Artbeat Studio Inc

healing and empowerment through creative endeavourVisionTo enable consumers of mental health services to engage in artistic expression that promotes recovery, empowerment and community.MissionTo provide studio space, community and opportunity for creative initiative to facilitate mental, spiritual and economic health. Artbeat Studio is a mental health consumer initiated, peer directed, and recovery oriented program. This community-based studio accommodates artists whose mental health, social connection, and income make it impracticable for them, individually, to acquire a workspace where they might advance their artistic technique safely and securely. The artists are supported and mentored in managing their own workplace, production, and marketing within the operating parameters of the studio.Artbeat Studio accommodates a group of nine artist applicants per six month period.ServicesAccess to safe, secure and well equipped studio space.Opportunities for self-directed creative exploration and development of technique.Access to materials, tools, and process expertise in visual arts (painting/drawing, sculpture, pottery, video) and performance art (poetry/prose, plays/theatre, music, dance)