Exhibitions

Children's Museum of Manhattan
(On view January 2008 through April 2009)
The foundation's inaugural exhibit featured the Children's Museum of Manhattan's (CMOM) Program for Families in Temporary Housing. It includes poignant images and poetry taken from the past two years of the program, which began 12 years ago. The installation reveals universal truths about parenting and the unique experience of parents raising children with no place to call home. It also reflects CMOM's commitment to make a meaningful museum experience available to all parents, caregivers and their children.

Artistic Noise
(On view May-October 2009)
The work of Artistic Noise in now on view at the foundation through October 2009. Artistic Noise (formerly H.U.M.A.N. - Hear Us Make Artistic Noise) is a small arts and entrepreneurship program that works with youth involved in the juvenile justice system and was founded in Boston, MA in 2001.

Using the Boston program as a model Artistic Noise in New York City concentrates on building teens’ strengths, improving their ties to community programs and empowering them to advocate for themselves. Artistic Noise focuses on both the individual artist and the possibilities art collaboration creates to initiate dialogue about issues regarding youth involved in the juvenile justice system and beyond.

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Fountain Gallery
(On view November 2009-May 2010)
Works from Fountain Gallery are now on view at the foundation through May 2010. The product of a unique vision, Fountain Gallery is a not-for-profit cooperative run by and for artists living with mental illness. Beginning with a handful of artists in the summer of 2000, the Gallery has grown to include nearly 40 artists pursuing their personal visions and challenging the stigma that surrounds mental illness. These gifted artists are members of Fountain House, an internationally renowned organization dedicated for more than 60 years to improving the lives of individuals living with mental illness. By exhibiting visionary art, achieving commercial success and generating public dialogue, the Gallery is making a vital contribution to the New York arts community and working to change common misconceptions about people living with severe persistent mental illness.

The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund is delighted to be able to exhibit works by Fountain Gallery artists, Gary Brent Hilsen, Martin Cohen, Deborah Standard, Vladimir Nikolski, and Anthony Ballard, curated by Bernard J. Stote.

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The NYC Green Cart Photography Commission
Works in Progress Exhibition (On view May 2010-November 2010)
The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund has awarded a seed grant to the Mayor's Fund for New York City for the Department of Health to support the NYC Green Cart Initiative, which provides underserved urban communities ready access to fresh fruit and vegetables via hundreds of independently owned Green Carts.

The two-year photography commission will document the historic program through the perspectives of five emerging artists selected by Aperture Foundation, a New York–based nonprofit arts organization and leading force in the field of photography. The current exhibition presents works in progress from the first year of the Aperture initiative, which will culminate in a large-scale exhibition in 2011.

Featuring the work of:
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Thomas Holton, Gabriele Stabile, Will Steacy, and Shen Wei

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