Welcome to the Expressive Arts Center!

HeArts Delight Center  for

Expressive Arts, Music & Movement

Dawn D. Collins, M.A., CMP

87 Sunset Drive, Stuyvesant, NY 12173

(518) 758-8369 or (518) 424-2342

email: songbrd@nycap.rr.com

"He who works with his hands is a laborer.  He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.  He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist."  St. Francis of Assisi 

 

The Expressive Arts Center offers a range of arts-based programs and services designed for individuals and groups who are seeking to develop, discover, enhance, explore and nurture through the creative process as well as to build their community. 

 

What are the expressive arts?

 

Visual - painting, drawing, collage, clay, monoprinting, felting, marbling, jewelry making, etc.

 

Written - poetry, journaling, storytelling, and songwriting

 

Sound and music - toning and vocal soundwork, rhythm and music

 

Movement - free style, with and without music, and sometimes with the addition of props (scarves, parachutes, streamers, stretchy bands, etc.)

 

 

What the expressive arts may do for you....or for someone you love:

 

tap creative resources

connect with senses

build self-confidence

explore inner feelings and strengths

deepen self-awareness

develop self-determination

increase self-esteem

increase ability to problem solve

enhance relaxation

explore the imagination

reduce stress

increase play range

enhance social skills

increase abilities to focus 

increase spontaneity

 

All ages are served.  Private confidential sessions or customized group sessions and workshops are available.  (View a sampling on our Services page.)  Let's design a program that will suit you!  

 

 

Vision

 

To encourage each person's perception of themselves as a creative, artistic individual and their life as a work of art in process. To diminish educational, physical and emotional barriers to art-making.  To facilitate an individual's or group's joyful entry into "unordinary reality" through the arts and their safe re-entry to ordinary reality and ability to integrate their art-based learning into their "real" life odinary experiences.   To encourage each person's building of healthy connections in their mind, body and spirit.