Nesting Project
The Nest Building Workshop is a therapeutic interactive art installation where participants construct a human nest, their own safe space, to examine safety, mindfulness, and community. To help process the experience, other therapeutic art interventions such as Art Therapy, Music Therapy events are offered.
We hope to develop our human nest-building project to be used with the immigrant population (survivors!) in New York City, sexual violence survivors, and more! We are thrilled to develop this art project and social initiative with the community and collaborators.
Please reach out if you are interested in assisting us in the evolution of this project. Thank you and stay tuned for more updates!
Impossible Things
Impossible Things is an interactive art installation where participants can express their non-sensical thoughts in a free form and engage with fantastical furniture with AI personalities to reflect on their relationship with technology, incite humor and creativity.
Paint Your Feelings Mural
Participants are encouraged to “Paint your feelings.” Respecting the boundaries of other artists’ work is encouraged. All feelings welcome!
Collage Mural
A prompt is provided and the group does the rest! In this edition of our collage mural project, participants responded to the prompt “What does Vulnerability look like?” with images and words. Free association through cutting and pasting imagery allows an open platform to express without the pressure of generating original designs. By assigning personal meaning to symbols presented in collage images, participants are able to process thoughts and emotions around the presented topic.
We are grateful to all collaborators for the Nest-making project hosted at the Healing Arts Gallery on July 30, 2023.
Brittany Knapp, Art Therapy Place Founder, Lead Artist, Workshop Facilitator
Material Donors: Jill Folino @artchic27; Josana Blue @josiblue; Geraldine Simonis @mllegeraldine; Sunset Garden of Ridgewood @sunsetgardenridgewood; Bruce Beese; Coby Lobo @jacob.of.troy; Ruby Rubinshteyn @gingerphobia; The Keep @thekeepnyc; Melinda @sonomelinda; and Fierst Studio @fierststudio
Installation & Creative Support: Alice @______alice.__ ; Rico @rico.newyork; Levi @levi.tga; Bruce Beese; Shamal Deare @shamaldeare; Kristin Eckstein @kecks102; Rafael Fuchs @fuchsprojects; and Caroline Frederiksen
Creative Arts Therapy Volunteers & Consultation: Dan Schteingart, LCAT @manhattanmusictherapy; Allyssa Rivera, BC-DMT @movingsouls.dmt; Courtney Bouchard, LCAT-LP, MPS @sunacid; Emery Mikel, ATR-BC, LCAT, LCPAT; Isabel Sierra @luvbugbell; Rana Fawz Abdallah, LCAT, MPS; and Reverend Issac Scott @isaacs_quarterly
Nest Art: Rico @rico.newyork and Nest-building participants!
Photographer, Videographer, Workshop Coordinator, Workshop Assistant: Caroline Frederiksen