ArtShare for HeartShare
ArtShare celebrated over 15 years with its latest show at the Clover’s Art Gallery, in May 2024. The exhibit showcased over 100 individual artists from our Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island programs.
This is just one of the many ways in which ArtShare manifests itself over the course of the year. Since its inception, ArtShare has opened up spaces for the creative voices of people with disabilities. Seen as more than just recipients of service and support, our benefactors shine as the artists that they are. They become the providers — of both art and enlightenment.
About
ArtShare
ArtShare has moved beyond its grassroots beginning and is a privately-funded, transformational program — touching almost all of the corners of HeartShare Human Services. The program holds space for people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities to discover, communicate and connect via creativity. Art as creative and expressive outlet is awash in mental health and attendant mind/body benefits that, particularly for those whose minds and bodies are taxed by disability, are decidedly consequential.
In-house teaching artists, external arts organizations, and NYC cultural institutions come together to help members of HeartShare Day Programs find and unleash their creative voice through paint, dance, weaving and more.
HeartShare subscribes to the belief that every person owns a story, its rights, and the right to voice it with or without words — and that our work carries a duty to reframe what constitutes voice, because theirs are voices for which society has traditionally held little or no space.
ArtShare gives them a platform.
Contact
For more information, contact
Will Green
Director of Arts Programming
will.green@heartshare.org
Amihan Ruiz
Arts Programming Assistant
amihan.ruiz@heartshare.org
Donate
I'd like to help HeartShare continue to help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities by giving them access to creativity.
ArtShare is made possible by generous grant support from The Taft Foundation, the Kennenth Goldman Donor Fund, and the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation.
The Co-Curators of ArtShare are: Barbara Nowak-Cuthel and Linda Tempel.