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Family First: Art as Meditation
- Ages:
- 6+
- Cost:
- $10 per participant
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About This Program
Inspired by the bright colors and patterns of Minnie Evans, this art workshop will take you through organic doodle-making to create a beautiful marker and watercolor art piece, while showing you an easy technique to calm anxiety, bringing you back to yourself. Explore color, shape, and rhythmic patterns in this workshop that is sure to calm the mind, and the body and bring peace to the spirit.
Family First is presented by Novant Health
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About the Teaching Artist
Shane Manier is a Creative Coach, Visual Artist, Tedx Keynote Speaker, Trauma Informed Care Instructor, Poetry Mentor, and National Spoken Word Poet based in the Charlotte Metro Region of NC. She is the founder of Guerilla Poets, a nonprofit art collective with branches in the US and UK, and the founder of The National Poetry Month Summit, an online summit that connects and supports poets all across the US. She is a Spoken Word and Arts Teaching Instructor for the Harvey B. Gantt Center, Arts Empowerment Project, Henderson High School, Playing for Others, as well as Center for Faith in the Arts permanent Artist-in-Residence.
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