Defining the Creative presented by DVAA Member, Kit Donnelly

About the program:

Art Talks @ Atria Center City are free salon-style talks on diverse art historical topics for Atria Residents and DVAA Members. Led by Members of the DVAA community, this lecture series brings fresh perspectives and ideas to the Senior residents at Atria Center City. This is an Atria resident and DVAA Members-only program.

To participate in this program, register for the event, and join us in the William Penn Auditorium at Atria Senior Living.

About the lecture:

This lecture will cover the intersection of creativity and mental illness by investigating artists that have a diagnosed mental illness in comparison to artists that have worked through their trauma in their art without diagnosis. Reporting on female artists, presenter Kit Donnelly will de-stigmatize mental illness by investigating the life and work of Unica Zurn, Louis Bourgeois, Judith Scott, Hilma af Klint, Yayoi Kusama, Agnes Martin, Aloise Corbaz, and Betye Saar. 

This lecture will be led by DVAA Member, Kit Donnelly, painter and printmaker working in South Jersey. Her work has been shown in many different venues throughout Vermont, parts of New England, Philadelphia and Baltimore. She has received several awards for her work during her thirty years in Vermont. Ms. Donnelly was invited to participate in the Boston Young Contemporaries as well as speak during a group show at the Provincetown Art Association in 2014. She has taught community classes, served on a local arts board, helped start and run two local galleries, and started numerous artist critique groups. In 2014 she received an MFA from Mass Art’s Low Residency Graduate Program. In the summer of 2015, she moved from Vermont to Cape May, NJ in order to allow more time to pursue a career as a professional artist. She is a member of Da Vinci Art Alliance and InLiquid in Philadelphia. Her paintings can be seen on the InLiquid site and at www.kitdonnelly.com