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Bringing art to life

The Art Connection's mission is to enrich and empower underserved communities by providing access to original works of visual art.

Placed Artwork: 7,704	Recipient Agencies: 409	Art Donors: 474

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Artful Seeds is a collaborative partnership between The Art Connection and community-serving agencies that engages reflection and creativity through art-making workshops. The Art Connection staff design and lead a customized art-making experience that simultaneously supports partner agency curricula and clients as they navigate their way to new horizons—from homelessness to housed, from substance misuse to recovery, or from trauma to healing.

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Enrich the lives of those you serve by placing original artwork in your environment.

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Learn how The Fay Slover Fund at The Boston Foundation provides support to bring an art placement program to your community.

Featured artist

Our Fast Four with Jeannie Motherwell

Since 2006, Jeannie Motherwell’s whimsical washes have graced the halls of agencies primarily serving students and elders like Massbay Community College, Cooperative Elder Services Inc, and North Suffolk Mental Health. We are excited to ask her the “Fast Four” questions as our first Artist Feature in 2018.
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Featured agency

Catholic Charities’ Yawkey Center

When asked to join the selection committee Michelle Perry, the Catholic Charities Adult Basic Education Program Coordinator, shared that she was “so excited about the opportunity to bring more beauty into our work space. It reminded me of a quote that I heard years ago: ‘…because art is never a luxury.’ I was pleasantly surprised to find the art was donated by talented and charitable artists, and, that we get the keep the selected art in our building! It was so refreshing to take a break from the work of serving people in crisis, to enjoy the works of art being donated.”
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