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CREATIVE COMMUNICATION: CONNECTICUT’S EMPOWERING ART OF HEALING

// Current Issue, Issue Articles, July/August 2019

by Tom Soboleski

As a devotee of art, you grasp its power to inspire, inform and instigate. But what about its power to rehabilitate? A new program in Connecticut is getting encouraging feedback from the at-risk and health-challenged participants of a project that involves them in arts-themed activities as an alternative form of treatment. Their artwork and testimony is now on display in a fresh exhibit — “The Art of Healing” — that will travel to a variety of southeastern Connecticut venues throughout the summer. The project is the outcome of brainstorming sessions of seven health and social service agencies that decided to try art therapy for the individuals they treat who struggle with a wide range of conditions — from mental or physical disabilities to substance abuse, depression, psychiatric disorders, social fears and more. Coordinated under the guidance of the Southeastern Connecticut Cultural … [Read more...] about CREATIVE COMMUNICATION: CONNECTICUT’S EMPOWERING ART OF HEALING

Thi Linh Wernau, "My Injuries Don't Define Me."

You. Are. Beautiful. A Tribute to Warriors at the McGladrey Art Gallery

// Exhibits, News

By Puloma Ghosh Waltham, MA — After following a winding path, Thi Linh Wernau found herself wanting to pursue photography professionally, years after she had discovered a love for it during her college years. She returns to her passion with the series, “You. Are. Beautiful. A Tribute to Warriors,” an inspiring look at unique individuals in our society. Her inspiration for the project began with the passing of her grandmother, who left Wernau a pillow with an excerpt from a poem stitched onto it that read, “I woke and found that life was duty.” Around the same time, Wernau was walking through at her sister’s house and found, among a wall full of prints and paintings, one work that stood out to her: a simple text that said “You are beautiful.” Those words summed up the feelings she wanted to convey with her photography. One day she picked up a medium format plastic toy camera, … [Read more...] about You. Are. Beautiful. A Tribute to Warriors at the McGladrey Art Gallery