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VETART OPEN HOUSE
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VETART in the NewsSecond Lady Karen Pence pictured left represents VETART.org by wearing one our T-shirts on Veterans Day!
Mrs. Pence focuses on Art Therapy as an important resource, and has toured several art therapy studios nation-wide. This last summer Mrs. Pence's Office reached out to VETART Art Therapist Jill Brenegan, and their correspondence resulted in the Second Lady paying a visit to the VETART School of Ceramics and Glass. |
The VETART School of Foundry is closed until further notice.Unfortunately, due to a lack of funding, VETART has been forced to suspend our beloved School of Foundry. We are asking for your help.
We are at a critical juncture. If you have information or personal connections to any potential help or foundations willing to support Veterans Health through the Arts, please consider connecting VETART to the source. And please, consider helping us to continue our mission with a donation to our programming. Maybe you know of a friend of a friend? We need all hands on deck to keep our foundry open. Share your own personal story about your experience with VETART among your contacts. Did you enjoy yourself? Did you make something really cool? Did you do something fun with your spouse? If you have a connection please introduce us. The cost of this program is a small amount for a foundation. e-mail info@vetart.org. We are hopeful that we can find a partner that will help us reopen the Foundry and continue our mission of Changing Lives Through Art. The VETART School of Ceramics and Glass remains open in Vista, CA. Thank You, The VETART Team |
Since 2009, VETART has offered free Art classes for Veterans, Active duty, Spouses and caregivers. These classes have been well received.
Since 2015, VETART has offered lost-wax bronze-casting classes in Fallbrook, at what eventually became the VETART School of Foundry. Along with our regular classes for Veterans, Active Duty, spouses, and care-givers, we also partnered with the Intrepid Spirit Center and have ongoing collaborations with the VA La Jolla, and the Aspire Center. The Foundry was five days a week and always bustling with activity. Over the past three years, our Foundry Manager Scott Hickey and Instructor Reginald Green have persevered and offered a bronze-casting experience to hundreds of participants and their families. The quality of the portraits and bells they produced with participants is of the highest caliber. 
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VETART and Wellness
"VETART believes that because of the deep social and emotional programming happening with members of the Military community, it is imperative for some to access the time and the facilities to adjust to life outside the military. Art making in a community setting goes directly to the heart of the matter, allowing service members to create new connections with family members, spouses, dependents, and caregivers. These connections are indicative of the internal connective landscape - social, emotional, or even neuro connections - allowing for new neuro-plastic connections within our own bodies' electrical system. What does this mean? Wellness comes from a host of positive influences leading to stability in housing, employment, family and personal lives"
Steve Dilley, Executive Director of VETART
Steve Dilley, Executive Director of VETART
