Arts As Healing

Visual artist Lillian Gardner sits next to her nine-panel paintings at the Griot Museum of Black History. Gardner is one of seven artists who will showcase their work at the museum as part of the exhibit "Listen, Look: A Reconciliatory Journey to Black Grief and Black Joy" on Saturday.

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Black St. Louis Artists Explore Generations Of Racial Trauma And How Joy Heals

Andrea Y. Henderson

Today, Black artists are describing the trauma of police brutality, the agony of seeing friends suffer violent deaths and the pain of losing loved ones to COVID-19. Black artists in the St. Louis region will showcase works that connect grief and joy in a virtual exhibit from the Griot Museum of Black History on Saturday.

MADCO's show "Resilience" explores the impact of trauma through movement.

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MADCO’s 'Resilience' Focuses On Battling Adversity With Movement

Emily Woodbury

Modern American Dance Company’s new show “Resilience” is not what you might picture when you consider a dance performance. The MADCO show features four…

In addition to being a cancer survivor, Kathy McGee (at left) is also now an artist. Her creative growth is the result of her longtime participation in Arts As Healing classes. Vicki Friedman (at right) is the organization’s executive director.

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Arts As Healing classes offer respite as cancer patients become ‘lost in what they’re creating'

Evie Hemphill

Kathy McGee had just recently completed her cancer treatments when she visited Arts As Healing for the first time. She wasn’t exactly sure what she was…

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Healing arts: Photos, paintings inspire and comfort

Nancy Fowler

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Jan. 3, 2013 - By the time Antoinette Crayton of Florissant finished radiation treatments after a…