Group Therapy and Workshops
We offer Creative Arts Therapy Groups and Workshops, and host Artists and Holistic Practitioners for Workshops.
Inquire if you are an artist or experienced practitioner interested in hosting a workshop or group!
6 Week Series on Wednesdays, 7-8:15 PM
April 10, April 17, May 1, May 8, May 15, May 22
Our Self-Love and Acceptance group for Women will be led by Art Therapist Isabel Beckenstein. In this 6 week group series, we will examine ways to love, honor and care for ourselves through art-making and supportive discussion. Guided art directives will focus on self-love, compassion, acceptance and esteem. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) techniques will be incorporated to engage group members in creative exercises to balance conflicted thoughts, regulate emotions, practice mindfulness, self-soothing and self-validation.
The Art Therapy Place Healing Arts Gallery presents a Solo Art Exhibtion of Paintings by Artist J Gavin Heck:
“What is sleep?” is a collection of recent works that arose from a bout of severe insomnia Heck endured in early 2023. Gavin is an untrained artist who has worked with Spencer Tunick and the American Visionary Arts Museum and has had prize winning large scale work in the Coney Island Mermaid Parade and Kinetic Sculpture race. Some of his most recent work leveraged ai for composition, spawning sketches which inspired the final paintings.
A service-connected disabled veteran, Gavin’s recent work is a conscious effort to seek and create joy, leveraging a palate of brighter colors and fantastical animals. Though they’ve lived in Baltimore since moving from Brooklyn in 2004 NYC was where they built their experience and connection to the art world in work with the Madagascar Institute, Dark Passage and the NYC burningman community. Gavin looks forward to continuing to relish the “timeless, ageless, weightless” moments of creation.
Collage is a great way to express yourself freely, come up with new ideas and tap into the subsconscious mind! Join us for a creative night of group collage-making led by collage artist and founder of the Bushwick Collage Collective, Morgan Jesse Lappin.
Materials are included!