Some of more popular Free Art Classes
Beer Bottle Painting
Beer Bottle Painting
Beer Bottle Painting
Our Beer Bottle Painting class transforms ordinary bottles into unique works of art, providing a creative and therapeutic outlet for veterans. This hands-on activity encourages self-expression while fostering relaxation and camaraderie.
Glass Etching
Beer Bottle Painting
Beer Bottle Painting
Our Glass Etching class allows veterans to create personalized, etched designs on glass, providing a hands-on, creative outlet. This therapeutic process fosters focus, self-expression, and a sense of accomplishment.
Wood Burning
Beer Bottle Painting
Wood Burning
Our Wood Burning class teaches veterans the art of pyrography, using heat to create meaningful designs on wood. This hands-on, meditative process helps reduce stress, improve focus, and promote self-expression.
Sculpting
Playing with Gun Powder
Wood Burning
Our Sculpting class allows veterans to shape and mold their emotions into tangible art using clay or other materials. This hands-on experience promotes relaxation, creativity, and a sense of accomplishment in a therapeutic setting.
Playing with Gun Powder
Playing with Gun Powder
Playing with Gun Powder
Our Gunpowder and Burning Art class uses controlled fire and gunpowder as creative mediums, symbolizing transformation and release. By igniting designs on canvas or wood, veterans can visually and emotionally process trauma, turning destruction into creation. This unique therapy promotes mindfulness, emotional release, and a renewed sense of control over one's narrative.
Bob ROss Style Painting
Playing with Gun Powder
Playing with Gun Powder
Our Bob Ross-Style Painting class embraces the joy of painting through soft, flowing brushstrokes and the "happy little accidents" philosophy. Using a step-by-step approach, veterans can create serene landscapes, fostering relaxation, focus, and a sense of accomplishment. This therapeutic process helps reduce stress and encourages self-expression in a supportive, judgment-free environment.
Free Art Classes to our Veterans and their Spouses
Free Art Classes for Veterans and Their Spouses
At our organization, we are proud to offer free art classes to veterans and their spouses. We believe in the healing power of art and aim to make it accessible to those who have served our country. Here’s how our program works:
Veterans and Spouses:
- Free Classes: All veterans and their spouses who attend with their veteran partners can participate in our art classes at no cost.
- Convenient Locations: We often hold our popular classes, such as "Painting with a Beer Bottle," at veteran-friendly locations like VFW halls, American Legion posts, or Vet Centers.
- On-Demand Classes: If you can secure a facility and gather at least seven veterans, we will bring everything needed for the class to your location. This way, you don’t have to travel to benefit from our programs; we come to you.
Civilians:
- Affordable Participation: Civilians are welcome to join our classes for a fee of $35 to $45, depending on the cost of materials and supplies.
Popular and Unique Classes:
- Painting with a Beer Bottle: This fun and engaging class is a favorite among participants and is usually conducted in relaxed, veteran-friendly environments.
- Art with Gun Powder: Explore the unique and thrilling art form of creating pieces with gunpowder.
- Rorschach Art: Unleash your creativity by making your own Rorschach-style artworks, a great way to delve into abstract expression.
Our Goal:We aim to eliminate the barriers to accessing art therapy by traveling to you. Our mission is to bring art classes to veterans, ensuring they don’t have to travel far to enjoy the therapeutic and creative benefits of our programs. Let us do the traveling while you enjoy the class in the comfort of your community..
Poetry from the SOul
Lead by Carlos Johnson; Founder of the Speak Freely Foundation and our 2nd Lieutenant of TT1P
Poetry Therapy is a form of expressive arts therapy that uses poems, narratives and other spoken or written media to promote well-being and healing. Therapists might use existing literature or encourage those in therapy to create their own literary works as part of treatment.
Part of this program we will conduct group classes, virtual classes, as well as poetry summer Base Tours to allow for creative expression that can foster healing and mental well-being.
This program was founded on December 10, 2023, in Charleston, South Carolina, led by our Board Member and lead instructor, Mr. Carlos Johnson. Following his move to Atlanta with his company, Holy City Epoxy Floors (843-790-3344), we are excited to expand and launch classes in the Atlanta area in 2025.
Comdey4PTSD
Comedy (Laughter) is The BEST Medicine
Inspired by the Gary Senise Foundations "Almost Red, White and Blue" Army Veteran Comedians Adam Key Dewyne White
Are you struggling with feelings of disconnection and isolation? Are you too self-critical or perfectionistic and want to work on your self-esteem and sense of self? Do you want to learn how to let go, have fun, and live in the moment? Do you want to get more in touch with your playful and creative inner child? Do you like to Laugh, or want to learn how to laugh at yourself?
Within a small supportive group of 6 - 10 people that meets twice a month, you will learn how to be more compassionate towards yourself, open up and be able to take yourself less seriously, so that you can feel calmer and more connected to other people.
You will practice your self-compassion in real time through tailored improv comedy exercises that are designed to support you on the path towards increasing your self-acceptance and self-confidence.
At its core, comedy helps you to take risks, make mistakes, and not take yourself so seriously. It’s an anti-perfectionism practice. This is different, fun and enlightening art form to improve mental health for people who feel their symptoms are stable but ongoing.
We do not have anyone to run this program, so if you are interested in or wanting to lead the program, please send your resumes to jr@TrueTop1Percent.com
Music from the Soul
“Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch.” – Debasish Mridha
Inspired by the Founders wife, a career music teacher. I have seen her passion through her work over the years and inspire so many students over the past decade.
As part of our Art Therapy programs, this one is also very close to the Founders heart, because it is close to his wife heart. We will have more information on this in 2025
Healing Podcast release
Part of our vision
This is an experimental therapy that we are interested in adding to our program list. and ultimately have a room in our HQ building.
Our goal is to have a solitary room, secluded from the others from which we can have 1 or many Veterans share their stories anonymously, with no repercussions or spectators there to say one thing or another. And if they desire and with their permission, we will share their stories with the world. Unedited and no censorship, these will be an introspective of the life a Servicemember.
This will be available when we open our Military Exhibition Center (HQ) in sometime 2026.
There has never been, nor will there ever be, a charge to any veteran or family member for our services. It is our honor to serve those who have served.