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Delaney Bend ’19 spent a Wednesday afternoon packaging 190 prints into sleeves. The artwork belongs to several artists, including Larry M., an artist who is homeless she’s been working with all semester through a program called Art Space. A collaboration between the Tampa Museum of Art, Hyde Park United Methodist Church/The Portico and the UT art therapy program, Art Space has helped several homeless artists find and release their inner creatives through a weekly gathering, sometimes at the museum and sometimes at The Portico, a café and meeting space in downtown Tampa dedicated to supporting homeless initiatives.
Delaney Bend ’19 has been working with her professor, Joe Scarce, a board-certified art therapist and instructor of art therapy at UT, in a collaborative program between the Tampa Museum of Art, Hyde Park United Methodist Church/The Portico and the UT art therapy program.
Now through Nov. 4, UT’s Scarfone/Hartley Gallery is hosting Fissures and Cracks, an exhibition of visual works by the homeless of Tampa Bay, including the above, painted by Larry M.
The exhibition will also feature The Faces of a Million Meals, a photography portrait series by Tim Kennedy, UT professor of communication, originally created for Trinity Café.
The Art Space program provides opportunities for homeless individuals to explore the arts at the Tampa Museum of Art, then provides them with art supplies to create their own visual works with the assistance of UT art therapy students at The Portico in downtown Tampa. The above was painted by the artist Janet.
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