The Chrysalis Project
A Safe Place to Grow
The Dayton Visual Arts Center is organizing a community art project in support of Daybreak, which serves more than 1,000 homeless/runaway youth in the Dayton region each year. During the project, DVAC will provide 6-by-6-inch canvas squares to Daybreak youth, DVAC artists and all interested parties who would like to create and donate an artwork that expresses feelings about home and safety. These canvases will be reunited and displayed as a colorful mosaic next summer. Each canvas will be secretly numbered, and those numbers will be sold at an affordable price, with proceeds benefiting both nonprofit organizations. We hope the project will inspire conversation about a social issue that affects us all, and will help those in crisis understand that a caring community embraces them.
The Chrysalis Project is open to everyone; canvasses are available for pick up now. We ask that you have a valid email address and phone number when you pick one up. DVAC member/Daybreak volunteer Amy Kollar Anderson will be leading workshops for Daybreak teens and young adults. Artists are being sought to lead public workshops at DVAC; please call the office if you would like to help or email us. The Chrysalis Project is funded by the Genesis Monarch Fund at The Dayton Foundation.
Chrysalis Project Public Workshops
DVAC artists Leesa Haapapuro, Jean Koeller, Sharon Stolzenberger, Patrick Mauk and Jamie Simpson lead free public art-making workshops from January to May 2010.