Art to Change the World’s Maker Space Project Partners with Emma Norton Services for new Heart + Home: Artwork that Heals project.
Twenty-three local artists were selected by a jury process to create new or sell existing artwork for Emma Norton’s Restoring Waters Call for Artists project. Emma Norton provides transformational housing and growth to women and families on their journey of recovery. Restoring Waters will provide supportive housing to 60+ individuals and small families who have often experienced homelessness and trauma, and who have a mental health diagnosis, chemical dependency and/or other chronic health condition or disability. Read More: https://emmanorton.org.
Restoring Waters Project Basics: Two Parts to Our Project
1. High quality, professionally presented artworks created.
2. Artists have the opportunity to help create and supply an art room and commit to teach ONE 2 hour class in each two-month cycle of weekly art classes. $200 stipend. Training Provided.
Restoring Waters Artists:
Lori Blanchard, Carmen Gutierrez-Bolger, Madeline (Lin) Boemer , Lynnette K. Black, Barbara Bridges, Sam Connaire, Kat Corrigan, Kelly Frankenberg, Rebecca Froehlich, Toni Gallo, S Robin Getsug, SAM Greene, Mindy Johnson, Anna Karena, Natalie McGuire, Cynthia Mauleon, Layl McDill, Kim Anne Reedich, Samantha St. John, Jennifer A. Schultz, Lucienne Schroepfer, Sadie Ward, and Briauna Williams. Meet The 2024 Artists
See the Classes Offered in 2024
Project Gallery
See PHOTOS From the Art Classes HERE.
Basic Art Room Needed SUPPLIES
Emma Norton Survey Outcomes
The residents named “All the classes” as their most favorite with the Spirit Jeweler and Tissue Paper emerging at the top of the list.
Sewing, Step-By-Step instructional painting, making earrings and making baskets emerged as classes they would like to see going forward.
Improvements: Better acrylic paints, get the word out about the classes.
De-Brief Meeting Agenda
- Introductions
- Share Missions and Goals
- Fall 2024 Classes—what went well, what can be improved
- 2025 Classes & Supplies —budget, timeline, priorities
- Communication (between partners & with residents)
- Funding Opportunities
- Other
History
Emma Norton Services has purchased approximately 90 medium sized works @ $300 each so that each resident moving in will be able to choose a piece of original local art for their new apartment. Restoring Waters was built through a trauma-informed lens and Emma Norton sought artwork that promotes healing and empowerment, while also helping residents feel safe and supported. Click here to read what the residents were dreaming of in a pre-project resident survey: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/emma-norton-resident-survey/. The works will belong to the new Restoring Waters residents and may be utilized in some common areas as well. In addition to creating artwork for residents, another objective is to create community among the residents and staff of Emma Norton and the ACW artists for further collaboration in the new space, including art classes in the new art room on site.
Quotes
Jacki: OMG . I am so IN LOVE with EVERY PIECE IN THIS ROOM! ugh!!!! B E A U T I F U L ! I hope Staff get in on this and can choose a piece-if not, that’s fine but O M G! i LOVE THIS ROOM AND EVERY PIECE HERE THANK YOU ACW
Norton’s Alex Dalbey-Thomas Shares: “Access to nature is a vital part of trauma-informed care, and recovering from trauma. The cultural move to prioritize access to nature for people in recovery is social justice!”
Shawna Nelsen-Wills, Advancement Director
“Emma Norton’s partnership with Art to Change the World has been incredible and added so much value to our new supportive housing residence in Highland Bridge called Restoring Waters. Emma Norton residents often come directly from homelessness and have faced much violence and trauma. By empowering local artists through ACW–including several current and past Emma Norton residents–to create healing artwork, we are building community and providing our residents with a beautiful piece of original artwork to help their apartments feel like home. We are also excited to start art classes with ACW artists in our new art room in the fall—adding another layer of healing through art into our partnership! I am so grateful to Tom Fulton for connecting us to Barbara and ACW, and for their shared vision of utilizing art to help change the world!”
Celebration
