Healing Centered Art: Many Paths to Wellness

Healing Centered Art: Many Paths to Wellness explores how the creation, sharing, and utilization of art can enhance our mental health and wellness, and help heal individual and community trauma. Tiombe Wallace, MS, MFT, will facilitate a panel discussion including artists who share how the process of making and showing art can aid in healing. The interactive discussion will be an exploration of our path through the overlapping mental health impacts of pandemic losses, racial trauma, and other stressors in the last year. An opt-in, healing self-reflection/community care time will be offered. Participants will be invited to create during a brief art expression. Attendees can utilize any simple art supplies available at home.

Tiombe Wallace is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 23 years of experience as a Black intersectional feminist therapist, educator, and activist. She is the owner of a private psychotherapy practice, training and consulting business. She provides services and training for rape crisis and domestic violence advocates, social workers, therapists, educators, first responders, and campuses across the nation. Her specializations include intersectional feminist therapy, culturally responsive trauma-informed practice in social service and educational settings, sexual and intimate partner violence, and healing historical trauma in communities experiencing marginalization and oppression.

Panelists include artists Nica Aquino, Jason Jenn, Rosalyn Myles and Vojislav Radovanović, whose work is currently on view in Sanctuary of the Aftermath at Angels Gate Cultural Center. The experienced based exhibition investigates how art can create new channels for healing and connection, even during prolonged periods of physical separation and quarantine. They will discuss how the artists’ paths uncover the universal in a therapeutic process and invites viewers to share in their experience through immersive art

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