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Event Schedule 2025

- 1 Apr: 2ND ANNUAL OPERATION SISU: 150 MILES - ENDLESS ENDURANCE

- 4 Apr: TWO BLACK RAVENS First Friday Art Walk Showing Featuring: Jessie Schwartz.

- 2 May: TWO BLACK RAVENS First Friday Art Walk Showing Featuring: Veteran Art Activist REDACTED along with Adam Schwartz.

UPDATE NOTIFICATION: At Two Black Ravens Foundation, we believe in the power of art, story, and community to foster healing—especially for veterans and trauma survivors whose voices too often go unheard.

Over the past year, we’ve been proud to participate and host First Friday Art Walk events at The Gillioz Theater, showcasing powerful work by artists with lived experience and inviting the public to engage in deeper dialogue through creativity.

Unfortunately, we must share that this chapter has come to an unexpected close.

This decision was not ours. It follows expressed concerns about our most recent art exhibition and our firm position on maintaining our autonomy as a nonprofit organization. While we made every effort to discuss these concerns and explore collaborative solutions, it became clear that continued opportunities would only be extended if we compromised our independence.

We stand by our mission—and we will never ask our artists, our team, or our values to shrink in order to remain visible.

True leadership doesn’t bend under pressure or retreat when doors close. True leadership adapts. It overcomes. It stays focused on what matters.

So that’s exactly what we will do.

To everyone who came out to support our work at The Gillioz: Thank You. Your encouragement and belief in the power of veteran art has fueled us forward.

This is not the end—just a turning point. We are actively working to secure a new venue aligned with our mission, and we can’t wait to share what’s next.

Stay tuned. Our work continues—bolder, braver, and more committed than ever.

- 03-08 Jun: WASHINGTON D.C. ADVOCACY AND PROTEST FOR VA BENEFITS

- 31 Oct: HALLOWEEN FUNDRAISING PARTY

- 11 Nov: VETERANS DAY

 

 

 

EVENT 1

FUNDAMENTALS OF ART

These are week long events held throughout the year provide 2-3 dedicated art programs at each event (photography, drawing, and creative writing) and will add a variety of programs to each event, proportionately, as our foundation grows.  The purpose of the programs are to establish a fundamental understanding of the specific Art Program, its associated terminology, as well as to expose Service Members (SM) and Veterans to the proper tools needed based on the medium and genre of the specified program. 

These Events allow SMs and veterans to identify which art program they want to explore, then learn ways to be creative in the approach they utilize that art to express themselves; all while integrating aspects of Imaginal Therapy. 

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EVENT 2

ADVANCED ART TECHNIQUES

These events are a week long and hosted in a variety of locations around the U.S. based on course themes.  Participation is offered to participants who have graduated from the required fundamentals of art program and are selected based on their interest.  These events expand on the Fundamentals of Art and delve more into the respective genre, so that Service Members (SM) and Veterans can learn more specific and creative skillsets required to convey what they want to express. 

The aim of these advanced events are to begin shifting the focus from the intrusive memories of their trauma, towards the thoughts of the present and future, concentrating on the beauty that still remains in the world and within themselves. 

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EVENT 3

GALLERY ART SHOWS

We host an annual Gallery Art Show.  The show focuses on connecting the Service Members (SM) and veterans with industry leaders, managers, publicists, or agencies to assist the SM or Veteran artist in a path towards a career as a new and emerging artist, while simultaneously allowing the local community to show their support and interact with SMs and Veterans.

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