Healing

Art Therapy plays an important role in the treatment, development and enrichment of patients and is a great way to use your talents to minster to others.

If you would like to become an art therapist check out The American Art Therapy Association for some useful information. 

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Masterpiece Ministries

“Young artists do not often fit in well with church sponsored youth programs that emphasize physical recreation. To close the gap, Masterpiece Ministries was founded in 1995 to help young people identify and develop their gifts in the arts and to encourage them to become whole hearted followers of Jesus Christ”. This is the mission and [...]

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A Journey on Canvas

The Lilly Oncology on Canvas exhibition and charitable competition gives visual artists who are: diagnosed with cancer, surviors, friends, family members and health care professionals the opportunity to express on canvas one of life’s most profound journeys. Developed by the Eli LIlly Company the competition is a way to honor those who have embarked upon this journey and [...]

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Kinship

According to Founder Mary Ann Rosser, Kinship Ministries’  goal is to “win as many people as we can for Christ… and to give artists a venue to display, share, and use their skills, talents and gifts to reach people by building relationships within their particular area of expertise.”

Basically they’re looking for talented visual artists (that’s you) who’d [...]

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Raising Awareness

“Our mission is to promote awareness and raise financial support to feed, shelter and educate these children.” 
This is the desire of the founders of The Cradle Project.  Its an art installation project designed to raise awareness of the plight of children orphaned in Africa.

Basically visual artists create cradles out of found materials and the artwork [...]

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Books of Hope

Books of Hope’s motto is: Planting seeds of friendship and learning around the world”.
They are an organization based in the US which sends books which are created by groups to schools around the world.
Basically, if you are part of an art, church or school group, this is a wonderful way for you and your group [...]

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Art for Hospitals – Using your talents to comfort the sick

The Foundation For Hospital Art
is an organization which is dedicated to involving patients and volunteers worldwide (in 179 countries) to create calming, beautiful artwork to be donated to hospitals to help soften the sometimes stressful hospital experience.
They welcome our love and support in their mission of compassion through art.

They believe that the traditional hospital setting: [...]

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Artists + Shoes = Ministry

There is a wonderful ministry which was started by Tom’s Shoes.  Their commitment is to match every pair of shoes purchased with a donation to a child in need. Our church did this at Christmas.

Basically everyone who participated purchased a pair of the white canvas shoes and painted or designed them. The purchased shoes were [...]

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