Artists Giving Back

Healing through the vehicle of art for refugee populations worldwide.

Imagine providing healing through the vehicle of art to refugee populations, inspiring a current of hope during the process.

Create an opportunity for displaced individuals to sit down and build community over a paintbrush and canvas.

Heal through art, instill hope through art, build community through art, and return dignity through art.

We at Artists Giving Back want to help refugee communities find their imaginations again, even during trauma. We want people to remember how beautiful and hopeful imagination is as a daily practice, creating an undeniably powerful ripple effect.

Healing through the Process of Creating

Gathering people around a table to create art, having a cup of tea together, and sharing stories with each other is a reminder that people are people.

These are wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters. Often during trauma, the victimization portrait is the only portrait we are able to see, and seeing the necessary humanization of the individual is often overlooked. How do we begin to offer healing if we only view the individual as a victim.?

We believe in helping people feel dignity again, we believe in community, and we believe in the power of a paintbrush stroke to bring people together, and to remind them and ourselves to paint a new portrait for individuals that have suffered displacement from conflict, be it a crisis or climate.

When we change our perception from victim to individual we are able to encourage the use of imagination. With imagination comes hope, with imagination comes creating, and with imagination comes healing.

We strive to provide people with art supplies and the necessary materials to assist with the healing process, and to help others restore a sense of dignity in their lives.

Materials for Healing

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Supporting Displaced People due to Conflict, Climate, and Crisis Across the Globe

We are supporting people whose lives have been completely uprooted and who no longer have the support of their local communities. We are trying to give their sense of community back to people who have been adversely affected by crises.