Advocacy Work

Healing in Arts tackles issues like PTSD, sex trafficking, and social justice through collaborative art, fostering restoration, raising awareness, and empowering survivors to inspire positive change.

Available Workshops

Amplifying Voices

Art Mysteries, a popular school workshop, challenges students in collective problem solving.

Raising Awareness

The Red Jeans Redemption project amplifies the voices of survivors of sexual abuse, rape, and sex trafficking. Courageous volunteers share their stories on red jeans, initiating healing and raising awareness.

Offering Empathy

Broken Wings is a workshop on bullying that uses butterfly imagery to foster healing discussions. It helps children grow resilient wings through new strategies to overcome adversity.

Raising Awareness

The Red Jeans Redemption project amplifies the voices of survivors of sexual abuse, rape, and sex trafficking. Courageous volunteers share their stories on red jeans, initiating healing and raising awareness. Each installation partners with organizations dedicated to ending sexual assault and supporting victims.

Amplifying Voices

Stories celebrates the unique contributions of individuals within a community. Participants paint their personal stories on wooden tiles for a collaborative wall collage. This project highlights the significance of our narratives in shaping our identities. It also explores the idea of rewriting our stories to guide us toward new directions in life.

Offering Empathy

Broken Wings is a workshop on bullying that uses butterfly imagery to foster healing discussions. It helps children grow resilient wings through new strategies to overcome adversity. The hands-on project encourages them to advocate for each other, diffusing negativity through the Butterfly Effect of Kindness.

STORY OF HEALING

The Healing in Arts workshop was the perfect way to have an open conversation about what we can do as individuals and as a community to be kind to others.

Ann Pilzner
, Head of School, The Montessori School, 
Kalamazoo, Michigan

For Suicide Prevention Month, the Hometown Hero II exhibit brings awareness that art may help increase the ability to cope.

Wendy Lakso
, Director, Outreach and Education, 
Defense Suicide Prevention Office

Students collected household items to create a mock-up exhibit on world hunger. Pamela Alderman’s creative talent and passion inspired students to serve others through healing art.

Christopher Hanks, 
Principal, Grand Rapids Public Museum School, 
Grand Rapids Public Schools

Projects Gallery

Healing in Arts aims to create a ripple effect of healing, hope, and cultural transformation through the power of collaborative art.

Featured Project:

The Scarlet Cord

The Scarlet Cord, an 11-minute movie, filmed during the 2015 Super Bowl in Phoenix, raises awareness about the realities of the sex industry. Our PowerPoint presentation includes inspirational stories from survivors, aimed at fostering public understanding and connection. Local volunteers then facilitate an opportunity for attendees to respond to the presentation.

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Healing in Arts is an art-focused 501(c)(3) public charity, non-profit organization, EIN #88-4188210. All gifts are tax-deductible.

Healing in Arts
PO Box 8342
Kentwood, Michigan 49518

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