Cabbagetown Art Center is a community space created to serve individuals seeking to better their social, emotional, and creative selves. We are a collective of Art Therapists, Counselors, Artists, and Coaches who believe in supporting others to discover their creative selves, which we know heals and empowers.
Our group has provided Counseling, Art Therapy and Art as Therapy to all age populations at multiple educational, mental, and physical health treatment facilities. Over the years, we experienced the difference it made in people’s mental health wellness and their lives.
We noticed outside these specific settings; creative alternatives were missing the therapeutic component where the therapists connect the client’s creative process to all areas of their life, sometimes providing life-changing experiences. We were also aware that any possible alternative had waiting lists, and none focused on normalizing mental health care and creating a safe, creative community. After years of dreaming about mental health wellness being a regular part of our daily lives, we found the perfect place in Cabbagetown’s already existing strong community. It’s our hope that Cabbagetown Art Center is a unique place for people to gather and support one another, develop creativity, improve mental wellness, take classes, learn skills, teach a group, or share stories of resilience.
Where We Gather, We Grow.
Cabbagetown Art Center is a community space created to serve individuals seeking to better their social, emotional, and creative selves. We are a collective of Art Therapists, Counselors, Artists, and Coaches who believe in supporting others to discover their creative selves, which we know heals and empowers.
Our group has provided Counseling, Art Therapy and Art as Therapy to all age populations at multiple educational, mental, and physical health treatment facilities. Over the years, we experienced the difference it made in people’s mental health wellness and their lives.
We noticed outside these specific settings; creative alternatives were missing the therapeutic component where the therapists connect the client’s creative process to all areas of their life, sometimes providing life-changing experiences. We were also aware that any possible alternative had waiting lists, and none focused on normalizing mental health care and creating a safe, creative community. After years of dreaming about mental health wellness being a regular part of our daily lives, we found the perfect place in Cabbagetown’s already existing strong community. It’s our hope that Cabbagetown Art Center is a unique place for people to gather and support one another, develop creativity, improve mental wellness, take classes, learn skills, teach a group, or share stories of resilience.
Where We Gather, We Grow.
Our Mission Statement:
Cabbagetown Art Center is a community art therapy space created to provide a continuation of mental health wellness care by engaging the creative self and encouraging participation in the community. Acknowledging creativity is subjugated by a hierarchical system’s definition of being artistic, CAC’s purpose is to liberate the creativity within all willing to partake in the mission. CAC is a community designed to normalize addressing mental health wellness in our everyday lives.
Believing that being creative is inherent to our humanity, the fundamental principles of creativity and human connection are at the core of Cabbagetown Art Center. When we stop limiting creativity to artistic ability, we can see opportunities for creativity everywhere. When we recognize mental health wellness in conjunction, it allows the full expression of being human. Offering a safe place for individuals to utilize visual art modalities with the guidance of an art therapist, Cabbagetown Art Center is a vehicle for transferring the basic principles of creativity to individual lives.
