Art Angels Healing Arts Program
Barbara Jordan Art Contest Winning Designs!
Art Angels and The Queens of Creativity provided volunteer support for the Barbara Jordan Art Contest. They participated with and gained support from of a diverse panel of judges with both professional artist backgrounds as well as those that work in the field of disabilities. The artwork submitted by students will be used as creative reference for the design of a commemorative public art project reflecting the concepts surrounding Barbara Jordan as a focal point in the theme of “Unique Abilities”. Below are the winning contest designs.
1st Place winner – $1500 Scholarship – Alejandra E. Ortega (Age 17)
2nd Place winner – $1000 Scholarship – Raven Tristan (Age 16)
3rd Place winner - $500 Scholarship – Luis Bay (Age 16)
(In order from left to right)
Mural-Cure Workshop Art Display at Shalom Health Ministries
The Art Angels Healing Arts Program created a unique collection of healing art for The Shalom Health Ministries. In an effort to promote health awareness, community members were invited to participate in a series of expressive arts workshops to create healing works of art. This healing art collection has now been put on display in the clinic to accentuate the clinic environment, symbolizing the neighborhood support and promotes health awareness for the clinical staff, care providers and patients to celebrate wellness.
Woodson Art Students Teach at the Communities Campus Partnerships Conference
The Art of Leadership” is a community based art project that uses expressive art as a tool to promote emotional wellness to 30 sixth and seventh grade students attending Woodson’s K-8 Leadership Academy. On Saturday, April 21st Four (4) students were selected to attend the 15th Anniversary Community Campus Partnerships Conference. During the conference, students were given the opportunity to provide a demonstration of their experience and newly discovered expertise using the mediums of mandala-art and fractal geometry. During the Fall and Spring semesters, weekly workshops teaching these techniques have been implemented to compliment the school’s existing curriculum focused on Leadership skills.
These art forms are used as a means to introduce children to coping mechanism for mental health. The activities are designed to support young people by exposing them to this art form that brings focus to establishing and recognizing patterns in their day to day lives among community, school, friends and family members. By creatively recognizing life patterns, students gain the opportunity to build, strengthen and implement stronger decision making skills which is at the core of creating “Great Leaders”. The student involvement was highly welcomed by the conference attendees and their involvement portrayed how art could be used to promote social wellness in the classroom as well as everyday life. For more information please email artangels@mocah.org.
Art Angels Healing Arts Workshop: “The Memory Mosaic Quilt”
On Saturday, April 28 from 10:30am – 11:30am, Angels Healing Arts Program will facilitated a “Paper Memory Mosaic” workshop for 150 women attending the Mosaic Woman…Brokenness to Wholeness Conference at The Luke Ministries. This conference was designed to engage women in the creative process to empower emotional wellness. A paper memory mosaic quilt is a fun way to preserve materials that have personal significance for the creator. As a historical art form traditionally practiced among women, memory quilts were designed to celebrate and preserve memories that have personal significance for each of the women attending this conference. Participants gained an art experience that will help to convey the value of using positive emotions to help build and reinforce positive self-esteem. Art Angels Healing Arts Program and The Queens of Creativity worked together to demonstrate the collaborative power that creativity plays in our lives.
For more information on the THE LUKE: http://www.theluke.org/contact/get-connected/
Mural-Cure Workshop at Shalom Health Ministries
The Art Angels Healing Arts Program created a unique collection of healing art for The Shalom Health Ministries. In an effort to promote health awareness, community members were invited to participate in a series of expressive arts workshops to create healing works of art. This healing art collection, which will be displayed to accentuate the clinic environment, symbolizes the neighborhood support and promotes health awareness for the clinical staff, care providers and patients to celebrate wellness.
Word of Mouth is a project that invites participants to contribute to an interactive work of art using the power of ‘WORDS’ based on a variety of different languages to convey the importance of a healthy smile. Word of mouth refers to oral communication and the passing of information from person to person. Through this unique healing arts workshop series, we collaborate with community members to make the connection of good emotional and overall health. This provides a unique opportunity to open positive dialogue, encouraging healthy habits while encouraging participants to care about themselves and to take responsibility for their health.
Austin Bazaar demonstrates Creative Philanthropy!
Austin Bazaar has been donating musical instruments to MOCAH (Museum of Cultural Arts, Houston) since November of 2011. In this video, MOCAH Co-founder Rhonda Adams describes some of the myriad ways her organization has put these instruments to use with the help of other Texas nonprofits.
For more information about MOCAH, check out
http://www.mocah.org
Check out Austin Bazaar online at
http://www.austinbazaar.com
The Smart Garden Project at Sugarland Middle School
“The S.M. Art Garden Project “ (Science Math ART) is a collaboration with MD Anderson, Sugarland Middle School and The Museum of Cultural Arts, Houston, to assist with providing and conducting hands on mural art activities using fractal geometry or ‘Mandala Art” techniques to enhance the school’s garden while also teaching about environmental, life science and math concepts.
The garden mural project will be implemented throughout the Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 school year. As a result, MOCAH’s Art Angels Healing Arts Program will assist in facilitating the design and production of a garden mural with student and teacher input and participation. The final mural designs will depict a creative message about the valuable role life the sciences play in the purpose, preservation, restoration and sustainability of our environment. Sugarland Middle School will present this environmentally themed mural during a culminating event hosted in celebration of Earth Day. This will bring great community-wide awareness and publicity to the teachers, school, and the school district and overall community of Sugarland. This practice is demonstrative of the importance of community support in various cultural arts programs.
The Art of Leadership at Woodson Academy
“The Art of Leadership” is a community based art project that uses expressive art as a tool to promote emotional wellness to 30 sixth grade students attending Woodson’s K-8 Leadership Academy. Central to the school’s curriculum is direct instruction and preparation in becoming a leader. The Art of Leadership project is designed to compliment this existing curriculum by providing expressive arts workshops using the art mediums of mandala art (fractal geometry) and creative writing. These mediums are used as a means to introduce children to coping mechanism for mental health. The activities are designed to support young people by exposing them to this art form that brings focus to establishing and recognizing patterns in their day to day lives among community, school, friends and family members. By creatively recognizing life patterns, students gain the opportunity to build, strengthen and implement stronger decision making skills which is at the core of creating ‘Great Leaders’.
The expressive arts workshops will be scheduled during the fall and spring semesters during ancillary periods and involve 6th graders at Woodson Leadership Academy. At the end of the semester, 6 students will be selected to attend the 15th Anniversary Community Campus Partnerships Conference on Saturday, April 21st. This project is funded by The Collaborative for Children through a grant provided by the Hogg Grant for Mental Health, and principal partner in the South Region Children’s Mental Health Collaborative (SRCMHC)
Bayou City Art Festival 2012, Memorial Park!
Calling all volunteers: It’s time for the Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park 2012! We need your SUPPORT to assist MOCAH with filling our volunteer needs to support the 41th Anniversary Capital One Bayou City Art Festival.
Register here to Volunteer at the Bayou City Art Festival
Help MOCAH achieve the acknowledgement of the Most Outstanding Non-profit Partner at the Bayou City Arts Festival this Spring! We were recognized in the Spring 2010 for recruiting active volunteers through the festival’s new online system and we received an additional bonus to support our community-based programs. Your volunteer support not only helps MOCAH with our ongoing programs but it also assists many other non-partners that support the festival with volunteers.
If you are interested in volunteering at the BayouCity Art Festival, Friday March 23 – Sunday March 25, please register online promptly! If you have any questions or need help registering, please let me know!
Thank you for everything you do, and we’ll see you at the Festival in the park!
Emmanuel Oni
Art Angels Intern
artangels@mocah.org
AIDS Walk Houston 2012!
Join Art Angels as we support Bering Omega Community Services in fundraising for The 23rd Annual AIDS Walk Houston on Sunday, March 11, 2012. Proceeds from AIDS Walk Houston benefit AIDS Foundation Houston, Inc as well as several other Houston-area HIV/AIDS service organizations. The funds that participants raise supports education and pediatric programs, provides housing, food, medical care, counseling, and job training to more than 100,000 Houstonians each year. Join in the fun!
Sign-up here as an Art Angel walker. As Art Angel Participants, we have a total goal of fundraising $300 for the cause. We are asking every Art Angel participant to help fundraise. To donate or if you would like someone to donate on your behalf, please click here to do so. Thank you all for your time & support!
Art Angels Kick-Off!
We would like to thank you in advance for making 2012 a remarkable year for social wellness. The Art Angels Kickoff is just one of the many more opportunities to get involved in creating the change you want to see!
When: Thursday, February 2, 2012
Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30pm
Where: MOCAH Studios (908 Wood St., Suite 150 Houston, Texas 77002)
For More Info email: oni@mocah.org
Women’s Summit – Texas
Art Angels Resource Table
The Women’s Summit was an amazing event, with guest speakers such as Sheila Jackson Lee and powerful discussions of empowerment, health awareness, and community enrichment. The expo provided an opportunity for Art Angels to share information about MOCAH programs while promoting social wellness. We would like to thank everyone that was able to come out and help with the Women’s Summit Resource Table. We really enjoyed everyone’s enthusiasm and efforts. We were able to disperse a good amount of earrings while connecting with different organizations.
MLK Day of Service with Habitat for Humanity
On Jan. 16, 2012, Houston Habitat for Humanity invited individuals, organizations, and volunteer groups to come together for a day of service to preserve the rich history of the Fifth Ward Community. 5 Art Angels volunteers amongst 60 volunteers helped paint two houses for citizens in need at 732 Majestic & 736 Majestic Houston, Texas 77002. We would like to thank our Art Angels for playing an active role in community service!
Art Angels Creates a GREEN Christmas!
Art Angels hosted a Volunteer Day during the holidays in an effort to recycle the generous donations of hand bags, shoes and accessories from Charming Charlie as well as musical instruments donated from the Austin Music Bazaar. Art Angels Volunteers helped to sort and package these items that were later distributed to several non-profit organizations in effort to assist in providing gifts for more than 500 Houston families valued at over $6,000 in gifts for the 2011 holiday season!
Benefiting agencies:
- Bering Omega Community Services -4 boxes clothing (handbags, shoes, shirts, scarves)
- Assistance League of Houston – 13 boxes (handbags)
- Search Homeless Service’s House of Tiny Treasures – 4 instruments (toy guitars & drum set)
- The Bridge over troubled Waters – 5 boxes (handbags & shoes)
- Phillip Cares Foundation Inc – 6 instruments (toy guitars)
- AIDS Foundation – 10 instruments (toy guitars)
- Houston Area Women’s Center - 30 boxes (bags & shoes)
- Alianza de Organizaciones Dominica en Houston – 2 handbags/1 pair shoes (0.25 boxes)
- Mayor’s Citizens’ Assistance Office – 20 instruments (toy guitars)
- Nehemiah Center-4 instruments (electric guitars and toy guitar)
November is National Arts in Health care Month!!
Founded by the Society for the Arts in Health care, Arts + Health Month is an opportunity for organizations and individuals worldwide to promote the integration of the arts-including literary, performing, and visual arts and design-into a wide variety of health care and community settings for therapeutic, educational, and expressive purposes. This November, please join Art Angels Healing Arts Program in celebrating the positive impact the arts have on the health care experience. By highlighting a variety of projects hosted throughout the program’s 12 year history, The Art Angels Blog will help raise awareness about how the arts improve patient outcomes; create safer, more supportive health care environments; offer caregivers an opportunity for creativity and self-expression; and benefit communities by engaging people in arts programs aimed at prevention and wellness. Let’s use our collective voice to advance Arts + Health and show the world the benefits of approaching health creatively. Check out our Art Angels Healing Arts Blog for more info on our unique expressive arts activities!
Art Angels Healing Arts Program Fair a SUCCESS!
Art Angels Healing Arts Program recently hosted a Committee Fair to gain the interest of artists, health care professionals and enthusiasts for using art in health care. Art Angels is a health based art program that uses art as a tool to promote individual and social health and wellness to support groups, health care facilities and schools. Thanks to all who attended and helped make the event a huge success! Because of your support, we have signed up 9 new volunteers and 3 committee members that will help our program grow to serve more audiences.
Learn how you can become involved! For more information about our healing arts program please visit: www.mocah.org
Art Angels Healing Arts Program Joins the Johnson & Johnson
the Society for the Arts in Healthcare Society
Program Director, Rhonda Radford Adams, recently attended the Johnson & Johnson the Society for the Arts in Healthcare’s one day, complimentary training for the continued development of their Houston /Galveston network. This training session provided resources and education to health care and arts professionals. The Society for the Arts in Health care is a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation in Washington, DC. Founded in 1991, the Society for the Arts in Health care is dedicated to advancing arts as integral to health care. Arts in health care is a diverse, multidisciplinary field dedicated to transforming the health care experience by connecting people with the power of the arts at key moments in their lives.
Art Angels Healing Arts Program Committee Fair
On Thursday, October 20, 2011 from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm, Art Angels is hosting an Arts Program Committee Fair to enlist the help of volunteers, committee members, program partners and visual art teachers. Art Angels is an expressive arts program that offers a variety of uniquely designed outreach projects with a strong cast of community partners. In modern society the gap between art and healing is slowly being closed through the efforts of art-in-medicine or healing art programs
throughout the world. Art Angels is a healing arts program that seeks to bring these two disciplines together. With our growth in outreach programs and projects we are ready to take Art Angels to the next level.
However, we need the commitment, involvement, support and advocacy of individuals that believe in the power of art as healing tool!
The fair will take place at MOCAH Studios located at 908 Wood St., Suite 130, Houston, TX 77002.
To register: [click here]
MOCAH’s Art Angels to Host Art of Leadership at
Woodson Middle School
Art Angels is excited about collaborating with teachers and students at Woodson Middle School to effectively design and execute a comprehensive service learning experience to help support and reinforce leadership skills. “The Art of Leadership” is a community based art project that will use expressive art as a tool to promote individual and social health awareness to students through service learning activities.
Central to the school’s curriculum is direct instruction and preparation in becoming a leader. The Art of Leadership project curriculum will also compliment this existing curriculum while focusing on using the core art mediums of visual art; photography and creative writing to teach leadership skills through service learning projects. The activities are designed to
support young people by linking community volunteers with students, schools and families in the opportunity to participate and implement service- learning activities.
The expressive arts workshops will be scheduled during the fall and spring semesters during ancillary periods and involve 6th graders at Woodson Leadership Academy.
ART ANGELS PARTNERS WITH 2011 ROTARY CLUB HOUSTON SKYLINE HEALTH FAIR AT THE TELLEPSEN YMCA
On Saturday, August 27, 2011 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., The Rotary Club of Houston Skyline, in conjunction with the Tellepsen Family YMCA hosted the 2011 Health and Wellness Fair, located at 808 Pease St., Houston, TX 77002 with Museum of Cultural Arts Houston Art Angels Healing Arts Program to creatively bring healing through art.
The purpose of the community wide health fair was to increase health awareness through education and prevention, with a focus on the downtown population of Houston and MOCAH has brought its own unique contribution to the cause. ”We are excited to bring the Art Angels program to serve as one of the top 25 contributors to this year’s health fair, as the program ingeniously combines the creative arts to promote better health,” Rhonda Radford-Adams, Director of AAHAP.
During the fair, Art Angels provided an ‘art-in-dentistry’ activity entitled, “Sugar Bug Sculptures.” “This healing arts activity teaches children and parents about the process of tooth decay, while also becoming familiar with visiting the dentist,” said Adams. The health fair event was free to the public and served more than 300 visitors both children and adults free to the general public. Special thanks for support from our community partners:
The Rotary Club Houston Skyline
The Eddie Armstrong Scholarship Program
Radford Dental Wellness
ART ANGELS HONORS THE BARBARA JORDAN FOUNDATION ‘UNIQUE ABILITIES’ AWARD RECIPIENTS
In an effort to demonstrate the collaborative power that creativity plays in our lives, Art Angels Healing Arts Program recently presented a live art presentation entitled, “The Art of Living” during the Barbara Jordan Back to School Scholarship Awards Luncheon 2011. Using art mediums such as painting and collaging, artist Rhonda Radford Adams co-created an interactive work of art among 15 recent graduates that were being honored with the “Unique Abilities Award” during this year’s luncheon. Students gained an appreciation for an art experience that helped to help build, identify and reinforce positive self-esteem as new graduates.
“Our healing arts program encourages artists to share their art medium as a tool to co-create with others”, says Program Director Rhonda Radford Adams. The original artwork will be offered as a communal collection of healing art that will be made available for auction to help fundraise for the Barbara Jordan Foundation’s Ambassadors Program and MOCAH’s Art Angels Healing Arts Program.
Barbara Jordan Endeavors Corporation is a charitable organization that provides scholarships and services for students with emotional, mental, and physical disabilities. Their vision is to work with school districts to create college ready students with “Unique Abilities”.
THE HEALING ART ZONE: WELLNESS WORKSHOPS
MOCAH’s Art Angels Mobile Arts Unit conducted a 4-week series of summer arts workshops designed to engage Worthing High School students with creative experiences that would help encourage positive self-esteem and overall emotional wellness. Artists, Rhonda Radford Adams, SaRita Dean and Emmanuel Oni worked with several students to provide this series of Wellness Workshops such as Vision Board Collage, 3D Face to Face Mask and Pop Art Portraits to create their own body of work that reflects a common message of ‘Self-Discovery’.
Funded by Collaboratives for Children, the Healing Arts Zone was developed to establish a foundation for a multi-year and multi-disciplinary approach towards engaging students in hands-on creative experiences that foster social, emotional, physical and mental well being. An online exhibition of the students’ drawings, designs and other related artwork will be part of the Mental health component of the program.
AIDS Foundation Youth Camp:
Experience Face 2 Face
Mask Making Workshop
In May, Art Angels Mobile Arts Unit conducted a very unique Face-to-Face 3D workshop series designed to engage 40 eens that were part of the annual summer forum for HIV+ Teens attending the AIDS Foundation Universal Teen Camp. Artists and Program Director, Rhonda Radford Adams along with several volunteer Art Angels (SaRita Dean; Emmanuel Oni worked; Chloe Semien and Joshua Bennet) worked with several participants to create handmade masks using fibercast and discarded jewelry from Charming Charlie, adding a unique flavor of ‘bling’ to their masks.
Magnolia Roots Mural Project
The Museum of Cultural Arts Houston will work alongside Texans Together and the Magnolia Roots Community Garden to assist in the creation of a mural dedicated to the spirit of the garden and history of the Magnolia Park Community. The 12 panel where painted on April 16th at MOCAH Studios and installed during the Earth Day Celebration at the Magnolia Roots Community Garden. MOCAH founder Reginald Adams and Co-founder, Rhonda Adams with representatives from Texans Together and Magnolia Roots Community Garden, where available on the exhibition day event.
View article on project: http://www.lisc.org/houston/about_us/releases_7628/index.shtml
For more information about Texans Together visit www.texanstogether.org
