Project America
Friday, March 29th, 2013
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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!...
Thursday, March 28th, 2013
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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...
Thursday, March 28th, 2013
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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...
Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
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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/...
Monday, November 5th, 2012
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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...
Monday, November 5th, 2012
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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),...
Monday, June 4th, 2012
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For the third year, ArtReach Project America has been invited to participante in Fort Gordon Warrior Transition Battalion Family Retreats. Trainers Kathy Boardman and Christi O’Hara staffed the June 3-9 WTB Family Retreat held at Bishop Gravatt Retreat Center near Aiken SC. They partnered with Retreat Directors Chaplain MAJ Cliff Vicars DMin and WTB Family Programs Assistant Robin Storey to lead family sessions, including the first afternoon’s adult icebreaker, an ArtReach workshop, and subsequent sessions that incorporated creative and directed writing. The WTB Family Retreats Model incorporates a balance of Mind, Body, Heart and Spirit and the Strong Bonds Program,...
Friday, May 25th, 2012
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Project America Co-Chairs Christi O’Hara and George Wieder were invited to be the guests of the Dunwoody Rotary Club on May 25, where Christi spoke on Georgia’s Wounded Warriors, resources in GA for veterans and families, and ArtReach Project America. The Dunwoody Rotary Club holds the distinction of being named one of the top 3 Rotary clubs in its category worldwide for 2011-12 by Rotary International, and members in attendance at the morning breakfast meeting expressed great interest in helping our military personnel and veterans....
Sunday, May 20th, 2012
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Christi O’Hara, ArtReach Project America Co-Chair, will present “Creative Arts and the Healing Process: ArtReach Project America” on May 23 in a plenary session at the Military Healthcare Convention and Conference sponsored by IDGA in San Antonio. This conference features holistic approaches to post deployment care and rehabilitation, new research innovation and techniques in treating our soldiers and veterans, and updates from the key leaders in the military, private industry, and non-profits on the evolving role of military healthcare....
Sunday, May 13th, 2012
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ArtReach Trainers Miranda Smith, Karimah Dillard, and Carolyn Bacon led several participants in a workshop exclusively for women military personnel and veterans on May 6. These women connected with one another around the metaphor of weaving through the use of meditation, art, music, drama, and creative writing. We hope to hold more workshops for female veterans, as well as veteran spouses and families. Thanks go to Richard Garner, Director of Georgia Shakespeare at Oglethorpe University, for your ongoing continuing donation of space for our workshops!...
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