Art for the Journey

Art for the Journey is a team of artists, educators, former health professionals, and community activists dedicated to promoting well-being, connection, and resilience through creative expression throughout Central Virginia. We believe that art is healing.

Art for The Journey was formed by a group of three artists who had experienced in their own lives the well-being and health benefits of communal art-making and were inspired to take their art experience and offer it to others, especially people at-risk and vulnerable due to age, disabilities, disease, social stigma or other barrier that keeps them in social isolation. With a mission to "transform lives through art and community" the nonprofit was organized on June 19, 2014 and over the next ten years created and refined a transformational communal art-making model and and applied it to underserved and medically challenged children, older adults with dementia andAlzheimer’s, veterans with service related disabilities/PTSD, women in prison, women recovering from addiction, and people suffering from any form of social isolation.