Expressive Arts Support Group – Spring Sessions

How can you build a better relationship with change in your life?  Change is inevitable, so working on our relationship to change can improve our overall well-being.  How can we cultivate ways to stay fluid, connected, accepting, and balanced, even in the face of unexpected or unwanted change?  We will explore this through the use of color, found images, breath, and wordplay, using altered book techniques.  Please join us in opening possibilities through art-making, and see what you can discover.  In addition to the materials listed below, please bring a book you can alter by creating art in it.  The bigger, the better, and hard-bound is best (not paperback).

Led by Andrea Werbalowsky Marino, M.A. Mental Health Counseling/Expressive Arts Therapy

1st Friday of the month – Healing Garden Clients Only – Pre-Registration Required. This program meets via Zoom.

Supplies:
A magazine to cut up, with vivid images
Unlined paper or a sketch pad, larger is better
Scissors
Liquid glue (e.g., Aileen’s, Mod Podge)
A sponge or paper towel to apply glue
Objects with textures (e.g., corrugated cardboard, lace)
Acrylic paints
Paintbrushes
A cup for paint water
A plastic knife or palette knife
An object from nature you connect to (e.g., leaf, flower, rock)
Oil pastels (optional)

A book you can alter – bigger is better, hard-bound

Water to drink
A comfortable place to sit

This program is supported in part by grants from the Leominster, Lunenburg,  Marlboro, Northborough, Sterling, and Sudbury Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.