What was depression to me, if I could hear the what if question dozens of times before finding it strange? There (which is to say nowhere) the matter might have stood but for a change in the weather.

“My hope is that I’ll get to that place where I am very successful, and I am a household name, and I am influencing other people like I’ve been influenced,” artist Angela Roe told me while we sat ...

The work of Doris Lee, a painter known for her Depression-era murals and depictions of everyday life, will be on exhibit Sept. 26-Jan. 9 in The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg.

Earlier this week I received a beautiful, handmade holiday card from “The Candy Man,” the inmate who paints with M & M’s. [see the blog post “The Candy Man: A Prisoner Paints with Delectable Materials ...

Arelys Ripoll noticed the tantrums and fluctuating feelings when she was 9 years old growing up in Kissimmee, Florida. She only knew how to show her anger by hitting walls and tree trunks. “I didn’t ...

Earlier this year, Lake View resident Pamela Monaco read about a debate dividing the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. Three schools there were in the process of removing government-funded Depression-era ...

Source: Photo by Art Adams, used with permission. To date, there have been relatively few investigations of just how the use of clay in art therapy can help in the reparation and recovery of ...

Since ancient Greece, healers have prescribed art to aid those facing mental challenges. Today, the practice is a precisely honed craft used by credentialed professionals to help people suffering from ...

In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency in a landslide election. With unemployment rising, investment banks collapsing and the stock market plummeting (sound familiar?), he promised a ...