Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) represent significant burdens for those afflicted, their caregivers, and military and civilian healthcare delivery systems. New approaches are urgently needed to help active service members suffering from PTSD & TBI thrive on duty and successfully transition to civilian life.
The application of creative and expressive therapies as part of treatment plans has recently shown significant and sustained benefit at leading institutions such as Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the National Intrepid Center of Excellence, and various VA institutions across thecountry.
http://www.artandhealing.org/initiative/ptsd/
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An amazing use of art media to tell a story that demands action. Second showing in New Mexico later this month.
Hampshire College: Art and Social Action Program
The arts can help us break through the invisibility, the felt unknown of exclusion, and the shaping power of racism in American life. They can dislodge arrogance, certainty, conformity, and normality. Arts enable us to be surprised and moved, opening up the center, collapsing it, imploding it, and ultimately allowing us to recognize the creativity of and from the margins—where it’s not supposed to be.
Art doesn’t legislate change. It imagines change. (from their website)
The Beehive Collective
visit to see Artist in Social Action
http://store.beehivecollective.org/
http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/front.htm a graphic arts collective for social justice
Excellent movie about social activist and artist Ai WeiWei and his political work in China
Art for Social Action 