Hello, friends! Vice President of Programs, Matt Sandoval, here. I wanted to share an update on the progress of the Canvas of the Heart podcast for Art Heals Arizona. I’m happy to report that we have successfully completed the podcast’s first season! Throughout the summer, we were able to feature a diverse group of guests...
Art Heals Arizona Camp Series 2023 kicked off June 5th, beginning with Theater Camp, and was concluded with two Multicultural Arts Camps: MAC 1 and MAC 2.
It’s been a little over a year since Phonetic Spit, a unique Valley nonprofit with similar goals and values to Art Heals Arizona, partnered with us to form Mic Check, a monthly teen and young adult open mic event held at Parsons Place every third Saturday of the month.
As springtime has us warming back up here in Arizona, Art Heals Arizona decided it was a great time to rekindle our long-time partnership with the Desert Botanical Garden and bring the children we serve a Art Heals Arizona Day!
Participating families in our new program. We all start somewhere to build resilience. With this new program, it aims to connect families with a supportive community. 2022 was a year of growth and opportunities of expansion for our programs. One of the opportunities has been the creation of the Foster and Kinship Family Program. This...
Our Weekly Mentor Program this past summer created masks at one of our participating partner child welfare agencies. The Weekly Mentor Program is making a comeback in a strong way! Over the past fiscal year, children and their mentors created everything art-related. From DIY board games and their ideal villages to colorful masks and detailed...
Art Heals Arizona made a positive impact locally in our recent partnership with Miss Scottsdale Outstanding Teen. Sophia Lin reached out to Art Heals Arizona because she related to our mission: “Transforming children’s trauma to resilience through the arts.”
This year Art Heals Arizona has teamed up with Phonetic Spit, a local non-profit whose mission is to create brave spaces that help young people find, develop, and publicly present their voices as agents of social change.
With the arrival of COVID, words like “unprecedented” and “pivoting” and “lock down” became common language to all of us. Art Heals Arizona was no exception.
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted our normal routines, the way we work, and the way we connect with people. There have been new and innovative ways to communicate, and for organizations like Art Heals Arizona, to still engage with the populations that they serve. In this quest for innovation and connectedness, some new bonds with old...
