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David Maisel: The Heart of the Art

October 5, 2011

Close observers of the Mental Health Association of Portland know our strategy of using art to leverage political and policy change. No artist has had a greater effect on Oregon’s mental health policy than our friend David Maisel. When David contacted us in 2003 to get access to the Oregon State Hospital he was not […]

Ashes to Art in Library of Dust

January 10, 2009

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From Time Magazine, January 9 2009 Californian photographer David Maisel has spent years shooting the blighted landscapes around America’s copper mines. No surprise, then, that in 2005 he was immediately intrigued when he read a small news item describing the efforts of the Oregon State Hospital to move the cremated remains of thousands of psychiatric […]