Heart Space Art Studio
Process > Product
Heart Space is a process forward art studio that focuses on creating opportunities for mind-body connection and healing through art and movement.
Providing you with a safe space to spark your creativity and follow your curiosity. At Heart Space, we believe the art process is a wonderful way to better understand yourself and the world around you.
Our goal is to offer access to the art making experience and build community. With collaborators with various backgrounds, each class and workshop is meant to serve the community and create opportunities for connection, creativity and open minded art making.
An art therapy inspired community space.
What is Art Therapy?
"Art therapy is a mental health profession that enriches the lives of individuals, families, and communities through active art-making, creative process, applied psychological theory, and human experience within a psychotherapeutic relationship.
Art therapy, facilitated by a professional art therapist, effectively supports personal and relational treatment goals as well as community concerns. Art therapy is used to improve cognitive and sensorimotor functions, foster self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivate emotional resilience, promote insight, enhance social skills, reduce and resolve conflicts and distress, and advance societal and ecological change”
-American Art Therapy Association
If I attend a group, workshop or class am I doing art therapy?
While working with a trained art therapy professional is the truest form of art therapy, at Heart Space we also believe that art making, in and of itself, is therapeutic. If you attend a workshop, class or open studio, you will likely feel the benefits of engaging with the arts and we believe that is therapeutic, however, unless it is otherwise noted with consent forms, the offerings are not therapy nor a replacement for therapy.