We are honored and excited to partner NAMI (The National Alliance on Mental Illness) of Western North Carolina to present a new exhibition called Hope: Healing is Possible, opening at the gallery on Saturday, October 5 with a reception from 6-7:30 pm.

The exhibition will feature art created by NAMI peers—a term for people with lived experience of mental health conditions—during a series of collage workshops at ArtPlay taking place in September, in which they are invited to represent how hope feels for them.

Local artist Barbara Francois, one of the workshop facilitators, describes the collage-making workshops as an “intuitive, non-judgmental, personal, process” in which they are “guided by their own inner wisdom.”