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 | A Window Between Worlds (AWBW)
A nonprofit organization dedicated to using art to help end domestic violence. Through creative expression, battered women and children gain a sense of renewal and power. Their images of hope, survival and strength educate the public and become "a window between worlds" for survivors taking steps to change their lives.
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 | Accessible Arts, Inc
A not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing equal access to the arts for children and youth with physical, emotional and psychological disabilities. Accessible Arts began as the Kansas State Board of Education Arts with the Handicapped Program in 1980 and was incorporated as an independent arts and disabilities organization in 1988. Our mission is to champion the arts for children with disabilities and advocate access to the arts.
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 | Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
is a forum for sharing information concerning the practical use of alternative therapies in preventing and treating disease, healing illness, and promoting health. They create a peer-reviewed journal for practitioners on integrating alternative therapies with conventional medicine.
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 | American Art Therapy Association Inc.
is a national association dedicated to the belief that the creative process involved in the making of art is healing and life enhancing.
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 | American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA)
is the professional organization of Dance/Movement Therapists with members both nationally and internationally. They offer this page to inform and educate the public about the services they offer, training available, and research findings and more
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 | American Music Therapy Association
This organization advances public awareness of the benefits of music therapy and increases access to quality music therapy services in a rapidly changing world. Music Therapy is an established healthcare profession that uses music to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals of all ages, improving quality of life, and meeting the needs of children and adults with disabilities or illnesses. Music therapy interventions can be designed to: promote wellness; manage stress; alleviate pain; express feelings; enhance memory; improve communication; and promote physical rehabilitation.
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 | Americans for the Arts
is the preeminent arts advocacy organization, dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts.
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 | Art Action Union
Empowering and gathering activist artists together to create awareness about social justice, this group works in various communities using art to inspire. As they provide creative & concerned people a platform & audience, they celebrate actions for change.
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 | Art as a Healing Force
This web site will immerse you in the field of art and healing and concentrates on making art to heal and on the power of the creative process as a healing force.
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 | Art Enables
An arts-and-enterprise program for adults with developmental and/or mental disabilities from throughout the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. The program is open to adults with developmental and/or mental disabilities who are enthusiastic about working toward becoming professional artists and who are willing and able to focus on their work for a full studio day.
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 | Art for the World
aims to create, through the universal language of art, a meaningful and enduring dialogue among diverse peoples, cultures, and world views in order to encourage tolerance and solidarity and to foster education as a human right.
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 | Art in the Public Interest
is a nonprofit organization that supports the belief that the arts are an integral part of a healthy culture, and that community-based arts provide significant value both to communities and artists.
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 | Art Therapy in France and Switzerland
A European Partnership for promoting and teaching arts expression and creativity.
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 | art4empowerment
Empowering women through art, this organization focuses on healing women who have experienced abuse and trauma through guided art-making for healing, self-knowledge, and empowerment. Initiatives include: survivors' art exhibitions; art workshops for women of all ages; courses for social work and healthcare professionals on how to use art-making in counseling; workshops for art educators; publications; and research.
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 | Arte Sana
Arte Sana is a nonprofit agency for underserved survivors of gender and racial violence that promotes healing and empowerment through the arts and community education.
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 | Artistic Realization Technologies
"We create systems that enable the uncompromised creative self-expression of people with the most severe physical challenges. Most of our clients do not speak or have the use of their hands. The key to their liberation lies in the power of Art, not as therapy or recreation, but as a critical means of articulate self-expression."
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 | ArtReach Foundation
The ArtReach Foundation sends teams of professionals to countries that have experienced severe natural disasters or military violence, to work with teachers and public health professionals. The teams will organize, develop and provide resources for programs that offer creative problem-solving and expressive arts activities for children who have been emotionally traumatized.
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 | Arts & Spirituality Center
This group of artists and spiritual leaders focuses on the interplay of artistic and spiritual expression as an avenue for social and personal healing. Programs are conducted primarily at the neighborhood level, working with multi-faith and multi-cultural constituencies around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Projects include: A Garden for a Recovering World, a mural and adjoining sculpture garden created in collaboration with the addiction recovery community and neighborhood children and adults; Arts After School, a program that has impacted West Philadelphia children whose lives have been touched by poverty, violence, and racism; and the Interfaith Youth Poetry Project.
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 | Arts Access Australia
Arts Access Australia is the national peak body of State and Territory arts and disability organizations working to increase access and participation in the arts for the one in five Australians with a disability. Thier work reflects the World Health Organization International Classification on Health & Functioning by promoting well-being and the social models of disability and health. Arts Access Australia is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
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 | Arts Council of Snohomish County
The Arts Council is the place to see art, learn about art and celebrate art, offering community art classes for all ages. The school programs, art workshops for teachers, art competitions, scholarships, and the Art Alternatives program at the Denney Juvenile Justice Center have won local, state and national praise.
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 | Arts for Change
With a passion and desire to share art about social change and healing and to make that process interactive, this organization makes activist art available to others and offers classes and workshops. They encourage students to find their own voices and to develop tools and strategies for working in collaboration with community. They see art as an interdisciplinary practice that can both heal individuals and foster social engagement. They see art activity as an intrinsic and necessary part of the cultural and social change required for survival on this planet. Use their site as a brainstorming tool and a place to find resources.
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 | Arts for Global Development, Inc.
An international, non-profit focusing on furthering interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and creative approaches to social change, and empowering socially and economically disadvantaged communities worldwide. They do this by creating a worldwide network of arts and development advocates (i.e. artists, artisans, independent consultants, non-governmental organizations, national development agencies, corporate entities) and focus on global socio-economic and educational development issues collaboratively.
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 | Arts for Healing (AFH)
A not-for-profit corporation that is dedicated to providing creative arts therapy services and programs for people with special needs in Fairfield County, Connecticut and its surrounding communities.
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 | ArtsChange: Art that Engages
Collaborating with public artists, families and others, ArtsChange creates site-specific, socially-engaged, new artworks in Richmond, CA, focusing on: nutrition and improvement of the physical environment; violence prevention; and community identity and empowerment. Some of the exhibition venues are county health centers, service centers and schools and mediums and methods of interaction are widely and creatively varied, including visual arts, performing arts, film, puppetry, and educational programs.
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 | ArtVenture
This philanthropic organization harnesses art and culture to improve lives in meaningful ways. ArtVenture identifies projects and organizations where funding will make the greatest difference in terms of meaningful life improvement. Return on investment is measured according to a project's ability to both alleviate suffering and create solutions that address the root causes of poverty, illness and conflict.
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 | Artworks at Spectrum
Spectrum recognizes the awesome, positive healing effect that creating and displaying art has and offers a variety of creative groups to it's members. These groups incude therapeutic arts programming as part of day treatment.
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 | Association for Dance Movement Therapy UK (ADMTUK)
Furthering communication amongst dance movement therapists, students & practitioners, this organization promotes the use of dance therapy throughout the United Kingdom. Services include: a register of Dance Movement Therapy practitioners available to the public; introductory workshops; training; seminars; and a quarterly newsletter called "e-motion."
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 | Association of Professional Music Therapists (APMT)
Members of this association are qualified Music Therapists who have undertaken a recognised post-graduate training course in Music Therapy. Includes a current international register of practising Music Therapists.
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 | Awakening Arts Institute
Awakening Arts is a worldwide network of artists, patrons and friends who support Art which uplifts, inspires, transforms and awakens. They create exhibitions, retreats and symposiums, uniting artists throughout the world who are seeking a deeper source of inspiration, and aspiring to a higher vision of what the Arts are meant to be. They believe that Art, serving as a conduit of revelation and vision, has the power to transform consciousness.
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 | Awakenings Project
The mission of the Awakenings Project is to assist persons with mental health issues in developing and enhancing their creative abilities through art in all its forms, and to raise public awareness of the creative talents and contributions of people living with psychiatric disorders.
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