New York's American Folk Art Museum has acquired the archives of Healing Arts Initiative, a long-running art charity for the mentally ill:
“It’s probably one of the most important acquisitions of an archive in our history, aside from our Henry Darger collection,” Valérie Rousseau, the museum’s senior curator, told Artnet News.
Founded in 1969, Healing Arts Initiative spent nearly five decades hosting artist-run workshops, fostering the artistry of thousands of New Yorkers in need—its annual client base was some 350,000 people. The archives’ paintings, drawings, and collages include work by some of the very first workshop participants, including Lady Shalimar Montague,. Courtesy of the American Folk Art Museum, New York.
Dyer was hired in 2015 to sort out the organization’s books after its debt had mushroomed from $100,000 to $2.2 million in just three years, even as her predecessor reduced staff from 28 to 14 employees, and traded its Soho offices for cheaper digs in Queens. After multiple surgeries, Dyer remains disfigured, and in 2019, a judge sentenced Williams and Mohammed each to 17 years in prison.
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