Recent News
2021
July
Charity Matters Feature on Anne Pollack / Crossing Point Arts
American Counseling Association Newsletter Feature on Anne Pollack / Crossing Point Arts
2020
Ubikwist Magazine Feature on Anne Pollack / Crossing Point Arts
May
Partnership with iFoster.org is launched, and CPArts online workshops reach survivors in 50 states, Guam and PR.
March
Crossing Point Arts Online - Launched
2019
November
Teaching/Workshop: Expressive Therapy Summit. Co-facilitator with Dr. Zoya McCants
October
Panelist - American Counseling Association of NY: "Social Justice: An Imperative for Trauma Informed Care"
Feature article on Crossing Point Arts re; Music & Social Justice in The Flute View
July
Social Enterprise Launch with support from Art4Moore and Entergy Foundation
June
Anne Pollack - Guest Artist/Lecturer at Puerto Rico Summer Music Festival
April
Crossing Point Arts - Group Survivor Art Show
March
The Kent and Martha Savage Charitable Grant Fund recipient
2018
Fall
Teaching Artist Training Initiative is launched at GEMS - survivors are now leading their own workshops!
2017
November
Anne Pollack Awarded as Fellow of 2017 AARP Purpose Prize for her work in creating Crossing Point Arts
August
Crossing Point Arts is awarded an Art and Social Justice Grant by The Puffin Foundation
Anne Pollack featured on WBAI Radio: "Law and Disorder"
May
Crossing Point Arts Symposium CHOICE REMOVED/CHOICE RESTORED
April
Anne Pollack - Guest Lecturer at Montclair State Univ.: Bringing the Arts Off the Stage & Into the World!
2016
March
Received Points of Light Award
July
YANA Interview with Crossing Point Arts in the YANA NEWSLETTER
June
Crossing Point Arts to be spotlighted by YANA - Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance, Yale Club, NYC - A thinktank organized to support and grow nonprofits.
May
Anne Pollack - Panelist at LaMama, NYC - "We Are Everywhere: Trafficking of Women and Girls"
April
Survivors Artworks to be featured in a group show at 400 Gallery in Brooklyn as part of Sexual Assualt Awareness Month. Four workshop participants are creating art through painting and drawing, by invitation from Social Work License Map Org.
January
CNN - The Freedom Project - featured a Crossing Point Arts workshop in their coverage of GEMS-girls.org
2015
November
Anne Pollack - Invited Guest Lecturer at William Paterson Univ. - "Creative Expression and Social Justice" THE STATUE FOUNDATION, INC
October
Crossing Point Arts is named as one of the favorite grantees ("Top Picks This Fall") in the Hidden Gems Newsletter, created by one of our key supporters: The Pollination Project
July
Anne Pollack - Keynote Speaker at GEMS: Summer Educational Initiative Ceremony (as the first recipient of GEMS 'Service Award' )
Anne Pollack - invited to teach for Apogee Journal: "Writing in the Margins" Writer's Workshop at NY Writer's Coalition in Brooklyn, NY
Anne Pollack ~ invited panelist at Avasara Organization's Event at Macaulay Honor's College, NYC: "The Psychology of Victimization"
March
Anne Pollack is very honored to be named as 'Advisor at Large" for The Pollination Project, a visionary grantmaker located in California.
2014
*Crossing Point Arts founder, Anne Pollack, is noted in the Huffington Post's "16 People Who Made a Big Difference in 2014" for the work of Art to Freedom. *Formerly: The Art of Freedom
Our thanks to Pollination Project, Riverside Church NYC, Art4Moore, Statue Fdtn. Puffin Fdtn., FireSpring, Points of LIght Fdtn. Puffin Fdtn. AARP Purpose Prize, Entergy Foundation, and all of our supporters!