Over the years, NCH has had many homeless-related artwork either loaned or donated to us. If you come visit us at our office located in the Church of the Pilgrims here in Washington, DC, you will find the following exhibits at the NCH office, and in the Church’s Bird Room Art Gallery and Pilgrimage Retreat Center. Each year several thousand people get the chance to view our artwork.
If you are interested in checking out our artwork or borrowing our artwork for a special event, please contact us. Also, if you are an artist who has done homelessness related artwork or know of an artist who has, please consider loaning or donating the artwork to us and or letting your artist friend know about our interest.
Portraits of Homelessness, Frank Russell. Four paintings depicting homelessness in Baltimore grace our walls. Mr. Russell also has loaned his paintings and drawings to Health Care for the Homeless in Baltimore.
“Giving Back”, Alan B. Tuttle—These five paintings depict the lives of homeless people with the goal of raising awareness of the problem of homelessness. Alan resides and works in Oxbow, New York.
Home Street Home (1984), by Fran Adler and Kira Corser. 24 artworks, each with a photograph and poem. This exhibit is a collaborative photography-poetry exhibition by photographer Kira Corser and poet Frances Payne Adler. This exhibit was an artistic response to the homelessness crisis in San Diego in the mid-1980’s.
Homeless T-Shirt Quilts, by the late Dorothy Hand. Since NCH’s founding in 1982, staff and board members have traveled the country to mobilize the grassroots to do advocacy on homelessness issues. During these travels we came across a number of poverty-related t-shirts that reflect our extensive grassroots network. As you can only wear one t-shirt at a time, we thought a better idea would be to have these cutting-edge t-shirts made into quilts.
All six quilts were done by the late Dorothy Hand, a quilter from Cincinnati. She created the quilts in an effort to raise awareness of the homelessness issue. Her daughter and granddaughter continue to make quilts for NCH. So if you have a favorite homelessness/poverty-related t-shirt, please send our way.
Images of Homelessness (1999), Tammy DeGruchy (Grubbs). The Images of Homelessness is the largest (22 portraits) ever oil painting exhibit on homelessness.. Artist DeGruchy painted the exhibit for the National Coalition for the Homeless. The exhibit raises awareness on homeless issues and represents who becomes homeless.
Tammy Grubbs now resides in Pipestone, Minnesota. She continues to volunteer doing portraits for NCH. Two of her paintings have been turned into posters that are available for purchase on NCH’s website.
Locked Out, Pat Apt—a 14 piece exhibit—linoleum prints (black ink on brown wrapping paper). This exhibit seeks to explore how in a society as wealthy as ours, that allows persistent hunger and homelessness to exist.
