ArtScapes
Expressive art for survivors of sexual abuse
2-day Expressive Art Exploration
Saturday – Sunday
September 14th & 15th, 2024
9 am to 4 pm each day
Join us for an expressive art weekend for survivors and allies of sexual abuse. These two-day process art workshops are instrumental for healing.
“Playing with Light and Shadow: Expressing Yourself Through Books and Prints”
Supplies and lunch provided
Donations Welcome
Who Gives A Scrap, 810 Arcturus, 80904
Facilitator: Jillian Sico
Participants will bring flowers, plants, and personal objects to this workshop to create cyanotype prints using sunlight, layered with darker linoleum cut prints.
We will experiment with the dual aspects of light and shadow to make personalized artist’s books. First we will create cyanotypes, or sun prints, using objects you bring to class such as flowers, jewelry, or even just our own hands. Then we will carve designs to print, experimenting with different shapes and colors. We will then use our prints to make unique book objects on the second day.
Jillian Sico (she/her) is a book artist who manages The Press at Colorado College, a teaching-centered letterpress and book arts studio on campus. She was drawn to bookmaking as a way to bring nature and materials together with personal writing and research. She loves camping and being in nature, including doing field research for artist’s book projects.
This year, ArtScapes begins with “The Room That Is Your Mind- What’s In It?” with Joyce Aubrey as the artist-instructor. By examining feelings, modalities of healing and core values, each artist created an original scratch art piece with amazing color and design.
Session I : February 11-12, 2023
9:00am-4:00pm
“The Room that Is Your Mind” Joyce Aubrey
Session II : June 8-9, 2023
9:00am-4:00pm
Dale Mueller-Smith
Session III : October 14-15, 2023 9:00am-4:00pm To Be Announced
FREE Presented to you through a grant from the HaGomel Foundation. Lunch and snacks are included.
LOCATION “Who Gives A Scrap” Studio 810 Arcturus Dr. Colorado Springs, CO 80905
REGISTRATION / QUESTIONS
To register, please send your name and email address
History of ArtScapes
In December, 2021 FOV founder, Joyce Aubrey was contacted by Elya Braden of the HaGomel Foundation offering a grant to provide expressive art experiences to survivors of sexual trauma. Presenting two-day process art workshops had been a dream of Joyce’s from the time expressive arts were instrumental in her own healing. The Board scrambled to design a program, secure a venue, create a budget and submit an application. And ArtScapes was born!
In 2021, we had 49 women survivors, allies, artists and therapists painted, sculpted, wove, stitched and created during a total of 8 days of post-traumatic growth and mutual support.
Presented through a grant from HaGomel Foundation
Self expression with paint
Trauma work with textiles
Guidance and inspiration
