Colorado Springs
501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization est. 2010
We Believe
#HEALING IS POSSIBLE
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
– Pablo Picasso
Recent Update
Note that Finding Our Voices has recently updated email operations. Please note the new email addresses when contacting FOV for different events and activities or use the links found here on the website.
Upcoming Events
Thank you to AJS Consulting
for their help with our Denim Day Event!
New Offering
Artist in Residence
Finding Our Voices is delighted to offer one on one (or one instructor with two artists) with our Artist In Residence, Dale MuellerSmith.
She is willing to work with our survivors on a creative project of your choice. You may choose from the list below, or discuss with Dale a project that you would like assistance with.
Sessions will last approximately an hour and a half, and may take place at your residence, Dale’s residence, the FOV studio at Cottonwood, or an agreed upon location such as a park – weather permitting.
We are delighted to offer this complementary private art class opportunity from our volunteer, Dale MuellerSmith, who facilitated our paper boxes workshop.
Dale Mueller Smith is a master educator with an additional Visual Arts degree. Her work has been seen at the Warehouse gallery, UCCS, PPLD, Mission Coffee, and the Deco Lounge at the FAC at Colorado College. She loves to create!
Phone or Text Dale to make arrangements: 719-359-7787
or by Email dmuellersmith@msn.com
Creative Projects:
Hand Stitched Embellished Pillow
Hand Stitched Tote Bag
Hand Stitched Everyday Cloth Napkin
Needle Doodle Squares
Needlepoint Bookmarks
Paper Flowers
Paper Gift Bags
Simple Paper Cards & Envelopes
Basic Books
Artist Books
Mini Books
Or possibly an unfinished FOV member project that you would like help completing
FOV Women’s Support Group
Changed to the 1st & 3rd Thursdays of the month
For Joyce Aubrey’s book:
Beyond Aftershocks: Reclaiming Self After Sexual Trauma
“What I believe with certainty is that you and I, and everyone who tastes the bitter truth of sexual trauma has within us everything we need to face and overcome adversity.”
Joyce Aubrey
Coffee Time
acrylic palette knife painting
Facilitated by: Samantha Allen
IN PERSON ONLY
at Cottonwood Center for the Arts
Suggested Donation: $8.00 for the prepared canvas panel
Saturday, November 14th, 2021
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Please RSVP for the workshop by emailing us at:
artworkshop@findingourvoicescs.org
Workshop Information:
What makes you feel warm, tucked in, comforted, and safe?
This is a textured painting of your favorite comfort in a cup, or whatever symbolizes that for you, done in acrylic and gesso on specially prepared paint board. You will enjoy color, texture, and all the elements of art. The board comes ready to hang in your coffee/tea nook or to give away.
Facilitated by: Samantha Allen
Samantha Allen has a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art and has been creating and teaching art in various forms for most of her fifty-three years. In her home, family, and studio, she loves to create vision and metaphor for life. She and her husband Steve have lived in the Springs for the three years.
FOV Art Workshops will return to the Second Saturday of every month beginning in January 2022
Survivors benefited from more than 900 hours of healing art workshops in 2020.
Your generous donations made it possible for survivors to grow beyond trauma!
Art workshops
See future calendar events for FINDING OUR VOICES as well as pictures of past events!
Opportunities to Support
Finding Our Voices
DO YOU SHOP THROUGH AMAZON.COM?
Your regular everyday purchases could help benefit Finding Our Voices!
Have you heard of Amazon Smile?
https://smile.amazon.com/
AmazonSmile is a website operated by Amazon with the same products, prices, and shopping features as Amazon.com. The difference is that when you shop on AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products to the charitable organization of your choice.
Every item available for purchase on amazon.com is also available on AmazonSmile at the same price. You will see eligible products marked “Eligible for AmazonSmile donation” on their product detail pages.
Simply go to the website listed above, sign in to your amazon account as usual for purchasing and it will ask you to select a charitable organization. In the search bar, just below their suggested organizations, type in Finding Our Voices and select us for your chosen charity to support. We are located in Colorado Springs, CO and founded in 2010. Then shop as your normally would!
You are making an impact!
We greatly appreciate your help and support!
Tell a friend, so they can help too – every little bit counts!
THANK YOU
Support Finding Our Voices through Fundraising items
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These items (and others) are available for purchase and sold by The Terza Factor, 50% of all proceeds from the sales of the Finding Our Voices collection is donated to the non-profit Finding Our Voices in Colorado Springs. The mission of Finding Our Voices is to empower adult survivors of sexual assault to thrive by offering creative activities and healing events while advocating in our community.
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