ArtTherapy PROGRAM 

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Our ArtTherapy is a way for students to use art as a tool to express themselves. The program takes the fun and excitement of painting with poems, drawings and original ideas based on emotions. We allowed the students to pick 5-7 emotions and then they had the opportunity to create a painting to express that emotion. A student who was feeling alone painted a lone boat in the ocean. 

Another painted a beach but the emotion was fear so it had red water. they get to be original with the help of their instructor to guide them along. 

 

WHY ArtThearpy

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My children, like so many others during the last 3 years have had a really tough time dealing with Covid, being locked at home, missing there friends and so much more. As a Mother I watch them and i recognize its been a rollercoaster of emotions. They don't always want to talk about it. Ill be more frank they NEVER want to talk about it. So the create and id ask them to pick a feeling and to create something influenced by those emotions and it was fun to see them come up with different ideas and a great we to encourage healthy conversations. Sometimes the paintings are dark and sad and other times they are happy and bright. 

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HOW 

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Each week we meet for 1:30-2 hours and your students get to create an artwork based off an emotion. The first session will be preselected and can be pre sketched as well. During this session our SPS-Artist willwalk the group through filling out their ArtTherapy PDF for them to plan their selected emotions and art concepts for the coming sessions.