A Pamela Alderman Art Collaboration We Drew a Circle invites inclusion and healing. For this creative care workshop, each participant painted repeating circular patterns on wooden tiles with warm and cool colors to form a larger design. This mosaic art form soothes and alleviates stress through the radiating circle motif. Inspired by a line from…
A Healing in Arts Collaboration with Girls Court Quilting has been part of American history for many generations. Quilts carry narratives, family connections, and lifelong traditions, but they also reflect feelings of love and originality. This Healing in Arts project, with artists Pamela Alderman and Kameko Madere, draws inspiration from the quilt patterns passed down…
Art can provide an open space for the critical exchange of ideas. Due to the harsh realities in this world, at times we need to discuss content that some may find offensive or traumatizing. We try to forewarn about potentially disturbing content, such as the following story about child sexual assault, so you can opt…
We are grateful for our twenty-two veteran artists from the Voices project, volunteers, gallery assistants, and corporate sponsors. Thanks to ArtPrize, the international art event held in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and to Kent County Veteran Services and Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency for making a project on this scale possible. A special thank you to the…
As part of the Voices project, 92 For 22 created a collective work called Unit of Connections. This veteran-based nonprofit raises awareness for the mental and physical struggles of those who have served our country by organizing an annual, 92-mile community walk to help lower the national average of veteran suicides per day from 22…
Ehren Tool, a big, burly guy, enlisted as a Marine in 1991. His grandfather, a World War II veteran, said, “They are going to take your soul.” And his father, a Vietnam veteran, warned that the images of war would haunt him forever. Five years later, with a combat action ribbon and a seven-month Gulf…