Art Restart Salon: Creative, Vulnerable and Well
Join the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts for its Fall Art Restart Salon on Wednesday, Sept. 1, at 7:00 p.m. Eastern. The salon, "Creative, Vulnerable and Well," will feature an honest discussion about personal psychological challenges artists have faced and the strategies they have developed to maintain their mental wellness.
Salon Guests:
Catalina (CATAPHANT) Bellizzi-Itiola is a San Diego-based visual artist, activist, educator, muralist and designer who creates highly textured, mixed-media abstract paintings based on her experiences with spirituality and mental illness.
Frank Horvat is an award-winning multi-genre composer and pianist who explores a wide array of themes in his music from love to the environment, mental health and social justice issues.
Boston native Cliff Notez is an award-winning, multi–digital media artist, musician, entrepreneur, and filmmaker whose art is a continuous exploration of the Black mind.
Stephanie Cartwright is the Clinical Director for UNCSA's Counseling Services. She supports students during various developmental stages throughout their high school and college careers.
Moderator:
Moderator Tara Rynders is an interdisciplinary dance and video artist who has been a registered nurse for sixteen years. She is an Advanced Certified Grief Recovery Specialist and the founder and artistic director of The Clinic, an arts and play-based company that provides workshops, performances and research around burnout and secondary traumatic stress.
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The Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts’ “Artist as Leader” interview series and podcast has proved that artists are among the most nimble and resourceful leaders in our communities. The tumultuous events of the year 2020 made us want to build on this knowledge, while shifting the focus of interviews to more urgently plumb artists’ innate capacity for creative problem-solving. In our new podcast, “Art Restart,” we’ll explore how artists are reinventing their fields and building a new landscape for the arts.
The first season of Art Restart will focus specifically on the lessons of the year 2020.
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