Calming The Nerves: Meadows Therapy Treats Nurses Using Art Published February 14th, 2021 - 08:13 GMT
The sessions combine various art forms, from painting to creating performance pieces to breathing techniques developed by opera performers. (Courtesy of Meadows)
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“On Aug. 4 we said we have to help and art therapy is the only way we directly knew how to help,” Meadows co-founded Lena Kelekian.
It’s been a hard year for the city’s medical staff. With the pandemic, economic and financial crisis, colleagues’ emigrating, then the port explosion, nurses’ nerves are stretched thin.
The Meadows Art Therapy NGO has spent the last few months trying to treat the trauma nurses experienced when thousands of wounded flooded Beirut hospitals after the blast.
Christmas came early for Joe Peragine and Georgia State University when International Paint Pals, a Buckhead-based nonprofit, donated 1,200 pieces of childrenâs art earlier this month.
âI havenât even unpacked (all of them),â said Peragine, a professor of drawing, painting and printmaking at the college and director of its Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design. âThere are seven or eight boxes. I have only opened one. I feel like itâs Christmas morning. Iâm getting ready to open them up and see what we have. Maybe it will inspire us to do other things I havenât even thought of yet.â
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