Community | Wednesday, November 6 | 10:00 AM | FREE
FUSION Social Club November 6
FUSION Social Club on November 6th features visual artist and psychiatrist Eliza Maria Schmid, who will discuss the link between our country’s response to mental illness and the challenges of our unhoused populations. Join us at FUSION | 708 at 10 AM on November 6th!
ABOUT ELIZA MARIA SCHMID
As an artist: "I like to tell stories with my paintings which often turn out to be whimsical, tragic-comical, grotesque, about abnormal, surrealist mental conditions, celebrating metamorphoses and transformations, human suffering and dissolution. Many themes are about aging, disappearance of organic and inorganic forms and their reappearance in altered shapes. For that reason I like to paint in multiple layers and possibly overpaint everything in the end.”
As a mental health specialist: “Born and raised in post World War II Vienna, Austria, I attended Medical School at the University of Vienna which, lucky for me, turned out to be the "second best art school in town". The teachers made us copy human anatomy from huge blackboards throughout medical school. After graduation I specialized in Anatomic Pathology which demands some good manual talents and recognition of visual patterns. In 1976 I received a fellowship to Stanford University in California. I decided to stay in California and do a residency training in psychiatry. I ended up working for the State of CA and the County of Los Angeles for indigent patients, and also as an assistant clinical professor in psychiatry at the University of California in Los Angeles.”
ABOUT FUSION SOCIAL CLUB
Spend an hour in FUSION’s spirited 708 space. All are welcome to gather together to explore art, theatre, music, food, travel, events of the day, literature, and the world of film. Laurie Thomas, FUSION Co-founder, leads the group in an hour-long journey of discussion with featured guests. Casual conversation can continue at Novel Point Coffee from 11:00–11:30. Social Club is FREE of charge and full of LIFE. Please RSVP if you plan to attend.