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The Art of Healing

Art Gallery Pop-Up

Join us June 12th at the Bel Air Public Library for a temporary, curated art exhibition. Featuring works by Ashley patients, alumni, and community members. Using a variety of creative mediums, the collection explores themes of addiction, recovery, family, resilience, and hope, offering a deeply personal look into
the journey of healing.

The Impact of Art

Art has the power to say things that words cannot. Through this initiative, we hope to:

  • Elevate patient voices by offering a meaningful outlet for expression.
  • Strengthen community connections among patients, alumni, families, staff, donors,and friends of Ashley.
  • Reduce stigma by showing the courage, creativity, and healing that recovery makes possible.

Want to Participate?

Patients, alumni, and community members are invited to submit artwork inspired by their
personal experiences with recovery, family, identity, struggle, or hope.

Optional creative prompts will be available, but participants are welcome to interpret the
theme in whatever way feels true to them. Accepted mediums include painting, drawing,
sculpture, collage, mixed media, and poetry. Pieces may be abstract or literal, whatever feels
authentic to the artist. Artists may choose to include their name or remain anonymous.

Participation Form

Submission Parameters

Visual artwork is restricted to the following sizes:  

  • 2D Framed or Unframed: 36 inches wide by 65 inches tall; open to all mediums  
  • 3D: Artwork must be safely free standing, or the artist must provide a display stand to make the work safely free standing, and be no larger than 36 inches wide by 36 inches tall 

Artwork must be delivered to the Harford Artists Association in ready-to-install condition.  

  • Two-dimensional art (not on stretched canvas) must come prepared with a hanging mechanism pre-installed.  
  • Works on stretched canvas do not have to be framed. A hanging mechanism installed on the back is required. 
  • Fiber pieces that are meant to hang on a wall must include a hanging mechanism. 
  • Any other artwork that is meant to hang on a wall must have a secure hanging mechanism.  
  • 3D/Sculptural artworks must be stable when freestanding or come with a display stand to make the work safely freestanding.  

Literary artwork: 

  • Must be delivered in hard copy, printed form 
  • Works may be a maximum of 5 pages