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May is Mental Health Month! 💕

Grab whatever tools you have around (even objects from nature) and join us for a month-long commitment to create pieces around mental health.

✏ Reflections:
What is keeping you from having a really amazing day/week? What does it feel like to have this solved? How can you make this problem feel more manageable or smaller?

Students at Los Ninos Primero created feeling frisbees as part of Cohort Artist Quake Solo's "Project Feel Away". Using Paint Love's mood meter, young artists explored emotions and expanded their emotional vocabulary.

How are you feeling?
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May is Mental Health Month! 💕

Grab whatever tools you have around (even objects from nature) and join us for a month-long commitment to create pieces around mental health.

✏ Reflections:
What does gratitude feel like in your body? How does it change your day? How could you incorporate a daily gratitude practice?

"This is so therapeutic... I'm getting all my anger out!" 💕🪡🧵

Middle schoolers learned needle felting, a process of using a barbed needle to bind together wool fibers.

We created keychains symbolizing our inner strengths, and got some pent up emotions out!

May is Mental Health Month! 💕

Grab whatever tools you have around (even objects from nature) and join us for a month-long commitment to create pieces around mental health.

✏ Reflections:
How does this feeling (or color) feel in your body? What would you call the piece you created? Did any of the objects you used have a special meaning or relate to your feeling for the day?

📸 As part of our Artists Tell Stories series, students at LEAP created Photo Feeling Dioramas using collage techniques and photography to express their many emotions!

What emotions do you see?

✏ "Artists Tell Stories" is a series of projects, offered to our non-profit partners, that plays with storytelling and narrative through visual arts. These projects offer kids the opportunity to earn badges on their quest to understand their inner compass, their story, and their hero-traits!

May is Mental Health Month! 💕

Grab whatever tools you have around (even objects from nature) and join us for a month-long commitment to create pieces around mental health.

✏ Reflections:
What was it like to create yourself as a character in this story? What narratives exist in your story (or how do you see yourself in relation to this problem? What/who do you need to reach a solution? What you it mean to you to solve this problem?

Journaling is so good for the brain! Studies show hand writing activates more of your brain than typing or using a notes app.

Cohort Artist Meredith taught girls at Howard Middle School how to create and bind their very own sketchbook journal in her project, "Playful Pages."

Students left with a space of their own to write, draw, and dream.

May is Mental Health Month! 💕

Grab whatever tools you have around (even objects from nature) and join us for a month-long commitment to create pieces around mental health.

✏ Reflections:
What is it like to see your future self? What is keeping you from reaching that self? Who or what can help you along the way?

Twins from Catholic Charities used collage and mixed media techniques to recreate a river they used to play in their childhood home in the Philippines.

Through Cohort Artist Katie Cash Hayes’s project "Tiny Worlds", they were reminded that you can carry pieces of home with you, wherever you go