Therapeutic
Community-Based Art
A community art project is a shared creative journey. It's a safe space to experience connection, share your unique voice, and feel a sense of belonging as you create something meaningful. Through this shared process of making, we build resilience and find healing.
Turning the Page on Helene and Make One Take One (MOTO) are both designed to provide a sense of safety, connection, and autonomy in the wake of collective traumas like natural disasters.
Turning the Page on Helene
Turning the Page on Helene uses the transformative power of altered books to tell stories of Hurricane Helene through the visual arts. The goal is to create a safe space for community members in the French Broad River basin to share experiences of the hurricane as well as their hopes for rebuilding a better and brighter future. Participants help co-create community books by making pages that capture their experiences of the storm.
Make One Take One (MOTO)
A collaboration with art therapist, Delaine Due, ATR-BC, to expand MOTO to Appalachia in the wake of Hurricane Helene. MOTO was developed to provide arts-based psychological first aid in response to the Alameda Fire in Oregon in 2020. Since then Delaine has responded to community disasters nationwide. Participants make keepsakes from bottle caps and found objects. In return, they receive one that was created by someone else who survived a community disaster to foster a sense of connection and resilience.