With support from the California Arts Council, BELL ARTS FACTORY (BAF) will provide El Circulo de Amigas (a growing circle of local BIPOC women with artists and wellness facilitators) with space and funding for community workshops and events which dynamically combine art-making with wellness education and practices. The series is designed to inspire and foster collective dialogues and practices around wellness as an expression of creativity, vitality, self-referral. Regular reflection around common ancestral traditions that once supported wellbeing will also be routinely woven in to the art-making process.
During this grant cycle, ECA will complete monthly drop-in art + restorative wellness gatherings; 3 quarterly courses (each 5 weeks long); 2 wellness fairs and one exhibit of works created in during monthly drop-in gatherings, with onsite arts-based childcare provided for participants’ children (ages 4-10).