"THE OPPOSITE OF ADDICTION IS CONNECTION"
Mural painted by Betsy Casañas and Mauricio Pérez at the corner of Plain & MLK at Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services, June 2023.
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Betsy Casañas is an award-winning artist, educator, and social activist who has dedicated her practice to empowering neighborhoods through murals that fuse the historical and contemporary imagery of their communities. To date, she has created more than 40 murals and mosaics across the world. Casañas is also a cofounder of the grassroots arts initiative Semilla Arts and owns and manages A Seed on Diamond Gallery. Both organizations aim to connect underserved communities in Philadelphia with the visual and performing arts. https://www.bzcasanas.info/
Mauricio Pérez was born in Sogamoso, Colombia and has been fascinated by creating things with his hands ever since he was a child. For the past 22 years, Mauricio has been creating paper maché sculptures inspired by magical realism and traditional Latin American aesthetics. Mauricio has also worked for 10 years with Artesanías de Colombia offering paper-mache workshops to people from communities displaced by violence due to the armed conflict. He has traveled internationally giving workshops and exhibiting in Spain, Ecuador, Netherlands, and Malta. Since arriving in the US 5 years ago, he has been leading art therapy workshops for undocumented youth and paper mache installation workshops with migrant community members including a beautiful installation at the Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia. https://www.instagram.com/muchomache/?hl=en
Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services (C.A.R.S.), an affiliate of Cayuga Health, transforms lives and community with flexible and inclusive person-centered treatment. We currently serve individuals needing Outpatient services (including methadone maintenance), and Men’s Residential Treatment. We are currently in the process of opening a Mobile Clinic which will reach surrounding rural communities, as well as a Women’s Residential Treatment Program in Trumansburg and Opioid Treatment Program in Cortland County. For more information about C.A.R.S. services, call 607-391-1041 or see our website at https://www.carsny.org/
Ithaca Murals is a network of people transforming gray walls into beautiful, meaningful works of art that tell the stories of the diverse people who live here. We implement a cultural arts strategy for building our community stronger. We welcome everyone to be involved with Ithaca Murals while prioritizing the leadership of people of color, under-employed and working class people, people with jail experience, women, LGBTQ+ community members, youth, and anyone who is passionate about justice. What would you like our cityscape to look like? Watch out. This is an artist takeover. If you're lucky, your house could be next! https://www.ithacamurals.com/
Mauricio Pérez was born in Sogamoso, Colombia and has been fascinated by creating things with his hands ever since he was a child. For the past 22 years, Mauricio has been creating paper maché sculptures inspired by magical realism and traditional Latin American aesthetics. Mauricio has also worked for 10 years with Artesanías de Colombia offering paper-mache workshops to people from communities displaced by violence due to the armed conflict. He has traveled internationally giving workshops and exhibiting in Spain, Ecuador, Netherlands, and Malta. Since arriving in the US 5 years ago, he has been leading art therapy workshops for undocumented youth and paper mache installation workshops with migrant community members including a beautiful installation at the Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia. https://www.instagram.com/muchomache/?hl=en
Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services (C.A.R.S.), an affiliate of Cayuga Health, transforms lives and community with flexible and inclusive person-centered treatment. We currently serve individuals needing Outpatient services (including methadone maintenance), and Men’s Residential Treatment. We are currently in the process of opening a Mobile Clinic which will reach surrounding rural communities, as well as a Women’s Residential Treatment Program in Trumansburg and Opioid Treatment Program in Cortland County. For more information about C.A.R.S. services, call 607-391-1041 or see our website at https://www.carsny.org/
Ithaca Murals is a network of people transforming gray walls into beautiful, meaningful works of art that tell the stories of the diverse people who live here. We implement a cultural arts strategy for building our community stronger. We welcome everyone to be involved with Ithaca Murals while prioritizing the leadership of people of color, under-employed and working class people, people with jail experience, women, LGBTQ+ community members, youth, and anyone who is passionate about justice. What would you like our cityscape to look like? Watch out. This is an artist takeover. If you're lucky, your house could be next! https://www.ithacamurals.com/