Beat The Doldrums-Expressive Art & Writing

Beat The Doldrums-Expressive Art & Writing

Adult Class | This class is completed

Adult all levels

2/6/2023-2/27/2023

10:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT on Mon

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$104.00

$93.60

In this workshop we will use imaginative prompts, exercises, and art materials to help you get your creative juices flowing and experience the joy of writing and drawing from the intuitive, imagistic right-side of the brain. Using creative arts to process and express thoughts and feelings has the added benefit of fostering better mental and even physical health. We will do this work together in a supportive group environment. Previous writing or drawing experience is not necessary. Required supplies for class: A small set of oil pastels, writing notebook or journal.

More about Amy at www.aimwrite-ct.net

Amy J. Barry of Stony Creek, CT is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and poet, whose work has been published by Poets Choice, Other Women Worldly Press, and Unlimited Literature. She has completed two series of connected poems: One chronicling her journey through the pandemic and the other, her journey through her parents final years. 

Barry graduated cum laude from University of Hartford in 1978 with a BA in English literature and a minor in mass communications. She received a certificate in the Expressive Arts from Salve Regina University in 2010. For the past 12 years she has been facilitating expressive art and writing workshops and programs all over the CT shoreline.

She is also a Hospice-trained bereavement support group facilitator, and author of "A Child's Grief Journey," a picture book selected as one of the best five books for 1999 by Education World. Her new picture book, “A Cat All His Own” will be published next Spring, 2024.