Mosesian Center for the Arts will host “Art and Healing,” an art exhibit focused on how art and healing are related. A reception will be held on March 26. See details in the announcement from the MCA, below.
At Mosesian Arts artists are exploring the ideas of art and healing as interconnected, and artmaking as a process that can help overcome grief and find joy.
Art and Healing
Dates: March 20–May 1, 2026
Art’s healing potential is well known. While art is not medicine, it can promote healing through inspiration and creativity. The process of creating can be calming and meditative. It can offer ways to express one’s emotions and find ways to talk about traumatic events, illness, upheavals – but also joy and triumph. Art can express and communicate what sometimes is hard to put into words. It can also harness the power of healing that is in all of us. Creativity promotes a positive outlook and offers a pause from the daily routine.
Art and Healing Exhibition explores ideas of art as a meditation practice and celebrates art’s restorative powers.
Heather Carroll’s Fragment No. 14 “emerges from a space where grief, memory and rebirth converge.”
The artist writes: “Since the passing of my grandfather in 2019 and the loss of my first baby in 2023, I’ve carried these profound absences with me in my body, my home and in my art. The birth of my daughter in 2024 marked not only a return to life, but a rebirth to my creative voice – more layered, raw and reflective than before.
I now approach each piece as an act of both mourning and celebration – honoring the lives that shaped me, the one’s I’ve lost and the new one I hold close. This duality lives in my materials: remnants from past works are pieced together with newly found objects; aged textiles meet fresh paint, salvaged hardware beside delicate thread. Like old souls in a contemporary language.
There is a haunting warmth to the process one that comforts and unsettles at once. Repetition and organization offer me structure, a rhythm to hold onto when the world feels unruly. Yet within that structure I allow space for impulse and intuition.” Tova Speter’s Spring is based on the artist’s belief that “engaging in artmaking is inherently therapeutic and formative and that art helps us connect with each other and with ourselves.” She says, “My studio practice has focused on utilizing found wood as a conduit for an exploration of the energy found within. The grain serves as my guide on a journey into the lines, shapes, and flow of the composition of the wood. I transform pieces of scrap wood (that others thought of as nothing more than trash) into works of art highlighting each piece’s natural greatness with an interest in sustainability as well as encouraging perspective and reverence towards our natural world. Spring represents resilience, growth, and the cyclical nature of the seasons and our lives as it plays on the idea of a spring as a spiral that moves multi-dimensionally. We may return to a past place or memory, but we will never experience it the same because we ourselves have grown and changed. Spring is also flexible and moves us forward into places of new possibilities.”
Art and Healing is on display at the Mosesian Center for the Arts from March 20–May 1. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, March 26, 5:30–7:30 p.m. The mission of The Mosesian Center for the Arts is to enrich the lives of diverse audiences and participants by providing exceptional experiences in theater, visual, and literary art.
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