KAT’s ART THERAPY PROGRAM SUPPORTS OPERATION SOCK MONKEY! Now you can support their drive online- through purchase of Kat’s POST STREET sock creations or donation via PAYPAL! Go to Kat’s POST STREET STORE! The FIRST INSTALLMENT of 150+ sock monkeys will be sent to Africa around May 15, 2010, to support the work of OPERATION SOCK MONKEY–…
Month: March 2010
Eva
Eva Dien Brine Markvoort died March 27, 2010. I encourage you to watch the documentary 65 Red Roses – about the dramatic life-saving battle of this young B.C. woman seeking a double lung transplant (re-airing Friday April 2, 2010, again on CBC ) and read her blog at http://65redroses.livejournal.com/ Doc available online http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2009/65redroses/director.html
May 22, 2010- HARVEY MILK DAY!
Harvey Milk’s dream for a better tomorrow filled with the hope for equality and a world without hate guides the Foundation. Harvey Milk’s ground breaking election in 1978 as one of the world’s first openly gay elected officials-and its most visible one- symbolized the freedom to live life with authenticity to millions of LGBT women…
Body art
CRAIG TRACY: http://www.paintedalive.com/homepage/index.html “PaintedAlive is the first gallery in the world dedicated exclusively to fine art Bodypainted images. It is through the gallery that thousands of people have had the unique opportunity to be introduced to this most alluring, ancient and contemporary art form.” Click on the following link for an amazing “making of..” Craig…
Fantastic Mr. Fox concept art/ storyboards
CONCEPT ART BY CHRIS APPELHANS. Go to: http://criscoh.xanga.com/715426375/item/ STORYBOARDS BY CHRISTIAN DEVITA. Go to: http://drawn.ca/2009/11/09/an-interview-with-fantastic-mr-fox-storyboard-artist-christian-devita/
Book recommendation: A Thousand Dreams
A Thousand Dreams- Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the fight for its future By: Neil Boyd, Larry Campbell, Lori Culbert A complex look at a community at risk, by three people who have seen it on the ground. In this mix of history, journalism, political analysis, and first-person accounts, former chief coroner and Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell, renowned criminologist Neil Boyd,…
The power of women helping women.
I was thoroughly moved by the community and bond between women yesterday as I helped a young woman through a difficult day. The young woman reached out to me for support. We went to a women’s clinic and were attended to by incredible and caring female staff. The net of unconditional support that surrounded this…
Thought for the day
Creativity lives in gardens, and children, and walking, in bad jobs, and crying at 4 am. – Sark
Thought for the day
There is a lot of joy in the mess and chaos of living as a “splendidly imperfect” human being. – Sark
Graffiti Art Therapy
Ezekiel- Eric Rothman Art Therapy Research MAP640B Janice Hoshino, Ph.D., ATR-BC December 11, 2002 ABSTRACT This study investigates the therapeutic effectiveness of using art therapy in conjunction with graffiti art and culture in the treatment of socially-defiant adolescents who have been detained and/or put on probation for defacing public property with graffiti. A group of seven…
Article: At-Risk Youth and the Creative Process
by Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D. Gifted Development Center Talented children and youth who are disruptive, or violent, or delinquent, or just poor students are a paradox worthy of exploration in a search for new solutions or explanations.- Ken Seeley (2003) What enables young people at risk for delinquency to choose a more constructive path? Most likely…