Arts, Military + Healing

Workshops

Registration Required: May 2 for drama workshop; May 13 for other workshops

How can the arts—visual arts, theatre, and creative writing—offer veterans, service members, and military families avenues of expression, healing, and reflection? This series of workshops connects Americans who have served in the military in Iraq or Afghanistan with artists and art therapy practitioners through two types of workshop environments: a studio art setting, for artistic exchange between teachers and participants, as well as a “artist-teachers teaching teachers” model, for artists or art therapists who are now working, or hope to work, within military communities.

Art Therapy and Resilience Enhancement MORE

3-day workshop: May 14-16, 2012, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 10am – 4pm

Location:Create Arts Center , Silver Spring, MD

Leader: Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPAT, LPCC, art therapist, Art Therapy without Borders

Open to: art therapy practitioners, art therapy students, and artists who are now working within, or hope to work with, military communities.

Limited to 17 participants. Register

Paper Making as Art Therapy for Trauma Intervention MORE

5-day hand papermaking workshop: May 14-18, 2012, Mon – Fri, 10am – 4pm

Location: George Mason University, School of Art, Fairfax, VA

Leaders: Drew Mattot, artist/founder, Peace Paper; Gretchen Miller, MA, ATR-BC, art therapist, Art Therapy without Borders

Open to: current duty service members, veterans, and military families; as well as art therapy practitioners, art therapy students, and other health care professionals working specifically with military communities

Limited to 35 participants Register

From Uniforms to Paper and Creative Writing:
Combat Paper Project and Warrior Writers MORE

5-day creative writing and hand papermaking workshop: May 14-18, 2012, Monday - Friday, 10am – 4pm

Location: Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington, DC

Leaders: Drew Cameron (Army), artist/co-founder Combat Paper Project; Lovella Calica, writer/founder Warrior Writers

Open to: only current duty service members and veterans

Limited to 25 participants Register

In The Telling a workshop in “Telling” theatre MORE

5-day drama workshop: May 14-18, 2012, Monday – Friday, 10am – 4pm

Location: Library of Congress, Veterans History Project, Washington, DC

Leaders: Jonathan Wei and Max Rayneard, The Telling Project, with support from Veteran Artist Program

Open to: service members, veterans, and military families; as well as directors and advanced directing students who are currently working, or hope to work, with military communities.

EARLY registration for veteran/family member performers closes at midnight on May 2, with interviews (mandatory for all veteran/family member performers) on May 1-3. Interviews will be with director Jonathan Wei and there will be a performance on Friday, May 18th, as part of the Closing Program.

Registration for directors closes when general registration closes.

Limited to 24 participants Register

The Joe Bonham Project and Combat Paper NJMORE

2-day sketching and papermaking workshop: Thursday and Friday, May 17-18, 2012, 9:30 am – 1:30 pm, on the campus of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD

Leaders: former combat artist Michael D. Fay (Marines) and Victor Juhasz, The Joe Bonham Project; David Keefe (Marines) and Eli Wright (Army), Combat Paper NJ