POP-UP PROGRAMS
Facilitated by Laura Halsey Brown
I am an artist and a mental health professional. I have a Masters of Fine Art and am a certified Art Peer Support Specialist; having used art to work with clients at a Mental Health Center. I am a graduate of the UCLA Arts and Healing program, and have taken many trauma informed training courses, including receiving certification from the Association of Mental Health Coordinators. Before working at the intersection of art and mental health, I worked for 20+ years teaching Arts-based Social and Emotional Learning to youth – and am certified with the WA Public Education Board (OSPI).
I’m not a therapist.
art+nature LAB:
Summer workshops for Youth.
At the Artisan Building in Ilwaco.
114 Main Street SW.
For youth ages 7 to 11.
Participants will create art projects after a 1/2 hour walk on the Discovery Trail (across the street). They will learn how to use art to develop social skills, creative problem solving, build community – and deepen a relationship to nature.
June 28
Sense of Place: Window Art
Participants will create a work based on a memory of seeing nature out their window.
July 19
Sense of Self: Life size self-portraits, to include natural materials.
August 16
Sense of Peace: Using natural materials to create a mosaic. The Artisan building has several beautiful mosaics.
TIME: 1pm to 3pm
COST: $10
(The price is normally $20 but ArtWell.studio received a generous grant from WellSpring.)
REGISTER: laura@artwell.studio
Workshops with a Recovery Center.
ArtWell.studio facilitates trauma-informed weekly groups to support SUD clients.
These take place at different venues around the peninsula, such as Willapa Retreats, Ilwaco Clay Studio and The World Kite Museum.
See Gallery for works made by participants.
Workshops at Campfield.
A series of workshops designed to use art to deepen your relationship with nature.
Projects included using natural materials to create cyanotypes, as well as lanterns.
Campfield is at 5411 Sandridge.
More info here: https://snowpeakcampfield.com/events/
Program Philosophy
Process, not Product.
You do not need to be an artist. Art is used as a processing tool. All you need is an openness to your own innate creativity.
You do You.
Participants are encouraged to focus on their own individuality, and create their own projects based on open-ended prompts. Students work in a supportive social and emotional learning environment.
Safe Environment for
Self Exploration.
Participants must agree to treat others with respect. Any kind of judgement will not be tolerated. There is a focus on forming a supportive community.
“I found I could say
things with colors and shapes,
that I couldn’t say any other way-
things I had no words for”
Georgia O’Keefe