NYC Commissioner of Cultural Affairs at Kings County
Maarten Van Overeem
Photo: Coco Young, Artist in Residence, Beautiful Distress Foundation; Tom Finkelpearl, Commissioner, NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs; Shirley Levy, Chief of Staff, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
In August we were visited by Tom Finkelpearl, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner and members of his staff to call attention to Kings County’s relationship with the Beautiful Distress foundation, and our sponsorship of the Artist in Residence program. The Foundation uses art in an attempt to open up the world of psychiatry and battle the stigma attached to it. Beautiful Distress believes art is pre-eminently capable of articulating and depicting the human condition.