Living Life: Stories of Artists aims to collaboratively paint an in-depth and nuanced picture of mental illness and the resulting lifestyles sourced from varied lived experiences. This exhibit calls for a community check-in on your lived life. Let us and each other know, how are you?

Throughout time, artists have been touched by mental illness or disorders that affect one's mood, thinking and behavior. Daniel Johnston, an American musician known for his homemade recordings about love, life and loss, is one example having struggled with bipolar disorder and psychosis. Films such as The Devil and Daniel Johnston aim to demystify mental health disorders by illuminating Johnston’s breaks with reality and the effect it’s had on his life, music and those closest to him.

The Devil and Daniel Johnston tells the story of one man’s struggle but there are countless others out there—especially in marginalized communities—whose voices need to be heard, moreover, celebrated. With tailored resources, accessibility and support, SEA of Visibility works to center historically excluded people and bring visibility to unique stories in BIPOC, AAPI, immigrant, femme and queer communities and more, through art, in an effort to foster a well-lived life and personal and professional success such that of Daniel Johnston.

Exhibition dates: 11/12/22 - 12/15/22

Opening reception: Saturday, 11/12/22, 5-9pm

Location: Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave, Huntington, NY 11743

https://cinemaartscentre.org/

https://www.seaofvisibility.com/