Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Boston Ronald McDonald House

Art Placements: 2010

Boston Ronald McDonald House
Boston Ronald McDonald House provides a home away from home for families and children age 0-21 being treated for cancer. Donated art will hang in their entry, living room, teen area, and hallways to provide comfort to their guests by improving the facility. While on face value the artwork will create a welcoming environment for guests, more than the aesthetic qualities, it will be inspirational for patients and their families and provide a meaningful dialogue for many topics through its diversity of thought, experience, and culture.

For more information, please visit: www.ronaldmcdonaldhouseboston.org



Artists: Koech, McKay, Aly, Baker, Hawe, Carter, Anonymous, Clave, Elkin, Gilman, Maisel, Nartonis, Putterman, Sewall, Shallbetter, Silber, Tull

The Institute for Health and Recovery

Art Placements: 2010

The Institute for Health & Recovery
The Institute for Health and Recovery serves young adults (18-24) in recovery from substance abuse. This project, located in South Boston, offers a variety of services and activities to assist young adults at all stages of treatment and recovery. Staff works to create a safe and empowering community through individual counseling, relapse prevention, group counseling, home and community based services, case management, education and employment assistance, and service linkages and referrals. Donated art will hang in the entry, main group area, and conference room to demonstrate the amazing power of creativity and foster freedom from limitations. The art enhances their desire to cultivate a place that is colorful so that participants feel good about coming to the program, proud to be a part of the community, and be inspired to be free from a life of addiction and wonder about a life of possibilities.

For more information, please visit: www.healthrecovery.org



Artists: Aly, Brackett, Burko, Evans, Hodes, Hughes, Dumont, Miller-Havens, Moss, Pratt, Rizzo, Silverman, Smith, Jacques

Malden YWCA

Art Placements: 2009

YWCA Malden Center for Women & Families
YWCA Malden is a multi-service agency for women and their families with services including housing for low-income single women, affordable after school childcare, teen leadership through civic engagement, and workforce placement for parenting teens. Donated art will be displayed throughout the main building (entry, daycare area, teen rooms, hallways, etc) as well as in the women’s residence program. It will bring joy and inspiration to all who view it and be the first original art to grace their walls.

For more information, please visit: www.ywcamalden.org



Artists: Laracuente, Gilman, Guthrie, Hungate, Hyde, Kupferman, Maisel, McGregor-Radin, Miller, Putterman, Ritz, Silverman, Termini, Wurzel

Boston Community Capital

Art Placements: 2001, 2003, 2010

Boston Community Capital
Boston Community Capital (BCC) finances and invests in building healthy communities where low-income people live and work by providing financial assistance and advice to nonprofit organizations, small businesses, and individuals. They recently opened a new office to assist clients in foreclosure and advise community members about affordable refinancing options. Donated art will be displayed in their new office to help ease the tension already felt by the clients.

For more information, please visit: www.bostoncommunitycapital.org



Artists: Fadumo, Hodes, Hyde, Lianko, Makin, Miller-Havens, Roth, Safarikova, Ansayre

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

St. Francis House

Art Placements: 2007, 2008, 2010

St. Francis House
St. Francis House was established in 1984 in a response to a lack of day time support and services to Boston’s poor and homeless population. As the largest day shelter in New England, they provide their guests with a safe, warm, and inviting environment. Donated art will hang in the atrium, housing resource center, counseling waiting area, Next Step transition housing program, library, day center, and Moving Ahead Program (MAP) to improve the appearance in these areas of major guest activity and to inspire and comfort guests. In turn, it is hoped that the guests will feel more welcomed and increase their feelings of self worth.

For more information, please visit: www.stfrancishouse.org



Artists: Arch, Kontoff Baker, Beck, Smith Brackett, Bragen, Butler, Ewen, Hass Feldman, Fields, Franklin, Ginsberg-Place, Hodes, Kilbridge, Kupferman, LaMont, Makin, Mizrahi, Nickerson, Rich, Roth, Ann Rothschild, Schwalb, Termini, Tull, Wainwright, Weisberg, Whitman

Lowell Community Health Center

Art Placements: 2008, 2009

Lowell Community Health Center
Lowell Community Health Center provides primary care and behavioral health services to residents of the Greater Lowell area, targeting individuals who are medically underserved, uninsured, and low income. Poverty, cultural factors and language issues limit access to quality health care for many members of the Greater Lowell community, particularly recent refugees and immigrants. Due the range and complexity of these issues, LCHC's patients suffer from a lack of primary and preventative care, are more likely to suffer from depression or other mental health conditions, and often present with extraordinarily complicated conditions compared to the general public. At our Warren Street location, which house Family Practice, Women's Services, and Prenatal Services, donated works of art help us provide a welcoming, positive, and uplifting space for the many patients we will serve each year. Since the visual arts represent an international language, donated works of art speak volumes, making our patients feel welcome, comfortable, and inspired.

For more information, please visit: www.lchealth.org



Artists: Smith Brackett, Lincoln, Greenwell Clapp, Ginsberg-Place, Guthrie, Hause, Hughes, Hungate, Hyde, Jacobson-Zamore, Kupferman, Miller, Monacelli, Nartonis, Putterman, Roth, Shallbetter, Silber, Silverstein, Speter, Tan, Termini, Tondro, Wainwright, Sayre Wiseman

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Asian American Civic Association

Art Placements: 2009, 2010

Asian American Civic Association
The Asian American Civic Association (AACA) was originally established to meet the social and cultural needs of first and second generation Chinese immigrants, but has now evolved into Boston’s premier workforce development, adult basic education, and comprehensive social service center to help economically disadvantaged and limited English speaking immigrants achieve enduring economic self sufficiency. In 2007, AACA moved into a new building, the first building owned by the agency in its 41 year history. Donated art will hang in the entryway, waiting areas, conference room, classrooms, and hallways to add color, texture, style, dimension, and dialogue to their space.

For more information, please visit: www.aaca-boston.org



Artists: Angelil, Asch, Bataclan, Bradford, Carter, Doo, Ekstrom, Guthrie, Hungate, Kupferman, Lianko, Lobosco, Anonymous, Miller, Nartonis, Nickerson, Sewall, Shapero, Silber, Silverman, Sky, Termini, Wallace

VNA Hospice Care

Art Placements: 2008, 2009

Visiting Nurse Association Hospice Care
VNA Hospice Care has a mission to provide care, comfort, and compassion to patients and families facing the challenges of life-limiting illness. Care is coordinated among a team of clinicians and support takes many forms: medical, physical, emotional, and practical. Donated art will hang in the agency’s reception area, hallways, and meeting rooms offering a more pleasing environment to the staff and volunteers who work tirelessly 7 days a week to provide services to patients and their loved ones, as well as those attending bereavement support groups on site. Donated art will also help bring a greater sense of peace and well being to all those accessing the space.

For more information, please visit: www.hospicecarema.org



Artists: Arena, Beck, Bradford, Bragen, Nairn, Fildman, Gilman, Grossman, Hanlon, Kupferman, Putterman, Ritz, Roth, Safarikova, Sewall, Shapero, Silverstein, Termini

Toward Independent Living & Learning (TILL) - Billerica

Art Placements: 2009

Toward Independent Living & Learning (TILL), Inc.
Toward Independent Living and Learning’s mission is to develop and operate innovative services for individuals of all ages and abilities which maximize their potential for personal growth and independent living. TILL’s day habilitation center in Billerica serves over 40 individuals and helps them be as productive as possible by focusing on their abilities rather than their disabilities and offering work training and other services to the community. Environments for people with disabilities has historically been viewed as being only spaces which are functional and therefore little emphasis is placed upon the details. Donated art will hang in the entry, community rooms, hallways, and meeting rooms to demonstrate the pride TILL instills in their staff and clients with regard to enjoying beauty in their surroundings. They will enhance the environment aesthetically as well as encourage one to see color, form, and shapes in ways which they would not typically view in their surroundings.

For more information, please visit: www.tillinc.org



Artists: Smith Brackett, Ryan, Clave, Evans, Hyde, Klarer, Makin, Partoll, Putterman, Schwalb, Shapero, Termini, Trindade, Williams

Elder Services Plan of North Shore

Art Placements: 2009

Elder Services Plan of North Shore
Elders visit the Elder Services of North Shore's PACE sites regularly for their health care and for social engagement. We are striving to make these areas more visually appealing, even comforting. Donated art will make a large difference for the staff, clients and their caregivers. For some of our clients it could be the only access to this type of culture they get.

For more information, please visit: www.pacenorthshore.org



Artists: Barylick, Smith Brackett, Jane Bradford, Cook, Grossman, Hodes, Hungate, Jacobson-Zamore, Kupferman, Miller, Nartonis, Sewall, Rony, Wurzel