Resilience

Editors Note: The artist reception scheduled for Feb 23rd has been postponed to Feb 28th due to weather. ❄️❄️❄️

What does resilience mean to you? What keeps you going? What helps you move through hardship? The ArtWorks community invites you to consider these questions around resilience as you view these works.  

Avivo Artwork's Resilience exhibition is on display in the Best Buy Foundation Gallery located inside The Hennepin, 900 Hennepin Ave. through March 12. In addition, 20 poster prints from the Resilience exhibition on display in the windows of City Place Lofts Sidewalk Gallery on 8th and Hennepin.
 

Artist Reception Feb 28th 3PM-7PM
  There will be an artist reception for the Avivo exhibition(s) in the Best Buy Foundation Gallery at 900 Hennepin Ave located inside The Hennepin event center

ARTISTS
  Renee F., Johanna Christianson, Gary R. Melquist, Kyrtie Twyla, Gabrielle Anczarski, Maurice Weatherspoon, Tobias, Julia Spencer, Faye Buffington Howell, Ellie Kidder, Douglas Blue, Accola, Ruth Lais, Sarah Wincek, T.L. Reeves, John Casey III, Patti Streeter, Michael Jaeger, Morgan Brooke, Peter F. Hinze

Avivo is a Minneapolis-based nonprofit that serves nearly 15,000 Minnesotans each year, helping them achieve recovery, employment and economic advancement. Founded in 1960, Avivo specializes in helping individuals and families who face personal or systemic barriers — poverty, homelessness, joblessness, chemical addiction or mental health concerns — achieve recovery and economic stability.

ArtWorks, a program of Avivo, has been supporting artists living with mental illness since 2004. Avivo’s multi-faceted art studio and programming is a specialized service that assists individuals who are seeking space to make art, receive peer support, build skills and access larger art career resources. In addition, Avivo organizes public projects that challenge stigma and raise mental health awareness. Avivo ArtWorks has previously exhibited with Soo Visual Arts Center, Augsburg College, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Hennepin County Library and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Image Credit: Ruth Lais, Together