Connect, express, heal Your healing journey through art begins here

Art creates pathways to healing when words cannot, empowering survivors to express their truth through color, form, and creative connection.

A creative community where you belong

Come join us in our sunlit studio where brushes, clay, and an understanding community await you on your healing journey.

We provide a nurturing space filled with color, connection, and compassion where your artistic journey unfolds at your own pace.

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Open Studio

A low-pressure space to drop in, create freely, and connect with others at your own comfort level.

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Workshops

Our guided workshops explore specific themes and topics, and empower survivors to access healing in their most difficult moments.

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Cohort

Journey alongside others through a multi-week healing curriculum that builds community and support.

Art helps us heal

Exposure to art is scientifically associated with emotional regulation, less anxiety, and overall mental well-being.

When survivors create art, they reclaim their power to bring something new into the world, healing by making beauty from pain and showing others that growth is possible.

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Transforming trauma into growth & strength

When survivors make art together, they reclaim power and process pain in ways that words alone can’t always reach.

These acts of creativity strengthen the bonds between people, invite others in, and lay the groundwork for building resilient, compassionate, and connected communities.

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Carry your creative power wherever you are

Your healing journey doesn’t stop when you leave our studio. We understand no two healing paths look alike, which is why we’ve created simple and accessible art exercises you can practice anywhere.

These gentle invitations to create meet you exactly where you are, whether that’s your kitchen table with colored pencils or your backyard with found objects from nature.

Mark & erase

Create a layer of markings on your paper and then use an eraser or a bright color to make a new layer of markings or erasings.

Painting to music

You can play whatever music you wish and use anything you consider painting materials. What’s around your home?

Walking with colors

Join Megan for a walk for as long or short a distance as you like. Pick a color and observe the world around you with this in mind.

Letters

Write a letter with this prompt. You can write on paper, notecards, newspaper, or whatever materials you’d like.

Redaction/Erasure

Use pencils, markers, crayons, highlighters, scissors, or whatever helps you express your own voice.

Postcard collage

You can use materials you have at home and might be able to complete this in one sitting.

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These mindfulness meditations are provided to give you space and comfort as a reminder of how we can take time for ourselves to be present and potentially find some sense of momentary relief.

Take a moment to breathe with us

This quiet corner of our website offers a sanctuary when you need to pause and reconnect. You’ll find:

  • Simple breathing exercises to anchor yourself when emotions feel overwhelming
  • Guided meditations recorded by trauma-informed facilitators
  • Creative prompts you can complete in just a few minutes
  • Grounding techniques to help you return to the present moment

Take a deep breath

I am far along in my healing and have gone to therapy for years.

But these workshops made me approach my emotions in a more gentle and distant way that felt safe, and allowed me to have a new perspective on them.”

Anonymous

Join us in creating spaces for survivor healing

Your partnership directly funds proven healing initiatives that help survivors turn pain into power through the healing magic of creative expression.

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Create, connect, heal

Find your place in our circle of creators, where every artistic choice is valid and every emotion is welcome. Healing isn’t linear, nor a path you have to walk alone.

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