ST. GEORGE’S SHOW BENEFITS AMANDA’S EASEL
Amanda’s Easel Program Coordinator Cindi Westendorf is pictured with volunteers in the children’s art gallery at the 2013 Canterbury Art Show. The locally based art therapy program will once again get an assist from this year’s show, scheduled for Labor Day weekend.
Press release from St. George’s by the River
The organizers of the annual Canterbury Art Show…a Tapestry of the Arts event have announced that a portion of proceeds from the 2014 event will once again benefit the work of Amanda’s Easel, a creative arts therapy program administered through the Monmouth County-based nonprofit 180 Turning Lives Around.
The exhibition and sale of juried and non-juried artwork will take place on Labor Day weekend, August 29-31,at St. George’s by the River Episcopal Church in Rumson.
Amanda’s Easel, the nationally recognized creative arts therapies program, is designed to create a support system to help both children and their non-offending parents cope with the life changes precipitated by violence and abuse. The program provides art, play and music therapy that promotes healing, by encouraging clients to express and understand their feelings and fears in a safe and nurturing environment, through various creative arts intervention and case management services.