About NARSAD Purpose: The NARSAD Artworks products showcase museum-quality art by talented artists whose lives share or have shared the common bond of mental illness. NARSAD Artworks is a volunteer 501 (c) 3 nonprofit corporation. All proceeds flow to causes supporting the mentally ill, especially scientific research. Mission To raise funds for local projects, for state and local advocacy and for research through NARSAD, the Mental Health Reseach Association To promote public education and destigmatization of mental illness    To provide self-esteem and income for artists who suffer from mental illness To employ the mentally ill where feasible Background NARSAD Artworks began nationwide marketing in early 1990 and has grown consistently since. It was born out of the search by its founders, Patsy and Hal Hollister, for a way that the art works of their daughter, Annick, stricken by schizophrenia in 1978, might be used to help her. That thought expanded into putting to work, on their behalves, art by any artist suffering from mental illness.