Using Art as A Coping Mechanism

Hey, fans.  How's it going?!  Today I came across two pages on Facebook that were rather interesting to me.  One was about artists who want to work together to create art projects to change the world, and the other one was about artists dealing with trauma and using art as a tool to help them cope.  I think that this is the case with probably the majority of artists... They want to help change and better the world, and they also want to create art to help them deal with their trauma!  Artists want to heal themselves as well as help heal others and restore Mother Earth to its natural, clean, pure, beautiful state!  I know those statements at least hold true for me!  I want to heal myself, heal others, and make a difference in today's world, and I most certainly do use my art and music as a mean to cope with my past trauma!

Here are the links to those two pages and a few pieces of artwork from those pages:

Artfully Unforgotten (the one about the artists that want to come together and work together to create art projecs and help make a difference in the world): http://www.facebook.com/punkhippiedemonchild666?ref=tn_tnmn#!/artfullyunforgotten

555 Collective (the one about the artists who use art as a mean to cope with their trauma): http://www.facebook.com/555collective


555 Collective also has an official, non-Facebook, website: http://www.555c.org/


I also came across another page just now (while working on this blog post).  Its called "Art Geek".  Its apparently a place on Facebook where artists can post their artwork without having to have all the strangers of Facebook land looking at your profile and looking through all your photos on your personal profile.  Here is the link to that page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/ART-GEEK/141029446003402


And... Finally... Just as I promised... Here are the pics from the first two links above!

And this page is called "Arto- Art Beyond the Museums": http://www.facebook.com/artomx?sk=timeline

This one is called "Wikiartmap," and it is sort of a world-wide map of art or artists or something like that: http://www.facebook.com/Wikiartmap?ref=stream

Well, I hope that you enjoyed this blog post, and I hope that it and its contents were inspiring to you!  I would like to encourage you to find an artistic and creative outlet (such as writing, painting, sketching, making masquerade masks, making music, making cards, jewelry, etc.) to plug yourself into if you are looking for a fun and exciting hobby, trying to find a coping machenism, want to make a difference in the world, want to help yourself and/or others, or even just as a fun way to pass the time!  I am going to close for now.

-Bridgette <3

rayasmommy94@gmail.com

P.S.  If you are going to take up an art form or creative writing, or something of that nature, make sure it is something that you actually enjoy doing and are comfortable with doing and are only doing it because you want to, not because someone else is making feel pressured to do so... And take your time with it, don't ever rush it or make yourself do it when you don't want to do it, but at the same time remember that PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT, and if you actually want to perfect your skills and take them to a higher level you have to practice!  Just do it at your own pace and on your own time.