Art helps healing in recovery. It is relaxing and fun. It encompasses a multitude of other positive factors.
“Visual Conversations” was the theme of the expressive art project presented by Sara Jane Harris, a drama teacher and expressive art specialist from Maryland. The object was for two people to draw connecting lines as if creating a linear conversation. Once the picture was completed, participants were asked to add words to the drawing, expressing emotions they saw in it. The scrawling lines took on new meaning.
Volunteer Adina Kruppa and Kim, an Amethyst client, partnered up to create a visual conversation and connection with one another. Their smiles tell the story of the fun they had together and the connection they made getting to know one another.
Other projects have included making cardboard purses and writing about what went into their purses prior to recovery and now. Several clients reported that prior to recovery their purses, sacks or backpacks contained everything they owned including clothing because they had no place to live. They carried their lives with them. Today their purses hold wallets, bus passes, ID’s, lipsticks and phones. #180degreeimpact
