CASSA Arts Workshop 2015-2016
 
 
With the continuing support from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, the CASSA Arts Workshop under the direction of Ruth Stenstrom, ATR-BC, is entering into its 27th year of providing arts services for participants of Clean & Sober Streets. This year the Workshop is being assisted by two George Washington University graduate art therapy interns -- Kiyoko Timmons and Amanda Wise.
 

Acrylic on Canvas by Jeffrey T.

Museum Trip to Hirshhorn Gallery

Mixed Media on Paper by Robert W

“The Path to Recovery”

Acrylic on Canvas by Andrew J.

Digital Art by Gabriel F.

Fused Glass Pendants on display at

National Geographic Holiday Craft show

Along with the arts program participants have gone on museum trips to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery of Art, the Sackler Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Gallery, the newly-re-opened Renwick Gallery “Wonder” exhibit, the African Art Museum, the American Indian Museum, the Botanical Gardens and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. In December, examples of the fused glass program were displayed at a Holiday Craft Show at the National Geographic headquarters. On July 7, 2016 our artwork were displayed at the American Art Therapy Association National Conference in Baltimore. Ruth Stenstrom was chosen for the PATA May 2016 Art Therapist Spotlight, focusing on the history of her work with the program. The CASSA Arts Workshop is funded in part by the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.http://www.potomacarttherapy.org/art-therapist-spotlight.htmlhttp://www.potomacarttherapy.org/art-therapist-spotlight.htmlshapeimage_4_link_0shapeimage_4_link_1