The Art Heals Project
The Mental Health Chaplaincy, in partnership with St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, currently runs an outreach program for Seattle residents called The Art Heals Project (formerly The Karen Korn Creativity Project).
The project was created in memory of Karen Korn, who lived her life creatively and died by suicide after she lived for a short time in homelessness and struggled with mental illness.
The Art Heals Project aims to provide a place and time for free creative activity with hearty snacks, companioning relationships and respectful engagement, and to care for those in isolation or disadvantaged circumstances.
On Tuesdays, from 3:00-5:30pm, we offer hope through creativity by partaking in artistic expression together! Each week holds opportunities for jewelry making, knitting, drawing/coloring, writing/poetry, music, and much, much more.
To donate to the Art Heals Project via check, please make the check out to Mental Health Chaplaincy with “Art Heals” in the memo line.
The Art Heals Project was featured on a local radio station, KNKX and you can listen to accounts of our Project:
http://www.knkx.org/post/unique-art-space-helps-mother-salvage-meaning-unthinkable-loss
“The Karen Korn Project is a rare space that embraces the relationship between creativity and spirituality and that allows for the reclaiming of human dignity. This is a space where any body—participants, volunteers, visitors—can enter and find companionship, dignity, laughter, and love.”
–Project Volunteer
