Being a creative person is awesome on so many levels: the relationships with others, with oneself, with art...but oftentimes artists don't have the resources to rebuild if their lives are upended by health or other tragedies. There are a lot of great groups out there: from the SIMS Foundation (www.simsfoundation.org) for musicians in Austin, to retirement villages for actors in Los Angeles and New York. Artists try very hard to take care of other artists and that is one of the very unique thing about creative people.
The Musicians' Village in the Upper Ninth Ward of New Orleans is no small example of this sort of concern. Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis spearheaded this effort to create new homes for artists - extremely talented musicians - whose lives were scattered by Hurricane Katrina. Do a google search and you'll find lots on this project... It's definitely worth knowing about.
(Pictured: Branford Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr., and Jim Pate at the Musicians' Village site: photo courtesy of Habitat for Humanity: www.habitat-nola.org.)
(Photo: ravaged New Orleans: photographer: Scott Landis: www.scottlandis.net.)
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