Cody, Desert Sky (Santa Fe Collection)

Cody, Desert Sky (Santa Fe Collection), 20 x 20, acrylic on canvas, unframed, 2024

The Santa Fe Collection was created primarily by survivors of the Coulston Foundation in Alamogordo, New Mexico, a biomedical laboratory with the worst record of primate care in the history of the Animal Welfare Act. These rescued chimps are now living in sanctuary at Save the Chimps in Fort Pierce, Florida. Just like humans, a few of these survivors enjoy the practice of painting, and find art therapeutic in healing from a traumatic past.