as with every…
GALLERY CA
November 6 - November 30, 2015
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…
Tuttle Gallery, St. John Building, McDonogh School
November 12 - December 18, 2015
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…
MICA PLACE
November 13 - December 14, 2015
Portrayals of loving relationships and reflections on love when challenged by mental illness, addiction, and life issues: examples of compassion in a world of judgment, blame, and dismissal. The exhibition illuminates what is gained from empathy and…
Area 405
November 14 - December 20, 2015
What pain looks like when one is suffering with mental illness or addiction, or affected by a loved one’s hurting, and what flows from that pain. How might we find a place of compassion to become part of the solution rather than contributing to…
Gallery 788
December 3 - December 31, 2015
Love Is a Wild Horse illuminates love in its many ways, shapes, and forms when challenged by behavioral health conditions, sharing what is gained from empathy and connection rather than stigmatization and separation—the benefit of "us" versus "us…