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Jane Zamost and the art of ‘Healing Through Art’
from 8-23 HE
BY SUSAN VAN DONGEN
Remember art class in school, that special few hours every week when we reveled in paint and paper and felt-tipped pens? Or maybe you used to doodle in the margins of your lesson book when you should have been absorbing algebra? Drew on the sidewalk? What happened to that spirit?
So many of us have left the paint-splashed, ink-stained soul behind, to attend to work and family and the household, the daily grind.
But if we dig down, shrug off the inner and outer critics, and learn to play again, we become re-energized and discover that the natural artist is still alive inside.
That’s the main message behind artist and healing arts instructor Jane Zamost’s popular workshops — that we’re all creative.
She invites those who feel stuck in a rut, bereft of creativity, to gather our pads of paper, pencils, scissors, crayons, paints, and brushes, and just play for half an hour or even 15 minutes every day.
See ZAMOST, Page 6
