About Our Services
In our gallery and studio space in the Towles Court Art Colony in downtown Sarasota, Expressive Arts Florida offers a variety of exhibits and on-going classes throughout the year. The gallery features art by the four members and the local expressive arts community. We have special exhibits relating to our community programs ranging from art made by people with Parkinson’s disease to children with Autism. We also can create custom-tailored programs.
 We offer a variety of workshops and classes, individually and collectively. Classes are structured to use the expressive arts modalities of visual art, creative writing, poetry, movement, music, and drama. All of our workshops are designed for the artist within and do not require any previous art experience. We simply offer an opportunity to express yourself in new and meaningful ways, including: Mind-Body Skills, Depth Painting, Art as a Healing Practice, Movement Painting, Touch Drawing, Family Arts Day, Mandala Workshops and Creative Self-Renewal Retreats for Helping Professionals.
We provide consulting, mentoring, art instruction and individual and group expressive arts therapy.
We specialize in contracting with community programs to bring expressive arts into your settings, through staff training, team building, client services, collaborative and community art projects, and more. All programs are tailored to meet the specific needs of each group.
Services from Expressive Arts Florida:
On-Going Services | Workshops | Events | Exhibits | On-Line
ON-GOING SERVICES
Expressive Arts Community Networking.
The Expressive Arts Community is flourishing in southwest Florida. Our monthly networking meeting gives practitioners and those in training an opportunity to meet, share, and try out new ideas. Each session will offer a facilitated experience by a community member, as well as networking time. $10 Last Wed of each month Call or email to reserve your spot.
Mind-Body Skills Sessions for Individuals, Couples and Groups
When mind and body are working together there is great opportunity for growth and well being. Participants will explore the scientific basis for mind-body medicine. Participants will also learn effective tools for self-care that can help in dealing with life changes, stress and illness. Call to discuss fees and appointments.
Creative Communication Sessions for Relationships
Healthy relationships are creative. The creative process can be transformative and helps us explore emotions and strengthen closeness in our relationships with others. Participants will discover, in a safe and fun environment how to activate the power of their creativity together. Call to discuss fees and appointments.
Expressive Arts Mentoring, Consulting, and Supervision
Professional support and consultation is a must for those in this rapidly developing field. At Expressive Arts Florida, our team is available to provide guidance in the fields of therapy, healthcare, education, and more. Our services are available in person, by telephone, email, or Skype. Single or ongoing appointments are available. Call to discuss.
Community/Collaborative Art Making
A collaborative art project is a wonderful addition to your event! We design projects appropriate to your setting and clientele. Conferences, festivals, waiting rooms, educational programs, and even parties are great settings for community art projects, and the finished piece can be hung in a place of honor and posted on your website. Some examples are collaborative mandalas, quilts, mosaics, and Flower of Life.
Creative Team Building
We will design an arts-based team building experience for your agency, business, or work team.
The arts provide a safe and powerful way to increase understanding, tolerance and appreciation, resulting in improved relationships and productivity. And, you will have a beautiful and powerful finished art piece to install in your space.
Call for a consultation; we will create a proposal to meet your needs.
Transforming Trauma through Creative Expression
An 8-week therapy group for women recovering from sexual abuse. Creativity is a powerful way to release the power and transform the energy of past sexual trauma. Small, confidential group. Facilitated by Kathleen Horne, LMHC and Elizabeth Bornstein, LCSW. Fall 2009; currently forming a new group. Call Kathleen for information 941-365-6466
Individual Expressive Arts Sessions
Using her "Art as a Healing Practice" model , Kathleen offers individual sessions to anyone interested in creatively tuning in to their deep inner wisdom as a resource for health, wellbeing, and more authentic, creative living.
These sessions are not psychotherapy, but are deeply healing encounters with the inner self. You may schedule one session, or a series. $50 per session (60-90 min.)
Contact Kathleen to schedule
Creating Healing Environments
We specialize in transforming your space into one of healing and wellbeing. We will work with you, your staff, students, or residents, to design and collaboratively create mosaics, hand painted furniture, art quilts, and more. Let us show you our portfolio and discuss options, ideas and fees. The possibilities range from a commissioned art work with a healing message, to a complete transformation of an environment. We will have examples on the website soon.
Wonderful for hospitals, agencies, waiting rooms, schools, retirement centers, or your home.
WORKSHOPS
Touch Drawing
Images that arise from a deep inner place can be powerful expressions of our authentic creative voice. Touch Drawing offers participants a simple, profound creative experience. Imagery is created by the movement of hands and fingers on a tissue paper surface. Suitable for any level of experience, including beginners. Our facilitators have learned Touch Drawing from Deborah Koff-Chapin, who created it. www.touchdrawing.com $35 includes supplies; $25 if you bring your own. 3rd Wed. evening of each month. 6:30 to 8:30 pm Call or email to reserve your space.
Art as a Healing Practice
An art-making practice as part of our daily lives is health-affirming and life-enhancing. Participants will take time to pause, connect with inner resources through guided meditation, art-making, writing, and sharing/witnessing. This practice is simple and powerful, and can be done individually at home. Any level of art-making experience is welcome. $35. Series of 6 sessions (download the March flyer)
Exploring Touch Drawing and Fabric
“An exciting combination”
Join Kathleen for an open studio; learn how to mount your touch drawings on fabric, and paint, sew, or quilt them. This will be a wide open exploration; so bring your ideas, your curiosity, your willingness to explore. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; come anytime and stay as long as you like. Bring your (dry) touch drawings, some unbleached muslin or other fabric, your paints, sewing supplies, fabric or paper scraps, matte medium, and more. Cooperatively priced at $15-$40; please pay what you can within this range. Email or call for more info. Please reserve your space by 2 days ahead. Date TBA.
Art in Motion
An evening of exploration and celebration.
A direct outgrowth of our “Expressive Arts in Motion” exhibit and performance night, this is an opportunity to explore multi-modal expressive arts in a group setting. Bring a piece of visual art or writing that you would like to explore in other modalities, with the help of the group. We imagine poetry, movement, enactment, spoken word, improvisation, and more. If you don’t have a piece of art to bring, you are still welcome to join in. We expect this will become an ongoing event at Expressive Arts Florida; come help us launch it!! Wednesday March 3; 6:30 – 8:30 pm, $10; reservations required.
Expressive Art Takes Form:
Come explore your personal journey.
This workshop uses an integrated arts process combined with mixed media to create a 3 dimensional cloth form (or doll). Using meditation, art, writing, and movement, you will tap into your authentic wellspring of creative knowledge and transform it into this 3 dimensional form.
You are welcome to bring personal objects to use or be inspired by. Most supplies are included.
Fee $65.00 *will consider a sliding scale. Saturday March 13th: 10 am -4 pm.
Mandalas for Healing and Creative Expression
The Mandala (Sanskrit for “sacred circle”) is found in nature and as an art/spiritual/healing form within many cultures. Participants will be introduced to this ancient and powerful symbol, and will be guided in creating personal mandalas. All levels of art experience welcome. 5 CEU’s for mental health professionals. $75 plus $10 CEU fee. Next offered in spring 2010. Watch for date
Creative Self Renewal for Mental Health Professionals
Creative expression is a powerful means of preventing burnout and compassion fatigue in helping professionals. Participants will take a day to release their burdens and reconnect with inner resources through a variety of art making and writing experiences. Opportunities for sharing and witnessing provide support. 5 CEU’s $95 without CEU’s; $105 with CEU’s. Next offered in spring 2010. Watch for date
Introducing Expressive Arts to Clients
Adding some basic expressive arts experiences to your psychotherapy practice can significantly deepen your work. Participants learn how to introduce and integrate an expressive arts component effectively. An introduction to basic, inexpensive materials is included. Pre-requisite: “Creative Self Renewal for Mental Health Professionals” 5 CEU’s $95 NEXT ONE in spring 2010
Expressive Arts Case Consultation for Mental Health Therapists.
16 CEU’s for LMHC, LCSW, LMFT
For Mental Health Therapists to experience the power of the expressive arts as a method of consultation, and to learn basic expressive arts principles to integrate into their professional practice.
Group will be forming for 2010. Contact Kathleen for details.
ONLINE
Online Mentoring and Support Group for Expressive Arts Facilitators.
This is a private, confidential, members-only blog which provides a forum for mentoring, consultation, and peer dialogue in the field of Expressive Arts. It is designed to give beginning facilitators, or those expanding their practice into new areas, the benefit of both professional and peer support. Openings on the first of every month. Monthly rate (unlimited use) $50 per month. Group size will not exceed 10. Email or call for more information. ONLINE (download flyer)
EVENTS
Towles Court Art Walks
3rd Friday of each month, 6-10 pm. Join us, and our neighboring gallieries for a vibrant, art-filled evening. Great art, live music, friends and fun! At Expressive Arts Florida we usually have collaborative art projects as well!
2010 Dates: March 19, April 16, May 21, June 18, July 16, Aug. 20, Sept 17, Oct. 15, Nov. 19, Dec. 17
EXHIBITS
Expressive Arts Florida: A Creative Collaboration
Feb. 19- March 13
This exhibit is an opportunity for the four of us: Elizabeth Bornstein, Tamara Teeter Knapp, Kathleen Horne, and Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, to showcase our own art work. Individual and collaborative art, in a variety of media, will be included. Sale items also available.
Expressive Arts In Motion – A Community Exhibit
Through Feb. 13, 2010
Public Opening Reception: Friday, Jan. 15 6-10 pm
Artists Reception and Special Event Night: Friday Jan. 22, 6-9 pm
The expressive arts combine the visual arts, movement, drama, music, writing and other creative processes to foster deep personal growth and community development. The expressive arts process and the art that is created breathe new energy into the body, mind and spirit and as a result we are fully alive! Join us for this enlivening exhibit experience! Download the entry form here.
MANDALAS for Healing and Creative Expression: A Community Exhibit
March 17 – April 10
We are delighted to announce this exhibit, our second annual! We invite Mandala
art from anyone in the community (or beyond). Download Entry Form Here>>> |
