MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – This weekend at Middletown Art Center, or MAC, artists Sage Abella and Lisa Kaplan offer the community opportunity to process the stress of being on fire alert through a painting and mixed media approach to visual expression.
This class is part of the Resilience Project and open to adults of all ages and teens 12 up from Lake County and beyond.
The class will be held from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, at MAC for just $5 per person. All levels of experience from novice to professional are welcome.
The guiding question is, “What did you grab to go?”
Our evacuation vehicle’s contents are testament to what is meaningful to us, like a painting or poem. Tables of colors, collageable items, glues, glitters, brushes and colored papers will be available in abundance to participants.
They will express and release through artistic play, then connect to resources for those now in need and our innate strength to live with nature’s time-honored changes.
MAC has been offering a safe space to engage with the arts and process fire trauma since October of 2015. Join them and experience the healing power of art.
Resilience classes cycle through photography, creative writing, painting and printmaking every first through fourth Saturday of the month (with few exceptions for holidays and special events).
Inspired by nature’s regeneration after the fires as a way to reflect on our own resilience, the project’s key goal is to provide low cost access to art classes to bring the arts into more people's’ lives.
The project will culminate in countywide exhibits and a self-published book of poetry and images created during the project.
MAC’s Resilience project is made possible thanks to support from a Local Impact Grant from the California Arts Council and support from Adventist Health.
Please RSVP to reserve your spot as space is limited, at www.MiddletownArtCenter.org/resilience, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 707-809-8118.
Middletown Art Center is a nonprofit for the arts located at 21456 State Highway 175 at the corner of Highway 29 in Middletown.
Middletown Art Center hosts ‘Painting Resilience’ Oct. 21
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