Celebrate The Healing Power of ART: 07/01/2011

Welcome! The purpose of "Celebrate The Healing Power of ART", founded by Renee Phillips, Director of Manhattan Arts International, is to Promote ART and all aspects of CREATIVITY and its vital importance to healing individuals and the planet. We believe that when Artists create healing Art they not only experience a healing process within themselves, their Art also has a healing impact on viewers.

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Monday, July 25, 2011

Artful Random Acts of Kindness

Ways to Be A Happier Artist!
By Renee Phillips, The Artrepreneur Coach

In his book 'Power of Intention' Dr. Wayne Dyer explains that people who practice random acts of kindness, the people who receive them, and even those who obverve this process receive a rush of serotonin flowing in their bodies.

Yes, kindness can be considered a happiness drug that also will help your immune system. The release of endorphins makes people happy and the effects can be long lasting.

As an artist you can perform small gestures that will make a big difference in another person's life. Here are a few Artful Random Acts of Kindness. They require just a few minutes to do and most of them are free.

1. Post a link to another artist's website with words of praise on your facebook page.

2. Write a recommendation for another art professional you know on LinkedIn.

3. Give away some books you've read (and eliminate some clutter on your bookshelf!)

4. Buy a dual membership at a museum and share it with a fellow art lover.

5. Call a gallery on your artist friend's behalf and recommend they seriously consider your friend's work.

6. Share a link to an art and business article with a friend who could use some helpful advice. Start here with this blog or the Manhattan Arts International Reading Room at http://www.manhattanarts.com

7. Share this resource with an artist friend: The International Museum of Women http://imow.org/home/index is accepting submissions from artists, filmmakers, photographers, musicians, writers of any media type for its new online exhibition, “Your Voices: On Motherhood”.

If you have any good suggestions for artful random acts of kindness please post them here!

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

The Healing Power of Art Resources

Vision, Passion & Purpose: Artists as World Changers

This book includes more than 100 artists who are positive, proactive, and active in their community.

It is a collection of stories from artists who have come to my attention since I started curating "The Healing Power of Art" exhibitions beginning in 2002.

These Artists have either started programs for social change, have turned tragedy to triumph, are helping others heal through art programs, are involved with arts advocacy, arts leadership, charitable deeds, and so much more!

The book also contains a Resource Section with a wealth of information including:

The Arts & Healing Network
The Arts & Healing Network www.artheals.org was founded by Marion Weber, artist and philanthropist, in 1997. It is an online resource celebrating the connection between art and healing, serving as an international resource for anyone interested in the healing potential of art, particularly artists, health care practitioners, and those challenged by illness. The site includes more than a thousand links to various art and healing projects, artists, funding options, and other resources, including book reviews and interviews with leaders in the field of art and healing. Its site produces an online publication, a podcast series, and an annual award.

The Society for the Arts in Healthcare
SAH, www.thesah.org, is a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation in Washington, DC. Founded in 1991, the Society for the Arts in Healthcare is dedicated to advancing arts as integral to healthcare. The Society's membership includes over 1,700 professionals, students, and organizations in the arts, humanities, and medicine. Its Artist Registry features more than 100 artists and connects an international network of artists, art consumers, and curators through documentation and showcasing of artistic excellence in healthcare.

Arts for Healing
Arts for Healing, www.artsforhealing.org/, is a unique, nurturing community-based center that helps people with learning and developmental disabilities improve the quality of their lives through music and creative arts therapy.

Foundation For Art & Healing
The mission of the Foundation For Art & Healing, http://www.artandhealing.org founded by Dr. Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH, is to use its position as a “bridge” to create and expand general awareness about art and healing, to bring forward through research and related explorations criti-cal knowledge about art and healing and the relationship between them, and to help make this knowledge available at the individual and community level.

Healing Farms
Healing Farms Retreat and Integrated Recovery Services Inc. aka Healing Farms, http://healingfarms.org, is a non profit corporation founded by Andre L. Beaudoin in August of 2007 and sanctioned by the IRS as a 501(c)3 Public Charity. Our purpose is to provide the combined power of all healing practices and modalities to anyone who needs them.

To read more about the book visit http://bit.ly/artistsinspire

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The Reiki Digest: Call for entries! the Reiki Digest's first online art show: Reiki, Healing and Art

Opportunity for Artists who practice Reiki
The Reiki Digest: Call for entries! the Reiki Digest's first online art show: Reiki, Healing and Art

I learned about this wonderful opportunity for Artists who are also Reiki practitioners from artist Pamela Turczyn

P.C. Turczyn, Infinite Surrender. Artwork is copyright protected by the artist. All rights reserved. Do not copy image without the artist's permission. To view more of P.C.'s work visit http://www.pcturczyn.com.

Thank you Pamela!

Words of Inspiration

"Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery."
~ Florence Nightingale

"In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?"
~ Ivor Stravinsky

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
~ Michelangelo

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of every day life."
~ Pablo Picasso

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works: if from the head, almost nothing." ~ Marc Chagall

"Art is not a thing but a Moving Spirit." ~ George Innes

"'Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea."
~ Ben Nicholson

"Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies."
~ Paul Klee

"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love." ~ Marc Chagall

"A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis." ~ Hans Hofmann

"I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene." ~ Grandma Moses

"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see." ~ Paul Klee

"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity." ~ Julia Cameron

"Creativity advances through works that bring about the artists' continuing self-creating." ~ Garry Wills

"Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way."
~ Albert Einstein

"Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in bed for both." ~ Eric Maisel

"It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves." ~ Oscar Wilde

"Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference."
~ Josef Albers

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." ~ Frances Bacon

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." ~ Andre Gide

"An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art."
~ Lee Simonson

Inspiring Quotes by Artists

The Universe, this planet and every plant and animal life force upon it survives on one overriding principle - the 'CREATIVE' principle. Human artistic endeavour is Nature's highest form of this principle. It is always in direct contrast to human sickness and destruction. Our physical,intellectual and spiritual progress is founded on this fact. If we do not create - we suffer and die!
~ Keith Morant

"My Art work is inspired by giving a voice to children who have been abused that do not have a voice. The art I do addresses the silence around sexual abuse that allows the perpetrator to continue. I also believe that the artist and the viewer enter into a mutual healing process as the art is made and looked at. Art is able to contravene our belief system and hit us in our emotions with a visceral reaction. This reaction can then affect the individuals thoughts and awareness which can then change societal norms. Silence is not golden."
~ Linda Litteral

"My creativity centres mostly around seeing/feeling/exploring the tension, the power and the passion in and between firmness and dissolution, structure and creative chaos, between immobility and movement, lightness and weight. To feel the challenge in the visualization, the watching and a wish to see behind, beyond the artistic expression. I think it is about challenging your visualization, re-evaluing, overthrowing, setting the room into rotation and seeing if something new appears and allowing the artistic expression to work outside its known context."
~ Gunilla Lofgren

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