Artists Touched by Addiction

JUNIPER RAG has partnered with Spectrum Health Systems, Inc., a leading nonprofit organization providing a comprehensive continuum of addiction treatment and behavioral health services to assemble an art collection to be displayed on the walls of the beautiful new treatment facility on Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The depth and overwhelming response to this collection has been wonderful and continues to grow, which is further proof of the healing powers of art, community and storytelling to bring us all together.

New Terrain: 21st-Century Landscape Photography, opening this Saturday, April 6, 2024, from 7-9 pm.

New Terrain was developed by Nancy Kathryn Burns, Stoddard Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at Worcester Art Museum. The reviewing collection explores technology, identity, political activism, and history through concepts of the landscape. The work embraces 21st Century thinking and focuses on complex processes of photography and conceptual art-making.

For Worcester, this was our sixth Slow Art Day, held on April 16 at The White Room Gallery in Worcester, Massachusetts. The event was hosted by Payal Thiffault and Michelle May of Juniper Rag magazine, who are tow of the founding hosts from the very first Slow Art experiment of 2009. An in-person event was organized and the invitation was also extended to artists, whose work was on exhibition at TORRID | Abstract Impressions.

Don Hartmann is a figurative artist with a very colorful life who carries a vintage suitcase full of color crayons. He is always surrounded by laughter and artful conversations — talk of poetry or music, like Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Sex Pistols or a little Replacements.

Drana with blue suit, beautiful period attire, vitreous enamel added on steel daguerreotype (re-contextualized)
All images © Jennifer Davis Carey, photographed by Michelle May

Connecting is our jam.

Luis Antonio Fraire V.3 Curator of Juniper Rag