Opening Reception – Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 7pm

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

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The ArtRage Gallery and the CORA Foundation extend our thanks and appreciation to the law firm of Green & Seifter for
sponsoring our 2009-10 exhibit season!

Free to the Public

ArtRage and the Center for Bioethics and Humanities present a reading with authors from The Healing Muse, a collection of stories, essays, poetry, and visual art from all perspectives in health care.

Come contribute to ongoing dialogue on health practices in our community and listen to authors from this year’s Muse read and discuss their works. Copies of The Muse will be available for sale.

“Poets and doctors, nurses and artists, humanists all, will find their voices celebrated in its pages. It has grown to become an instrument of healing for our entire troubled culture.” —Rafael Campo, MD Harvard University

In our land, we have no home… Here, we are not welcome.

Directed by Gregory Nava

Escaping a tyrannical Guatemalan political regime, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez and David Villalpando, in their first film roles, are two indigenous youths who flee Guatemala in the early 1980s due to ethnic and political persecution. They risk all to come to America (El Norte), only to find it is not the “promised land” they envisioned.

El Norte received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1985, the first American independent film to be so honored. In 1995, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

“Lyrical…the definitive portrait of Latin-American workers in the United States” - filmcritic.com
“A great movie… romantic and poetic” - Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

$5 suggested donation
505 Hawley Avenue (at N. Crouse & Hawley)
ArtRage is handicapped accessible
Off street parking at 408 & 414 Lodi Street