2014-362 Arts - Compass Center for Women and Families for Spring 2014 Arts Grant Agreement $1,500

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r Compass Center for Women and Families Proposed Uses of Grant Funds: Compass Center proposes using these funds for either a 5-week or 8-week series of workshop/groups in the fall of 2014.The exact dates will be determined by facilitator and group participant availability.The workshops would be held at Compass Center's Wilson St. location in downtown Chapel Hill, NC. The facilitators of this group are two Compass Center clients,both accomplished writers,who wish to share what they have learned with other survivors. Facilitators: • Pam Baggett is the author/photographer of the garden book iTropicalismo!(Timber Press). Her articles appear in Horticulture, Fine Gardening, and The American Gardener. Poems appear or are forthcoming in The Atlanta Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Sow's Ear,the Barefoot Muse Press anthology Forgetting Home:Poems About Alzheimers,and The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VII:North Carolina. Pam has taught writing workshops at Duke University's Continuing Studies Program (now the Osher Lifelong Learning Program),the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,and at numerous public gardens,including Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA and the 1C Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, NC. • Leanne Simon is a writer, activist, educator, and domestic violence survivor. She has published numerous articles and essays in both online and print media. Recently, she received a Certificate in Documentary Arts from Duke University with her capstone project being a book-length memoir titled Just Looking Around. In addition to her writing, she uses documentary photo and video to uplift communities and engage viewers in social justice issues. Some of her work can be viewed online at leannesimon.com. Program Director: • Connie Carringer is an advocate,facilitator, teacher, and musician. She has been the Support Group Coordinator at Compass Center for Women and Families since 2012.Connie has worked in the field of domestic violence for over 5 years. She earned her Master's in Counseling and a Post-Master's Certificate in Expressive Arts Therapy from Appalachian State University in 2010. She has been using creative arts, including writing, in the service of healing throughout her own life and professional career. Organizational Capacity and Feasibility of Program: This series is similar to the Art of Healing workshops Compass Center has been offering since the fall of 2012. In that group, clients participate in a variety of art activities including writing, painting,collage, sculpture, and mixed-media.There is a disk included in this application with sample work created in these workshops. It is important to note that the goal of these workshops is in using the creative process in the service of healing as opposed to producing finished pieces of art. The series has seen a diverse group of women attend. Of the 31 women who have attended one or more of the workshops, below is the breakdown of race, age and home city for the Art of Healing Workshops: