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Gary Franklin Manzo is a Canadian Contemporary artist, who is the founder of the Positive Psychology Art Movement.

Background:

Gary Manzo studied fine art and art management at the Ontario College of Art and Design, CalArts in California, and the University of Victoria. In addition to his fine art training, he studied at the University of Pennsylvania, Laurentian University, and the Zur Institute in Psychology, with a special focus on Positive Psychology and Jung Psychology.

Unhappy with the direction modern contemporary art is taking, Gary Manzo founded the Positive Psychology Movement. The goal of the movement is to be a change agent, that moves fine art into the direction being a positive influence on image creation, focused and based in the work of Dr. Martin Seligman (Founder of Positive Psychology at PENN).

Gary Manzo's work has been widely exhibited and is included in private and corporate collection around the globe.