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Project America will host a Fundraiser in downtown Tucker GA honoring our ArtReach Board members, Advisors, Trainers, Donors, and all Veterans who live in the Tucker neighborhood. We invite all veterans, families, and ArtReach friends to the party. Featuring live music, a silent auction, selection of chicken, pork, beef, or vegetarian lunch, an arts studio, Veteran art and poetry displays, bake sale, and Imagination Station. Buy your tickets EARLY online at discount price: adult $20, child $12.50. Click here to get your tickets and to sign up!...
During a week in March each year, Creative Arts Therapists sponsor workshops, exhibitions, and other events to share their work with the public. The ArtReach Model incorporates the collaborative work of Creative Arts Therapists in bringing healing interventions to traumatized children and adults. We appreciate each of our ArtReach Creative Arts Therapists who serve as Supervisors, Trainers, and Advisors, and salute the more than 15,000 Creative Arts Therapists in the US and worldwide working to ameliorate suffering and optimize health. The event ArtReach held during NCAT Week was a Workshop for Women Warriors, Clinicians, and Artists....
Trainers continue to lead Project America and Introductory workshops this Spring. Three Trainers returned to Eastern Kentucky University in March to lead student veteran and faculty/artist/clinician workshops on campus, coordinated by Veteran Trainee Travis Martin. Two other Trainers led a Women Warriors/Women Clinicians/Women Artists workshop in Atlanta, co-led by Veteran Trainee BriGette McCoy. April workshops include two at a Georgia National Guard Youth Retreat, and an Introductory workshop (April 27) which will also be part of a Phase 2 Training Program weekend. Trainers and Project America Advisors travel to Walter Reed Medical Center in mid-April to present our Model and...
Three ArtReach Trainers will host an ArtReach Open Arts Studio for the second consecutive year at the 6th Annual Homeless Veterans Stand Down and Resource Fair in Columbus GA on April 27. This one day event offers veterans medical screenings; clothing, haircuts, and meals; legal, spiritual, and employment counseling; a Job Fair, and other sources of support. Our Trainers will set up in the Women Veterans area, offering opportunities to create art, meditate, write, and connect through the expressive arts. We appreciate Trainer and Board Member Priscilla Omega’s continuing leadership once again this year in coordinating our presence at this...
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Click here to download a printable version of the newsletter! Message from the Founder: Recently I heard a quote from one of our donors, the late Dorothy McClatchey, who said “To be in the moment is to be between the fruits of the past and the seeds of the future”. How perfectly she captured where The ArtReach Foundation stands at any given moment. Over the life of this non-profit, now in its fifteenth year, our annual newsletters have reflected on the previous year’s “fruits”. With fruit, there are always seeds for new growth and bounty. ArtReach’s 2012 was no different....
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November
2012
Article by Susan Larson Snippet: When I attended an organizational meeting for the newly formed ArtReach Foundation in Duluth in 1999, founder, Susan Anderson blissfully explained her proposed mission of taking art supplies to war torn Bosnia to help children emotionally heal from the trauma of war. To me, it all seemed overwhelming. To Anderson it was just a matter of following Joseph Campbell’s words: “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.” Read more here: http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2012/nov/10/larson-reaching-out-to-veterans-with-artreach/...
Three ARPA Trainers spent Labor Day weekend 2012 co-leading creative sessions at a Fort Gordon Warrior Transition Battalion retreat held for more than a dozen Army and Marine families at Camp Bishop Gravatt in Aiken SC. Christiane O’Hara, Kathy Boardman, and Priscilla Omega led adult and youth Icebreaker sessions, an ArtReach workshop, Warrior’s Path and Family Appreciation sessions, and a final youth arts session. In the final youth session, a 10 foot mural was created of Family Stars in the Sky, and a song in round was taught that celebrated the Nature metaphor selected for the retreat. This retreat marked...
The three ArtReach chapter co-authors, Christopher Morley, MPH, Susan Anderson, and Christi O’Hara, PhD will join the Editors and other chapter authors of War Trauma and its Wake: Expanding the Circle of Healing (Routledge, 2012) on Friday Nov 9, 4:30-6p, for a book signing event in Atlanta. This “Wine and Sign” is open to the public at no charge, and will be held at Petite Auberge Restaurant, Toco Hills Shopping Center, Atlanta. Both editors, Ray Scurfield DSW and Dr. Kathy Platoni, COL USAR, will be present as well as chapter editors Emily Simerly, PhD (Veterans in the Criminal Justice System),...
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The ArtReach Foundation would like to offer our sincere thanks and a shout out to Mary Beth Johnson, jewelry designer and supporter of our mission! Just in time for holiday shopping, we invite you to visit MiaLena Designs page and learn about its Founder, Mary Beth Johnson. Marybeth lives in Tuscon and became aware of ArtReach’s work during our “Breaking the Veils U.S.Tour” in 2009. At that time, Mary Beth met by chance our Tour Co-Chair, Katrina Griessman and learned about our mission. Since then, she has held the idea of one day making a bracelet to sell that would...
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