WALL\THERAPY IS RECIPIENT OF 2022 GRANT FROM JOHN STEUART CURRY FOUNDATION
WALL\THERAPY is thrilled to announce that the John Steuart Curry Foundation has awarded our non-profit a $25,000 grant for the year 2022 that will help us produce our ten-year anniversary festival.
Renowned American regionalist painter, John Steuart Curry believed that art should appeal to the common man. He also firmly believed that art should have meaning and say something beyond bucolic scenes. Best known for his powerful, socially, and historically located canvases and murals – paintings of actual people, real communities, and tangible geographies, Curry used his artistic talents to translate, and subsequently elevate the experiences of his fellow Americans by reflecting the beauty, triumphs, sins and sorrows that have helped to define our identity as a nation.
WALL\THERAPY will return to form in celebration of our tenth anniversary during a week-long summer festival taking place July 22-31, 2022, hosting approximately 14 total artists. This curation will include six artists specifically chosen for work and practice that honors the spirit of John Steuart Curry’s work. Together, all the artists will be creating murals at various sites with partnering neighborhoods and businesses across the city of Rochester.
WALL\THERAPY also plans to specifically highlight the impact of John Steuart Curry and help educate WALL\THERAPY supporters and the broader community about his work and legacy through our website, highlighting the artists selected to as part of this program, and how their work and WALL\THERAPY’s work carries on the spirit of John Steuart Curry.
You can read more about it and John Steuart Curry on our dedicated John Steuart Curry Foundation Section . . .