Tuesday, January 31, 2017

31: Inspire Your Heart with Open Hearts Art Center

January 31 is Inspire Your Heart with Art Day, and the Open Hearts Art Center is an inspiration every day. Empowering people and doing it with art therapy, "A Lil' About Us: Open Hearts Art Center is dedicated to serving adults with a variety of challenges including developmental, mental, physical and emotional disabilities… and we have a boat-load of fun doing it." (http://openheartsartcenter.org) Art, fun, and hoping differently-abled people - I definitely see that as inspiring the heart with art. 
Open Hearts offers therapeutic art programs and "provides the unique opportunity for differently abled adults to express themselves using a variety of creative avenues. Through innovative and stimulating forms of expression, we have witnessed firsthand, how individuals begin to define themselves using words like “skilled”, “talented”, “gifted”. Our everyday goal is to redirect the focus from what our students are unable to accomplish, and instead emphasize their many, and vast abilities." (http://openheartsartcenter.org/programs/)
Open Heart Studio Day Program offers classes in visual and performing arts, with many different styles of art being explored such as dance, painting, writing, sculpture and more. With the Open Hearts Artist Exhibition Program, the artists can exhibit and sell their art throughout the community. The Boundless Art Program support students in various ways outside the center. Whether it is field trips, museum tours, satellite course or more, Open Hearts opens the boundaries to inspire artists and provides an excellent education foundation to empower the art and artists they serve. 
Here is the gallery page that shows both events and studio art to inspire your heart today http://openheartsartcenter.org/gallery/. If you're in western North Carolina, there are many opportunities for you to get involved whether you're artistic or not, and you can see those here: http://openheartsartcenter.org/get-involved/.
Have a great day and I hope you find art to inspire your heart as much as Open Hearts inspires mine.



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