Funder: Ontario Trillium Foundation
Artist Facilitators: Andy Trull, Tanya Lyons, Genevieve Townsend, Anna Camilleri, MJ Lévesque, Megan Spencer, Christine Luckasavitch, Jenny Croft, Tristan Whiston.
Dates: May 2024 – July 2025
About the Project
Art Helps is a workshop series based around the goal of improving our mental health, reducing loneliness and connecting with nature. Each workshop focuses on a different material, and is hosted by a specialized artist facilitator. Materials have included, wood, glass, water, plants, stone, clay, animal fibre and sound.
Art Helps is a response to the elevated need for community art programming, offering programs that create a connection between people and the natural world, and exploring our creativity in community.
This project also makes space for OV-CAOS staff and artist facilitators to gather and be creatively independently of their creative working time. Encouraging creative play and reducing burnout.
Credits
Ottawa Valley Community Arts Co-Artistic Directors: Andy Trull & Anya Gansterer Artist Facilitators: Andy Trull, Tanya Lyons, Genevieve Townsend, Anna Camilleri, MJ Lévesque, Megan Spencer, Christine Luckasavitch, Jenny Croft, Tristan Whiston.