In this Skill-Building Workshop, fabric artist and craftswoman, Wendy S., led the hands-on activity from Chill & Spill called “Fly Away,” a strength-building exercise designed to help youth realize the importance of self-care and nurturing. Over the years, Art with Heart has received generous donations of fabric and yarns. We utilized them for this project, which we began after a visualization exercise.

The group was a mix of artists and therapists, most of who had little experience using fabric in any way whatsoever. So, this was a challenging medium.

Attendees created amazing works of art, but more importantly, they discovered things about themselves that hadn’t been apparent before.