River Arts is excited to partner with SafeArt to provide an online hand-building class to individuals participating in SafeArt’s Healing Arts Imaginative Care Unit (HAICU). SafeArt participants will join River Arts instructor Jude Prashaw for six weeks in a supportive and nurturing online space.

SafeArt, located in Chelsea Vermont, is an organization of trauma-informed practitioners who engage creative expression, mindfulness, movement, social action, and connection to the natural world. We promote community wellness, healing and social change in Central Vermont, the Upper Valley and beyond.

Jude Prashaw has been a core instructor with River Arts for a long time. Previously facilitating healing arts sessions for the Recovery Center

About Jude:

I Tried To Contain Myself But I Escaped: my life, my art - exploring possibilities through clay, paper-clay, metal, paint and words. My art (and writing) reflects my ongoing conversation with poetry, stories, dreams, tragedy, loss, laughter and humor. Masks, boats, sculptures and paintings become icon-like responses to questions that I have asked for a long time:

How do we journey within our world?

What helps us stay afloat?

Where do we find mercy?

When did we become so serious?

The urge to create is like the urge to breathe; vital to my life.