World Mental Health Day: Free Art Activity
Thu, Oct 10
|Ocean Springs
Time & Location
Oct 10, 2024, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Ocean Springs, 510 Washington Ave, Ocean Springs, MS 39564, USA
About The Event
Join us for World Mental Health Day on Thursday, Oct 10, 2024Â from 11AM-2PM in the Ocean Springs Community Center for a FREE art activity for all ages.
Art was a healing practice for Walter Anderson. He created throughout his lifetime, using art as a tool to process the world around him. While at the beginning of his career he produced art for the end product, after his trip to China in 1949, he began creating art for the sake of creation. Like Anderson, we will be focusing on painting mandalas in this workshop, not for the end product but for the act of creation and the therapeutic experience.
Mandala creation is a common practice in art therapy. The practice of creating mandalas is used as a tool to quiet the mind and allow it to work through various internal struggles. The mandala is found in cultures throughout the world following…