Drawings created during lifetime in mental asylum are hit in art world. By Donald Bradley, Kansas City Star Updated May 10, 2013 2:13 p.m.

Sadan, a 31-year-old masters student at Tel Aviv University, organized the exhibition in cooperation with graphic artist Ophelia Petrosian, as part of her thesis on art in the asylum seeker community.

See Drawings From Children Stuck in Mexico as They Seek U.S. Asylum 10 minute read Genesis, 9, draws her family in Matamoros, while her tía watches them from Brownsville, Texas.

When Felicia Rangel-Samponaro asks the hundreds of children who’ve passed through her makeshift schools in the Mexican border cities of Matamoros and Reyonoso to draw what they think the United ...

Art Asylum made the advanced directives, for example, after a friend had a psychotic break. “We didn’t have all of these things, and it was really awful,” she explains.