Self-portrait by Elisif Bruun.
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 behaviors also may yield extraordinary creativity: grand gifts to the rest of us born of incomparable urgency. The exhibition Touched with Fire: Kristin & Elisif features works by two artists who died young, Kristin Rita Strouse and Elisif Bruun, whose journeys through creativity both illuminate and obscure their passages through mental illness and addiction.
Tuttle Gallery, St. John Building, McDonogh School
November 17, 2015, 5:30 - 7:00pm
Opening reception for an exhibition featuring works by two artists who died young, Kristin Rita Strouse and Elisif Janis Bruun, whose journeys through creativity illuminate and obscure their passages through mental illness and addiction.…
Klein Lyceum, McDonogh School
December 2, 2015, 7:00 - 8:30pm
In conjunction with the exhibition Touched with Fire: Kristin & Elisif, parents Sharon Strouse and Peter Bruun share insights from their own hard-earned wisdom from the loss of their daughters for school communities that can make them safer,…