Expressive Arts Exchange Project-Nebraska Children's Home

One of the services I offer is consultation and professional guidance using the Expressive Arts in an agency or workplace.  In this case, I was asked by a colleague to help her agency find a way to incorporate Expressive Arts in their center so that they could offer a creative experience to staff or clients.  After a couple of brainstorming sessions where we discussed specifics such as space availability, agency needs, financial limitations, and time constraints we came up with the idea of the Expressive Arts Exchange Center.  The idea was that this would be a small center with a predetermined set of brief expressive arts activities which could be changed out on a monthly basis to keep the material new and fresh.  This was to a be a center where staff or clients could come and spend a few minutes in a quiet state of creative contemplation and create a small piece of art which could then be shared with the group.  In a agency that deals with very stressful and complicated issues, a center such as this could provide an avenue to allow clients and staff to take a breath and use the arts as a small reprieve from the stress of the day. We created the mantra, "Exhale...Explore...Express!" , to set the tone for this creative center.  Here are some photos of the space. I hope to have even more comments and photos to share later. Please contact me for information or consultation on bringing a creative element to your workplace.

Expressive Arts Exchange Project

Art pieces shared on the Expressive Arts Exchange board