Paintings from East Harlem

Harlem Horizon Art Studio

Established in 1989 as part of Harlem Hospital’s Injury Prevention Program, the Harlem Horizon Art Studio at Harlem Hospital Center offers art therapy for pediatric patients who suffer physical and psychological trauma, and for outpatients and community members of all ages. 

Since 1989, the studio has encouraged participants to express themselves freely and develop their creative voice through drawing and painting. Artists’ work has been displayed at Harlem Hospital and featured in various U.S. gallery exhibitions.

Artist Statement

Harlem Horizon Art Studio

These paintings are by youth from the Harlem Horizon Art Studio, which began in 1989 as part of an injury prevention program in the pediatrics and pediatric surgery division at Harlem Hospital. The studio enabled young people to express themselves and heal from physical and psychological injuries.

—Summer 1998

Moving Walls is an annual exhibition series that explores a variety of social justice and human rights issues through documentary practice, and is produced by Open Society’s Culture and Art program. Moving Walls is exhibited at our offices in New York, London, and Washington, D.C., and includes five to nine discrete bodies of work.

Since 1998, Moving Walls has featured over 200 photographers and artists whose works address a variety of social justice and human rights issues.

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