MIDDLETOWN >> This weekend at Middletown Art Center (MAC), artists Sage Abella and Lisa Kaplan offer the community an opportunity to process the stress of being on fire alert through a painting and mixed media approach to visual expression. This class is part of the Resilience Project and open to adults of all ages and teens 12 and up from Lake County and beyond. The class will be held today from noon to 5 p.m. at MAC for just $5. All levels of experience from novice to professional are welcome.
The guiding question is What Did You Grab To Go? One’s evacuation vehicle’s contents are testament to what is meaningful to each person, like a painting or poem. Tables of colors, collageable items, glues, glitters, brushes and colored papers will be available in abundance to participants. Participants will have a chance to express and release through artistic play, then connect to resources for those now in need, and each one’s innate strength to live with nature’s time-honored changes.
MAC has been offering a safe space to engage with the arts and process fire trauma since October of 2015.
Resilience classes cycle through Photography, Creative Writing, Painting and Printmaking every first through fourth Saturday of the month (with few exceptions for holidays and special events). Inspired by nature’s regeneration after the fires as a way to reflect on one’s own resilience, the project’s key goal is to provide low cost access to art classes to bring the arts into more people’s lives. The project will culminate in countywide exhibits and a self-published book of poetry and images created during the project. MAC’s Resilience project is made possible thanks to support from a Local Impact Grant from the California Arts Council and support from Adventist Health.
To reserve a spot as space is limited, visit MiddletownArtCenter.org/resilience, email Middletownartcenter@gmail.com, or call 707-809-8118. Middletown Art Center is a non-profit for the arts located at 21456 State Hwy 175 at the corner of Hwy 29 in Middletown.
