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                           Artist's Statement
                  on current body of work

The Save Henryton Project.

      The Henryton Center, a psychiatric rehabilitation facility in operation until 1985, sits alone and abandoned in the middle of the Patapsco River Valley. It is simply wasting away, swept under Maryland’s rug. The state doesn’t want to pay for its maintenance but they don’t want to sell it—it’s a paradox that they have been caught in for several years. My aim is to save the buildings of the old Henryton Center property and put them to good use once again—housing for artists, complete with studio space and an organic farm on the property. The website for this endeavor, SaveHenryton.com, serves as the home for everything connected with the efforts of rehabilitating the buildings.

     As a start to the project as a whole, I, as the founder of SaveHenryton.com, am holding a call-for-submissions of artwork having to do with or inspired by Henryton. I have produced a body of work that will be hosted on the site along with any other submissions we receive.

     As we begin the process of becoming a legally recognized non-profit organization, we are seeking donations and funding. All sales of the work produced by Ally Hunter-Harris will benefit the organization and help to do the following:
   
    Off-set out-of-pocket printing costs
    Fund the hosting of the website
    Fund the research project that is based on http://www.henrytoncenter.com
    Fund the maintenance and hosting of the collaboration website with our soon-to-be sister/Baltimore sattellite organization. The collaborative effort, "Creative Collision" shall be hosted on www.creativecollision.net.
    And much, much more.

     Any sizeable contributions shall be set aside to help fund the rehabilitation effort when the organization obtains the land and buildings from the state.

     Complete information about the project itself is on http://www.savehenryton.com.