Mad in America Arts Corner

Arts Corner

Here you will find all the latest arts content on Mad in America including the latest submissions to the Art, Poetry, Humor and Meme galleries, the latest Song of the Week, calls for art, and articles on the topic of art and mental health.

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After First-Episode Psychosis, Focus on Life, Meaning and Relationships is Essential

Richard Sears - July 9, 2024 1

In a new study, service users with first-episode psychosis explored their experience of wellbeing through group discussions and art.

After First-Episode Psychosis, Focus on Life, Meaning and Relationships is Essential

Richard Sears - July 9, 2024 1

In a new study, service users with first-episode psychosis explored their experience of wellbeing through group discussions and art.

Did Something Happen?! The Power of Poetry in Telling My Son’s Story

Lynnell Edwards - June 7, 2024 6

It's hard, if not impossible, to impose on my son’s story any kind of literary “sense.” As a writer and a mother both, this has been my challenge.

Art as Clinical Method: The Radical Legacy of Nise da Silveira in Brazilian Psychiatry

Ally Riddle - May 23, 2024 1

Miguel Manon highlights Brazilian psychiatrist Nise da Silveira’s transformative contributions to radical and critical psychiatry through art therapy.

New in the Art Gallery

A painting of a woman with short dark hair, wearing a hospital gown and clutching her face. A restraint cuff is on her wrist.

When Consensus Reality Doesn’t Work for You by Isabel Eckes

A painting of a large pink bunny with floppy ears and a human face, with a pink human baby inside it, looks up at a white-robed Jesus figure with an arrow pointing to his toe.

The Holy Toe by Old Bones Inc.

A man with blue skin and a woman with green skin are dancing while flames burn behind them.

The World is Burning, Dance with Me by Dennis Tawes

A painting of a woman covered in flowers, her head rests on a pillow, a white cloth is wound around her head covering her eyes and her mouth is open with a medicine capsule held between her teeth.

False Hopes by Elisabeth Andersen

A painted portrait of a woman in soft, muted colors with a dark background.

States of Mind by Lisa Teitel-Schlesinger

An ink and watercolor drawing of a woman sitting cross-legged in nature with closed eyes and a yellow flower tucked into her hair. A stream flows around her, a tower of rocks and a few trees are behind her, a moon shines above, and a pink-tinged lotus blossom rises from her left hand.

Into the Grove by Aleta Romo

Sheep's face with two wolves' faces below, in composition with text (beginning "Beware of false prophets") and collage forms

Portrait of a Doctorate in Gaslighting by Someone Else

egg-shaped piece glazed with fields of color with words in black such as "Joy," "Envy,", "Anger," "Pride" and "Love," suspended on a yellow cord, white background

Easter Egg of Emotion by Mohammed Abdulhussein

interconnected and multilayered forms/objects in high-density composition, predominantly orange and green with some yellow and blue

Ratz, The Spinoza's Lenses, 2013 by Ratz

MIA's First Poetry Slam

MIA’s first Mad Poetry Slam celebrated the brilliant poetic voices of people with lived experience of mental distress and those criticizing the current narrative of mental health. Featured poets include Jo Watson, Rene Simon, John Hoggett and Rebecca Donaldson, plus a community open mic.

Song of the Week

If You Could Save Yourself (You’d Save Us All) by Ween

Song of the Week - September 18, 2024 0

This week's Song of the Week was recommended by MIA reader Ailsa: "The media portrayal of Ween as a “joke band” has always been (predictably) infuriating to hardcore fans like me, but if you want...