
Mar 18, 2014
Mar 5, 2014
FAC and AspenPointe class wins statewide Impact Award
The
class Military
Artistic Healing, a collaboration between the healthcare services organization AspenPointe and the Colorado Springs
Fine Arts Center’s Bemis School of Art won the Impact Award Wednesday at
the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts’ annual Business for the Arts
Awards in Denver.
The CBCA’s Impact Award “highlights (the) innovative use of
the arts to propel business success, programs that engage employees with
creativity and other community activities that support arts and business
partnerships.”
“This partnership with AspenPointe and the other
organizations has certainly helped us reach out to our local warriors with a
program that we see making a real difference in their lives,” says the Fine
Arts Center’s Director of Education Tara Thomas. “We’re honored to have the
CBCA recognize the work we’re doing.”
Military men and women have described the program, which started in 2009,
as a life-altering experience.
“It’s allowed me to start
seeing the positives,” says Army Staff Sgt. Bobby Mathis, a member of Fort
Carson’s Warrior Transition Unit.
“Military Artistic Healing Program
has been an amazing journey for me and continues to do so” says current student
Army Cpl. Eric Cruzat. “Kim, Tara, and the program as well as others involved
have assisted me through art to continually fight my demons on a daily basis
and give me hope for a better future.”
“Creative processes have the
capacity to reveal, to heal and to transform anyone who's open and willing to
fully engage in the program,” says class instructor Kim Nguyen.
The 15-week mutli-media art therapy class also receives support from the University of Colorado at Colorado
Springs (which provides college credits) and the U.S. Air Force Academy
Hospital (which provides art display space). The current class runs through May
6.
Military
Artistic Healing was the only Colorado Springs-based program to win an
award.
For more information, please contact Tara Thomas at the FAC’s Bemis school
of art: 719-477-4314 or tthomas@csfineartscenter.org.
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