Celebrate The Healing Power of ART
Articles related to the healing process by Artists, therapists, art writers, representaives from art and healing organizations.
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Making A Difference
Your Art can serve as a tool to serve humanity. Look for ways to help others. One way is to help needy children through the Pajama Program which provides new pajamas and new books to youngsters who have been abused or abandoned. |
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Jessica Thayer, LLC writes about The World of the Creative. "Creatives respond to subtle sense experiences unavailable to most people. Whether it is the painter driven to find qualities of color that reflect an inner feeling state, or a sculptor who feels a form before the clay is even shaped, creatives bring into form something that which has been invisible." This is part One in a Four Part series by Thayer. |
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On Being Taught Not to Fly by Edward Rubin, New York writer. I would like to see artists, who have long taken a back seat to scientists, politicians and religious leaders, take back the power that they so inadvertently relinquished... |
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Helping Artists with Disabilities:
Creative ARTs Program by Phylliss Steiner
Hattie Larlham's Program Creative ARTs engages children and adults with mental retardation and developmental disabilities, regardless of cognitive or physical ability, in a variety of artistic activities. |
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Carol L. Douglas: The Story of Me
Carol L. Douglas writes about her life filled with creativity and challenges."My husband says that after cancer I divested myself of busy work. I also realized that if I was going to succeed in art, I needed to do it with great intensity." |
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Lori Landis: Rituals and Mandalas
Lori Landis presents workshops in AZ on Rituals and Mandalas. Lori sees mandalas as a way free oneself from all the distracting "chatter" encountered during daily life. "Using mandalas as a centering force allows me to be creative," she says. |
From Chaos to Creativity by Andrea D. LaVigne, a courageous and talented artist who has schitzophrenia. She discusses her challenges with this disease and how art has helped her overcome them.
The Written Word: Experiencing Art from the Inside-Out by Jami Taback, artist and Director of Talk Art. Her view on viewing paintings.
The Waxing Moon:
An Advantage for Artists by Victoria
Martin, artist and astrologer. Creative
planning according to the phases of the moon.
The Artist's
Vision of Self in the Process of Personal and Professional
Growth by Renée Phillips (an excerpt from her article
published in Chicago Artists Coalition News)
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