The Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery
at Smith Farm Center

Michael K. Wilkinson, Photographs | www.windsorconsulting-dc.com

Belief in the innate healing power of the creative arts is central to the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Farm Center. Now open to the public, the space is a leader in its field as the first non-profit gallery dedicated to promoting the arts as a tool for healing. It celebrates and stimulates the dynamic creative resources that contribute to health and wellness in each of us.

Current Exhibition

Finding Beauty in a Broken World: In the Spirit of Frida Kahlo
A mixed media exhibition juried by F. Lennox Campello.

Tribute to Frida Kahlo II by Tanya Gramatikova

Petalos Negros by Katya Romero.

Exhibition Dates: July 1 – August 29
Opening Reception & Awards: Friday, July 17, 2009, 5:30 – 8:00PM

Frida Kahlo remains one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, but her spectacular life experiences, writing and views on life and art have also influenced many artists. Frida always painted herself: her pain, her anguish, her sorrow, her passion, as well as her triumph over disability. Her paintings and retablos celebrate a life constantly reinventing itself, in spite of the physical disability that strove to confine it. This exhibition will showcase the work of artists influenced not only by Frida’s art, but also by her biography, her thoughts, and her writings.

Frida Kahlo: Her Art & Her Pain with F. Lennox Campello
Thursday | July 16 | 6:30-8:30PM | Free & open to the public
2.5 CECs Available*

July is the anniversary month of Frida Kahlo’s birth and death. Frida always painted herself: her pain, her anguish, her sorrow, her passion, as well as her triumph over disability.  Frida Kahlo’s paintings and retablos celebrate a life constantly reinventing itself, in spite of the physical disability that strove to confine it.

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Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts is a Washington DC-based, non-denominational, 501(c)3 nonprofit. We welcome people of all races and religious traditions. Smith Farm Center has been awarded the Susan G. Komen Cancer Foundation Virginia Kelly Award for Excellence in Cancer Survivorship in 1997 and 1998, the 2004 Innovations Award by the Washington Cancer Institute at Washington Hospital Center and has been designated as a Catalogue for Philanthropy Charity. Smith Farm Center provides scholarship assistance for our programs on a needs basis, whenever possible.