INSIDE PROJECT
a presentation of art, film and dance created by and with artists at the Mental Wellness Center
June 25 - July 6 at the RED BARN PROJECT SPACE GALLERY IN ISLA VISTA
OPENING RECEPTION JUNE 29, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Everything is holy! everybody’s holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman’s an angel!
The bum’s as holy as the seraphim! the madman is holy as you my soul are holy!
- Allen Ginsberg, “Footnote to Howl”
Are we the insiders learning from the outsider or the outsiders seeking the inside? Who is allowed into the communities, constructed, created, and circled with known and unknown people and places? I would like to become a member of the sacred spaces, where secrets are revealed by forgotten tongues, discarded races, and weather-worn foreheads wrinkled bone dry from the beating sun. The homeless Chumash sound the bugle, the crippled and addicted, and the incarcerated tell the tale if you can hear the the story of a mad world, shaking like leaves and hounded by love.
The insider, the outsider, inner thoughts or external presentation, intimate spaces and outside vulnerabilities reveal cultural realities recognizing that mental illness is a community matter affecting all of us. The Fellowship Club is a day program offered by the Mental Wellness Center in downtown Santa Barbara that provides learning groups, activities, supported employment, and daily meals for adults living with serious mental illness. Over the course of three months, Stephanie and I led weekly creative practices workshops with participants from the Fellowship Club to address the subject of inclusion and safe spaces through mediation, embodiment, creative expression, and exchange of ideas. Through our time spent generating creative practices this collection of art works, videos and artifacts surfaced: a visual art exhibition that challenges ideas of insider vs. outsider and stigmas in the mental health community.
This project has been supported the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and Mental Wellness Center of Santa Barbara. We would like to specially thank the manager of the Fellowship Club Nick Papageorge, the resident art instructor Brendan Murdock, and incredible staff at the Mental Wellness Center along with the Moxi Museum, Marco Pinter, CAW, Riccardo Morrison/The Summer Solstice Workshop, and Diane Mackenzie for their artistic contributions to this project.
June 25 - July 6 at the RED BARN PROJECT SPACE GALLERY IN ISLA VISTA
OPENING RECEPTION JUNE 29, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Everything is holy! everybody’s holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman’s an angel!
The bum’s as holy as the seraphim! the madman is holy as you my soul are holy!
- Allen Ginsberg, “Footnote to Howl”
Are we the insiders learning from the outsider or the outsiders seeking the inside? Who is allowed into the communities, constructed, created, and circled with known and unknown people and places? I would like to become a member of the sacred spaces, where secrets are revealed by forgotten tongues, discarded races, and weather-worn foreheads wrinkled bone dry from the beating sun. The homeless Chumash sound the bugle, the crippled and addicted, and the incarcerated tell the tale if you can hear the the story of a mad world, shaking like leaves and hounded by love.
The insider, the outsider, inner thoughts or external presentation, intimate spaces and outside vulnerabilities reveal cultural realities recognizing that mental illness is a community matter affecting all of us. The Fellowship Club is a day program offered by the Mental Wellness Center in downtown Santa Barbara that provides learning groups, activities, supported employment, and daily meals for adults living with serious mental illness. Over the course of three months, Stephanie and I led weekly creative practices workshops with participants from the Fellowship Club to address the subject of inclusion and safe spaces through mediation, embodiment, creative expression, and exchange of ideas. Through our time spent generating creative practices this collection of art works, videos and artifacts surfaced: a visual art exhibition that challenges ideas of insider vs. outsider and stigmas in the mental health community.
This project has been supported the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and Mental Wellness Center of Santa Barbara. We would like to specially thank the manager of the Fellowship Club Nick Papageorge, the resident art instructor Brendan Murdock, and incredible staff at the Mental Wellness Center along with the Moxi Museum, Marco Pinter, CAW, Riccardo Morrison/The Summer Solstice Workshop, and Diane Mackenzie for their artistic contributions to this project.