Open art studio offers sexual assault survivors healing in Ravenswood

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By Carolyn Talya Cakir There is a still that settles around the room as people begin to create. Surrounded by art created by sexual assault survivors, eight people sit at two fold-out tables in the center of The Awakenings Foundation art gallery in Ravenswood. They are participating in Making Matters, an open art studio session […]

Painting a picture: Art can help people cope with Parkinson’s , Alzheimer’s

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By Talia Beechick When Renee Le Verrier saw her first-grade son Pedro paint for the first time 10 years ago,  she decided to give it a try, despite recently having been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. “I watched him fill the page, no concern for whether it ‘looked right,’ but with abandon to the process – […]