Photos and storyline updates will be added as the project is completed. Mural Celebration to be announced soon! ... Tenor High School Mural: In the News Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Milwaukee Students paint mural for Tenor High School with Tia Richardson   Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Public invited to contribute to Milwaukee muralist’s latest work Milwaukee Magazine  Milwaukee’s next community mural a school-wide effort Urban Milwaukee  New Large-scale community mural planned at Tenor High School

After facilitating community design w orkshops for the Kenosha Coalition for Dismantling Racism mural project last fall, getting a wall (a year-long process), finishing the design and having a community design reveal, we started community painting this weekend. Our last comunity paint day is tomorrow. All are welcome! Pics and more to come! Sunday, August 30th  2pm-6pm Kenosha Lakeshore Veterinary Clinic 612 59th St. Kenosha, WI https://maps.app.goo.gl/ F2YAsDmUdzpquj2j6?g_st=ic Finishing touches will be added over the rest of September. If you are interested in volunteering as an artist assistant, or have a group that would be interested in participating, please contact Tia. For more info about the Coalition and its work, visit  https://www.facebook.com/ share/1GM2zZAitM/?mibextid= wwXIfr Questions about the mural project: Cameron Swallow, KCFDR board member:  cameron.swallow@gmail.com The project made the front page of Kenosha News :  https://kenoshanews.com/ news/...

If you’re in the Madison area, drop by the Monona library with your kids for storytime and a therapeutic watercolors activity from the companion workbook afterward! Watercolor illustrations from the book will be shown on a large screen during the story, immersing kids in their imaginations. Copies will be for sale. Follow @mononalibrary. For their calendar visit: www.mononalibrary.org

  Connecting to our Nature through Art originally published in Visionary Viewpoints  magazine as "Connecting through Art" by Tia Richardson Have you ever noticed when you're out in nature, or having gone for a run, or connected meaningfully with friends – you feel more rejuvenated, more  alive?  It's hard to define or even get to at times, especially when we're feeling threatened or isolated, but when we feel moved we all know that feeling – of caring, of compassion, of belonging.  The more we're in touch with what we feel and sense the better we can promote our individual and collective health and well-being. We all deserve to live in a happy, healthy society. Thankfully, our natural senses know what that's about, if only we tune into them! Despite our struggles, there is a fascinating movement underway bridging arts, public health, and healing that I want to share. Music and the arts help people tune into their natural sensitivities  and better relate to...