Issue: Art Therapy
Organization: Art Is The Cure
This week, our featured artist was inspired by the previous post, Julie Fordham. Julie passed Rich’s name along to me, and I’m tremendously excited to be featuring him and his organization, Art Is The Cure. Art Is The Cure helps people deal with pretty much any kind of problem imaginable as a positive release of pain and emotion through creative releases. Rich had this to say about how he got started:
Issue: Various
Organization: Various
I continue to be amazed by all the stories that keep coming in from all of you. I hope you’ve all enjoyed hearing the stories of others using their art to affect some kind of positive change. This week, I’m featuring Julie Fordham, an artist that stumbled upon my blog recently and has been an incredible encouragement and has passed several other names along to me that I hope to feature in the future.
I encourage you to check out her blog, which can be found by clicking here, or taking a further look at some of her art, which is posted on her Deviant Art page. Julie considers herself a mixed media collage artist, and says, “I use whatever I can get my hands on.” (That’s the spirit…)
Julie says she’s passionate about so many things, but her art is focused on depression, suicide, self injury, and eating disorders. She’s got a great heart, and shared this story on her art with me:
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"Justice at its best is love correcting all that stands against love."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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