As We Are is a bi-weekly open art-making group with a therapeutic intention that gives BIPOC individuals an opportunity to be a community while engaging in art therapy interventions in a therapeutically held safe space. Hosted by Pre-licensed Art Therapist Imani Shanklin Roberts, this open group will be an opportunity to establish a deeper sense of awareness, build inner and group harmony, and ultimately move toward individual and collective healing. Using a variety of mediums, participants will utilize creative pathways to externalize, transgress, and transmute issues related to stress, isolation, fear, anxiety, safety, love, and so much more within communion with others.

As We Are is a bi-weekly open art-making group with a therapeutic intention that gives BIPOC individuals an opportunity to be a community while engaging in art therapy interventions in a therapeutically held safe space. Hosted by Pre-licensed Art Therapist Imani Shanklin Roberts, this open group will be an opportunity to establish a deeper sense of awareness, build inner and group harmony, and ultimately move toward individual and collective healing. Using a variety of mediums, participants will utilize creative pathways to externalize, transgress, and transmute issues related to stress, isolation, fear, anxiety, safety, love, and so much more within communion with others.

Our space sponsor is The Chela Mitchell Gallery, which truly embodies their mission to be rooted in community cultivation, the richness of culture, and the amplification of unique voices in fine art and design in their support of this group. 

AS WE ARE will begin Thursday, February 13th, and meet on the second Thursday of the month before ending in June. As We Are will serve participants in an open group format which allows for a dynamic group each session. This group allows participants to move through art therapy interventions with a Pre-licensed art therapist without the steep financial commitment of formal therapy costs. This group invites BIPOC individuals an opportunity to be vulnerable and create a healing container within an intentional affinity space.