The Risa Fund’s partnership with ArtReach GW provides free visual arts programming serving residents East of the River. The Spring 2021 semester featured 2 virtual workshop series. The first focused on Black History Month and freedom, and the second on Women’s History Month and using women who’ve persisted to inspire artistic processes through an art therapy lens.
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Through our ongoing partnership with ArtReach GW, we hosted our first Make and Take: The Art Journal workshop. Participants made their own journals and learned methods for incorporating art journaling and art therapy into their daily routines.
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The Risa Fund and Artreach GW continue their Art Therapy Open Studio program with new sessions slated for Oct. 2nd – Dec. 12th.
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In February, the Risa Wellness Project@THEARC held four Tuesday evening art therapy open studio sessions. Participants used various media to express themselves through intentional artwork in a relaxed group setting. Each session was introduced with a prompt and concluded with introductions, sharing of artwork, and each group member setting an intention for the week.
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In January, the Risa Fund participated in a hands-on art workshop collaboration between ArtReach DC and The Monument Academy, organizations serving at-risk DC youth. Students worked together to develop a wall art installation for their DC public charter school using plastic bottles, paint, scissors, and
Read More...Celebrating its third year, the Risa Wellness Project@THEARC provides accessible, high-quality mental health services (including counseling, psychiatric care, and art therapy) to low-income children and adolescents. In 2016, the Risa Fund worked to develop curriculum to launch personal journaling workshops at THEARC. Additionally, the Risa Fund is advancing THEARC’s ArtReach
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