Our Workshops

Artists for Trauma holds a wide array of small to large scale, adaptive arts and entertainment workshops to provide and facilitate empowering healing experiences for participating adult trauma survivors, their family members and care givers.A large unique component of Artists For Trauma (AFT) is the wonderful generosity of our volunteer AFT artists. These artists are established and highly acclaimed in their various disciplines and artistic communities and richly give back to the community through the blessing of their talent.

 

Through strategic partnerships, Artists for Trauma, our volunteer artists and other local, national and international individuals and organizations collaborate to provide adaptive, post acute, integrative health services to disfigured and disabled trauma survivors. Artists for Trauma staff and artists facilitate our signature creative, compassionate, free of charge, body, mind and spirit workshops.

 

We invite you to observe the joyful transformation and impact of the extraordinary Artists for Trauma healing through art experience for the recovering trauma survivor.

Artists For Trauma and Smart Art Box donated to support New Earth by empowering their students through the arts, always and especially during these uncertain COVID19 physical distancing times. Thank you to the leadership of AFT Director of Volunteer Artists, Melanie Gordon, for cultivating this new...

Artists For Trauma’s "Sew to Slow COVID19" was designed to support our first responders in the hospitals and communities during this critical life altering COVID19 health pandemic. We are looking for fabric and sewing supply donations, cutters sewers, seamstresses and tailors to help make Medical Masks...

Artists For Trauma and Smart Art Box INVITES YOU to a private, catered, VIP focus group related to ART and ABILITIES. OUR GOAL: To provide you multiple, artistic mediums AND accessibility support products that you will rate on enjoyment and ease of usage. Based on the winning metrics...

Thanks & Giving! Smart Art Box and Artists for Trauma’s November art supply donation went towards UCLA OperationMend and their support of our wounded warriors! “Operation Mend provides advanced surgical and medical treatment for post-9/11-era warriors injured during combat operations or while training for service, as well as...

Associated Students of Moorpark College and Artists for Trauma present the Healing Arts Festival! November 7, 2019 10am to 2pm Upper Campus Quad at Moorpark College Join us in commemorating the one year anniversary of the Borderline Shooting and the Woolsey Fire by exposing community members to healing through...

  Explore… Engage… Thrive Going Artists for Trauma at the 5th Annual Adaptive Sports Expo on Friday, October 11, 2019 from 10am to 3pm at the VA Long Beach 5901 E. 7th Street Bldg. 150 Parking Lot “H” Long Beach, CA 90822 Come Experience… Cycling, Wheelchair Rugby, Rockwall, Boccia Ball, Wheelchair...

Karen Michelle presents the Celebration Expo on Sunday, September 15, 2019 at the Luxe Sunset Blvd. Hotel. Artists for Trauma is proud to sponsor and be a part of Love Your Body’s Celebration Expo with The Knot. The amazingly dapper Tobias Forrest, an Artists for...

  Classiqu’ Era and Artists for Trauma aligned for a soft launch and trunk show for the Classiqu’ Era Collection at a private home in Los Angeles. “Born of desire to answer the decades old question asked by multitudes of women: ‘Why can’t I find a great...

  “With every fiber of clothing, it is the Beautiful Disaster mission to empower the Beautifully Broken, and Perfectly Imperfect. Beautiful Disaster Clothing and Artists for Trauma are coming together for powerful collaboration on May 9, 2019. AFT is dedicated to enriching the lives of both civilian and...

Join Artists for Trauma at our Graffiti Mixed Media and Kinetic Sand Workshops at Triumph Foundation’s Wheelchair Sports Festival Saturday, April 27, 2019 and Sunday, April 28, 2019 Santa Clarita Sports Complex 20870 Centre Pointe Pkwy Santa Clarita, CA 91350 This event is open to people of ALL abilities, able-body...