The Art Therapy Institute is presenting an exhibit titled “Journey to a Different Landscape: Visual Expression through Art Therapy,†featuring the artwork of children who are recent arrivals to our community as refugees from Burma.
This artwork was created during their art-therapy sessions intended to help these children heal from past trauma and express their hopes, dreams and struggles. The artists are elementary and middle school children, many of whom have spent their entire lives in refugee camps and have suffered persecution and trauma as ethnic minorities in their homeland of Burma. They have come to Chapel Hill with their families to escape the civil strife and ethnic, political and religious persecution that has existed for the past half-century and continues to persist in Burma
An opening reception will be held May 23 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the UNC Student Union Gallery. Donations to the Art Therapy Institute will be accepted. The artwork will be on exhibit through May 29.
This is a wonderful way for these children, new members of the Chapel Hill community, to both explore their experience and share their experience with their new community. Art is such a great way to communicate!
Thanks for sharing this.
Sally