Painting4PTS

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 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 created on 12/10/2022 and we look to implement this by June 2023 in Charleston, SC.

 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 

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. A program we look to establish for Veterans in 2023 or early 2024. 

We will have more information on this in 2023

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 2025.

 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.