Abbey Brown lives in New York City. She is a writer, painter, sculptor, public speaker, and marketing consultant to artists. As a young woman she was a photographic model working in Paris and New York, appeared in many fashion magazines, national advertising campaigns, and television commercials. As a marketing consultant, she represented a luxury magazine for the elite world of thoroughbred racing.
She researched a book on the history of frames for a gallery, produced an exhibition of tapestries for the New York State Legislature, and assembled the biographical profiles of candidates for a Presidential Task Force on the arts and humanities.
Her art is in corporate collections, and her sculptures have been awarded to the Secretary of State. Secretary of Defense, and the Dali Lama. Her glamorous life crashed when she was 37. At 38 she found her way into the recovery world of the Twelve Step programs.
At 39, she founded A.R.T.S. Anonymous, an international Twelve Step recovery program for artists who struggle to commit to their gifts. There are A.R.T.S. chapters all over the world from Australia to Russia. She is author of The Twelve Step Essays of A.R.T.S. Anonymous, Step Workbooks, and pamphlets. Today her vision is to widen this Twelve Step recovery path to reach the gifted in all professions. They are everywhere. Everyone has a gift, and a dream for who they could be. Or could have been if they had realized their gifts.
It is never too late.