Mental Health Project/ Fifth Annual SoHo Art Auction
NPN is proud to support our friends at The Mental Health Project of the Urban Justice Center with their Fifth Annual SoHo Art Auction on Wednesday, March12, 2008, from 6-9 p.m. at Poltrona Frau, 145 Wooster Street (between Princeand Houston). All proceeds will support the Mental Health Project's advocacy for low-income and homeless New Yorkers with mental illness.
The Mental Health Project helps low-income New Yorkers with psychiatric disabilities break the devastating cycle of homelessness, hospitalization and incarceration and regain stability and independence.To find the people who need them most, The Mental Health Project goes to jails, psychiatric units,and shelters. They focus on essentials such as food, housing, medical care, and disability benefits. They work to discover gaps in the safety net and educate.organize, and litigate to close them.
Contributing artists include Richard Serra, Nan Goldin, Anders Goldfarb, Dina Bursztyn, Eric Pelka, Christopher Colvin, Kate Temple, Michael Lorenzini, Kate Temple, Laura Lienhard, and many more.
Preview Art and Bid Online You know you don't have to be a New Yorker to bid on this art work.
Learn about NPN's similar project with our ArtWorks : Creative Industries Project where we are exploring ahead-of-the-curve business creation for artists with disabilities with new concepts in microloan funding and creative and sustaining use of the Social Security work incentives to fund self-employment for artists with disabilities. We are learning that art can offer significant opportunity for self-support for people with disabilities.
