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Memorial Art
Sponsored by Dignified Pet Services
One of the best ways to navigate your grief when you lose a pet is memorializing them through art. Research shows that art and healing come from the same source. In fact, it is now known that when a person is creating art or is healing, this person will emit the same brain wave patterns. Art and healing is so powerful that hospitals are incorporating art into patient care.
Here are some important facts about the healing elements of art.
- Participation in artistic activities can have measurable physiological results such as, reducing stress, improving the immune system, and easing pain
- Creating art gives a voice and language to unknown emotions, feelings and behaviors
- Tapping into our creative energy can help a person to feel more alive, to gain inner wisdom, and to stay more completely in the present moment
- When creating art, it uses the emotional and intuitive aspects of a person
Our Pet Loss Support Director, art therapist and certified grief counselor Enid Traisman, MSW facilitates this series of memorial art workshops. Each month offers a new opportunity to create something unique and take it home with you! This is a free community event. Donations are welcome. Pets welcome in spirit only. Thank you for understanding.
Parking: our parking lot is very small, and fills up quickly during weekends and evenings when our hospital is at its busiest. For that reason, we ask that you park either on the street or in the DeTemple Plumbing parking lot (after 6pm on weekdays) which is directly across Pettygrove Street from the DoveLewis parking lot entrance.
We thank you in advance for leaving our parking lot open for DoveLewis emergency and ICU patients and clients.
Second Sunday of Every Month
DoveLewis Community Room
1945 NW Pettygrove, Portland
1:00PM - 2:30PM Families Welcome
3:00PM - 4:30PM Adults (Age 16 & over)
Please bring photocopies of a variety of photos of your pet to incorporate into these memorial art projects.
The teen and adult workshops will also include an opportunity to create a piece of fused glass jewelry or pocket stone as a permanent remembrance using a small amount of their pets cremated remains as part of the design.
Examples of memorial art projects (click to view photo)
Space is limited.
You must RSVP using our FREE registration
in our online giftshop.
You will not be buying anything when you register; you are only reserving a space in this popular workshop.
If you have questions, please call 503.234.2061.
DoveLewis community workshops are FREE.
Donations are welcome.
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