Celebrate The Healing Power of ART 2012

Our 7th online exhibition will take place primarily on our main website


Jurors: Renée Phillips, Nancy Reyner and Edward Rubin

Three winners from Celebrate The Healing Power of ART 2010 left to right: Paul Biederman, Helen P. Shipman, and Linda Plaisted.

The Healing Power of ART is undeniable.

The purpose of Celebrate The Healing Power of ART is to promote ART and all aspects of CREATIVITY and its vital importance to healing individuals and the planet.

We Believe
* Art is a natural force that promotes heath and well-being for the creator as well as the viewer.
* When Artists create healing art they not only experience a healing process for themselves, their art has a healing impact on viewers, and the earth.
* Art has transformative powers to change a person’s outlook and the way they experience the world.
* Art can affect a person’s physiology impacting brain wave patterns and the nervous system.
* Art can alter the cells in the body and it has the power to promote healing.
* Art can strengthen a person’s immune system.
* Now, more than ever, we need to "Celebrate The Healing Power of ART".

We invite you to share this journey with us.

We are pleased to announce our 7th "Celebrate The Healing Power of Art", an online group exhibition, in the Spring, 2012.

ALL STYLES, MEDIA & SIZES: Our online exhibitions are aimed at giving exceptional Artists from around the world the recognition they deserve. We invite Artists to submit all styles and all media of original art and fine crafts including painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, digital art, work on paper, glass, one-of-a-kind wearable and functional art, clay, wood, fiber and mixed media. No video/film or installation art. There are no size restrictions.

THEME: For this year’s competition we are especially seeking a wide variety of Art in all styles and media that are uplifting, powerful and transformative. Expressions may be literal or abstract -- those of hope, liberation, unity, love, faith, transformation, recovery, joy, revelation, faith, abundance, empathy, soul, spirit, etc.


Learn more about Celebrate The Healing Power of ART at http://www.manhattanarts.com/Gallery/Healing-Power-of-ART/index.htm