Join us Saturday Sept 24th from 4-6 at our 4 Market St. Gallery to celebrate the powerful work of Brendan M. McCarthy and Edmund Dalo of Authentic Abstraction
Documentary Screening of "Flame is Jazz” @ 4:30
Q& A after film
Mingling!
“Collab’Nation”
An Ode To Education, PTSD And The Arts
Brendan and Edmund are both former Rhode Island firefighters who met while working for the city of Pawtucket. Each of them worked as a firefighter for nearly 10 years, and suffer from severe work-related trauma. During their time working together, the duo bonded over a love of music, writing, and creating. To cope with their illness, they began creating paintings and poetry under the moniker "Just BE". From this, Authentic Abstraction was born.
"Art went from a coping strategy to deal with the horrors of our work as firefighters to now being the gasoline and ignitor to the new fire we will be fighting - The fire of activism and advocation, painting, writing, connecting, listening, creating, and healing."
