Drawing Hope Documentary Series

Drawing Hope is a series of short documentary films focusing on creativity in the world’s most challenging environments. Directed by filmmaker Kevin O’Hanlon, Drawing Hope documents the struggle of artists who are producing work within oppressive circumstances, worldwide. Creative resilience is brought into focus through these films as a message that hope endures. The series combines a first hand account …

Malina Suliman – Painter, Kabul, Afghanistan

Brad Guarino

Trailer for upcoming short film on Connecticut based painter Brad Guarino.

Haley Morris-Cafiero

Trailer for the upcoming short film on performance photographer Haley Morris-Cafiero.

Henrietta Mantooth, Painter

“People ask me what my subject matter is. Really my subject matter is paint… In Venezuela and Brazil I began to see people’s stance and what it meant. How the foot is. How they put their hands, how they touch each other. I have one painting of a Brazilian family. It’s just about how they are all connected by their …

Theresa Byrnes, Painter, Part 1

“Now the subject is freedom itself, not particularly anything, just a state of perfection, in a wild intuitive connected moment, yeah without any human crap… so it’s like when I’m doing it my whole body is pumping. It’s like everything is building up, all the energy, all the focus is building up…”

Bates Wilson, Sculptor

“Everything I need is around me. I know when it comes time to move in some direction, I’ll have some guidance there, being a catalyst for some kind of coming together of things, finding a doorknob in Mississippi and bringing it together with a shoehorn from Nebraska. That’s kind of hopeful. We’re always looking for ways to redefine ourselves and …

Cassy Giacci, Painter

“I’m going to paint until my hand doesn’t work anymore.” “I feel like these paintings are movement towards some kind of future. Definitely mine.”

Haiti Children’s Art Documentary

One month after losing their home, school and every possession to Haiti’s earthquake, 100 children from the Maranatha School and Orphanage came together and created 209 masterpieces of art. The project was the initiative of Rogue Space Gallery owner and documentary filmmaker Kevin O’Hanlon. O’Hanlon collaborated with artist Richard Laurent and the Life For The World team to bring canvasses …

Richard Laurent, Painter

“‘Now I Can See’ is about a little boy who wanted to see God. And he went inside and he found the ability to communicate with God from inside his heart. I think I had the blindfold on once… I’m still blinded.”

Theresa Byrnes, Performance Artist

Performance in Williamsburg Loft, Fall 2009.

Andreas Rentsch, Photographer

“When I did my work at night, things just suddenly transformed. One piece for me was like ‘The Scream’ of Edvard Monk. During the day it was a very lame rock, but at night it became alive and screaming out in this world.”