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Art Lab RX provides art therapy on the go “Put it on a bus.” That’s how it all started. Lisa Lounsbury is a licensed marriage and family therapist, board certified art therapist and board-approved clinical supervisor. She is also the founder of Art Lab RX, a mobile mental health counseling agency that specializes in art therapy services and wellness programs. Lounsbury was working in corporate America in sales, but didn’t find it to be fulfilling. When she lost her job in 2008, she
didn’t know that she would quickly discover what she was meant to do. She created this workshop centered around exploring your identity. She brought her workshop to a treatment center. “The impact from those women in this two-hour workshop, their response, impacted me so deeply. That I was just like okay, this is it,” she recalled. Lounsbury went to Minneapolis Community and Technical College for a couple of years before she transferred to Metro State University. It was there that she pursued a degree SEE ART LAB, PAGE 15
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Students at Centennial Middle School (CMS) are adding the finishing touches to their fall play, “Princess & the Pea,” before the premiere later this week. CMS will perform “Princess and the Pea” Nov. 2 through Nov. 4 at the CMS auditorium. “Princess and the Pea” is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a princess who is tested to CONTRIBUTED become a wife to a lonely prince. CMS’s adaptation Katherine Knutson plays the queen in the middle school’s of the show was written by Ryan and Tina North, upcoming prodution “The Princess and the Pea.” Twin Cities theater producers, actors and playwrights. “We have done a couple of shows written by (them), and we love their work and how they understand and write to meet the needs and goals of school theater,” said Eric Webster, play co-director. “Plus, this script is just so fun and such a great take on an old classic story.” One thing audience members might notice about the show is the set and props. The costumes are also newly purchased. “As a production team, we just keep expanding our collaboration with each other, and this year we have some really cool set elements thanks to the amazing talents of our set and props designer, Kris Schmidt,” Webster said. “She has just done some amazing work for this show. We are so excited for people to see what she has created.” Eighty-five students make up the cast and crew. Co-directors Webster and Laurie Tangren said the show has a “very talented class” of eighth graders who they are excited to watch continue to grow as
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