Happy Holidays from Odyssey House!

It's #GivingTuesday!

This past holiday weekend, we gave thanks for the many blessings in our lives. Today, we have the chance to express our gratitude by giving back!

#GivingTuesday is a day to reflect and provide a helping hand to the causes and communities that are nearest and dearest to us. Show your support for your fellow New Yorkers by giving today to Odyssey House. 

Your contribution will help families and individuals in treatment rebuild their lives as drug-free, productive citizens.

After you've joined in celebrating #GivingTuesday, please help spread the word on Facebook and Twitter!

Release: An Odyssey of Art and Recovery

For more than a decade, the Odyssey House Art Project (OHAP), people living with substance use and mental health disorders, has been helping its members find new ways to access feelings and a new medium in which to express them. Since it’s inception, the OHAP has produced a vast body of incredible work and put on seven exhibitions.

To celebrate this creative process and bring the artwork to a wider audience, we have published Release: An Odyssey of Art and Recovery, a provocative book with more than 90 artworks created by members of the OHAP. Curated by Justin Peters, Vice Chairman of the Odyssey House Board of Trustees, with the help of President and CEO Dr. Peter Provet and others, Release was created as a narrative experience, representing the journey from birth to rebirth as a person copes and creates through mental illness and substance use disorders.

"Tattoo Boy," created by young men in treatment at the Leadership Center, at the book launch party held at Pablo’s Birthday in the Lower East Side.

The men and women represented in this book are largely untrained. Most have never visited a museum or gallery, and almost all struggle to communicate. Their brave creations are instinctive, even spontaneous, responses to having space and permission, to explore. When given a choice, most choose to create. This is a look at our shared human experience, with the depth of raw, unfiltered expression.

Please visit odysseyhouseart.org to view an excerpt from the book and make a donation to receive a copy of your own (minimum donation $110; $50 tax-deductible). Your contribution will help us purchase art supplies, provide educational materials, and introduce men and women in recovery to the wealth of culture offered in museums and art galleries throughout New York City.

The team behind Release: Chris Cantley, Jennifer Eggers, Jerald Frampton, Justin Peters, Chad Porter, Isobelle Surface & Mike Begley

Shop Barnes & Noble 11/17-11/22 & support Odyssey House!

Starting Monday, November 17th until Saturday, November 22nd, 10% of net proceeds of purchases made online or in-store at Barnes & Noble Tribeca will benefit children living at the Family Center in East Harlem over the holidays.

Here's how to take advantage of this limited time offer:

• Click on this website and enter the code #11491115 
• Or visit Barnes & Noble Tribeca (just 3 blocks west of City Hall Park) and simply mention the Odyssey House Bookfair to the cashier when purchasing your items 

Barnes &Noble Tribeca will kick off this special campaign for Odyssey House with an in-store reading and signing of Squickerwonkers: Volume 1 by Evangeline Lilly on Monday, November 17th at 4:00 pm. Ms. Lilly is known for her roles in The Hobbit and the ABC television series "Lost."

If you would like to reserve a seat for the reading, please contact Susanna Miller at 212-361-1610 or smiller@odysseyhouseinc.org.

Thank you for making the holidays special for the children of Odyssey House!

Book launch party!

Please join Odyssey House as we celebrate the launch of Release: An Odyssey of Art and Recovery, a provocative book with over ninety artworks created by individuals living with substance use and mental health disorders.

Visit odysseyhouseart.org to preview the book and make a donation to receive a copy. All proceeds go directly to support the Odyssey House Art Project.

OPENING RECEPTION
Monday, November 24, 6-9 pm

LOCATION
Pablo's Birthday
57 Orchard Street, New York, NY

RSVP 
(requested, but not required)
212.361.1660 / cabrams@odysseyhouseinc.org

EXHIBITION
The artwork will remain on view November 24-26