Art as Medicine Celebrated Tonight (original) (raw)

Benefit Thu Jun 02 2011

TheArtTrade presents ArtFutura 2011 from TheArtTrade on Vimeo.

If you've got this evening free, consider heading downtown for the Art Futura Awards Party.

Art Futura is a small yearly exhibition (in its 9th year with attendance growing to 300 last year) connecting artists and art therapy patients -- blending the best of both worlds. It is a great cause that helps the community of emerging artists who submit work and the work of art therapists who help support over 100 patients as they try to rebuild their lives after spinal cord, brain, and stroke injuries.

The Art Futura website has a collection of inspirational profiles of the artists in the exhibition for you to check out, as well as more information about tonight's benefit, which caters to a younger audience than most events of this type -- this is for people who want to be engaged and may just be starting to get into charitable causes.