Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica
Art-making in Community for Healing Saturday, October 11th | 10AM - 12PM 18th Street Arts Center 1639 18th Street. Santa Monica, CA 90404 **Free + Open to the Public** What started as a response to the devastating fires that impacted Los Angeles has evolved into a space for the whole community to process current stressors in our lives and the state of the world. Join us again on Saturday, October 11th, from 10am-12pm for a series of community art-making gatherings focused on safety, connection, and healing, entitled Art-making in Community for Healing. These open studio-style gatherings provide space to process our experiences as a community through creative expression, with licensed mental health and trained arts healing practitioners available for support. The final 30 minutes will be dedicated to optional sharing in community. Each gathering is FREE and welcomes participants of all ages and offers a nurturing environment. This will be the last convening of the year, but Art-making in Community will return in 2026. Let us know you’re coming: https://bit.ly/art-making-community-healing **This gathering is not a replacement for therapy, though many facilitators are licensed therapists. A resource list will be provided at the event to support you in finding specific support. * **18th Street Arts Center is wheelchair accessible.* **These sessions are volunteer-run. 18th Street Arts Center has generously donated its space and promotional efforts. Supplies for these sessions are funded in part by donations through the **Arts & Healing Initiative**.* **COVID Health & Safety: While we look forward to this in-person event, the health and safety of our guests remains our top priority. Please do not attend the event if you are experiencing any COVID-like symptoms.* Guest Bios: **Nicole Rademacher** is a Board Certified Art Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, as well as a practicing professional artist and reunited Latine adoptee. In her clinical work, she combines somatic and creative therapies to support clients, with a specialization in helping adults who have experienced childhood trauma and disenfranchised grief, particularly adoptees. Nicole holds an MA in Marital & Family Therapy with a specialization in Clinical Art Therapy from Loyola Marymount University, an MFA in Electronic Integrated Art from Alfred University, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Nicole has collaborated and shown work worldwide including Transmediale, 18th Street Arts Center, LACMA, the Wignall Museum of Contemporary, and the Los Angeles International Airport. She runs a private practice, Art Therapy with Nicole, based in Los Angeles. **Addalee Lyon** is a Provisionally Registered Art Therapist and Associate Marriage and Family Therapist located in LA. She has gained heightened experience working with adolescents in Los Angeles with a range of mental health diagnoses. **Diane Campbell** completed the Arts & Healing Initiative (formerly UCLArts & Healing) SEA Certificate Program in 2019 to facilitate her volunteer work with adoptees. She served as an adoptee mentor for 5 years. In 2022, she completed the Applied Compassion Training at the Center for Compassion & Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University. In that program, she designed a capstone project called "All Of You Is Welcome Here" for adoptees to practice self-compassion. And this year she completed her 200-hour Radiance Sutras Meditation Teacher Training.