Recovery Through The Arts
A Peer-Run Organization Promoting Wellness and Empowerment
Welcome to 9Muses Art Center
This is our message about reopening.
It describes policies & procedures that must be followed in order to participate at this time.
This REGISTRATION FORM must be completed and confirmed prior to your participation. Please follow the instructions below, if you have any questions or need assistance please call the Muses @ 954-746-2055 ext#106
Welcome to 9Muses Art Center
This is our message about reopening.
It describes policies & procedures that must be followed in order to participate at this time.
This REGISTRATION FORM must be completed and confirmed prior to your participation. Please follow the instructions below, if you have any questions or need assistance please call the Muses @ 954-746-2055 ext#106
The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated changes in the operation of 9MusesArtCenter.
We are now accepting member registrations for our studio programs and wellness activities.
If you are not a member you can make an appointment to complete your membership application by clicking here
To provide the same quality, personalized art instruction our Muses rely on, while adapting to new health regulations and specifications, we request that all members strictly adhere to the following guidelines:
Members are required to register for all classes in advance by completing the registration form to the right. Members can choose, using the drop-down menu, one program/activity per day. Select either the morning or the afternoon time preference. ALSO, you must click NONE for any day you do not wish to register.
Participation is limited -- therefore we ask that if you are not able to keep your scheduled time, you notify us in order to offer the time slot to those placed on our waiting list.
Please note: your registration is not valid until you have received a confirmation email.
No walk-ins will be allowed during this time.
Customers interested in our Custom Frame Shop may make an appointment for framing by clicking here.
Everyone must participate in a quick health screening before entering the center. The screening consists of a brief set of questions and (non-touch) temperature check.
Everyone is required to wear a face mask and practice physical distancing while participating in our activities.
Members will not be permitted to re-enter the building if they choose to leave for any reasons during scheduled time. We cannot permit eating or drinking while at the Muses
We further request that those in a higher risk category continue to shelter in place and utilize our Virtual Services. Please contact us if you fall into one of these categories and would like to receive a supply package to support your creativity!
9Muses Art Center has resumed the SethLine hours
Mon-Fri: 6:00PM to 10:00PM
Those who are feeling isolated, lonely, panicked, or just need a friendly voice, are invited to call (954) 578-5640.
Learn More about the SethLine Warm Line
Welcome to 9Muses Art Center!
9Muses Art Center is a drop-in center located in Fort Lauderdale, FL. We are a program of Mental Health America of Southeast Florida providing free peer-driven behavioral health support to adults with mental health and substance abuse disorders. The center has a fully functioning studio for fine arts classes and ceramic art. Participants may choose from a broad array of visual and performing arts.
Classes and personalized instruction along with individual studio time allow members to create according to his/her own personal “muse." Evidenced-based wellness activities and anxiety and depression support groups are held weekly. Members can engage in stimulating activity, free from the stigma of mental illness.
The center has been promoting wellness for over 20 years and functions successfully as a peer-run organization. Members are free to come and go as they please, participate in any art classes, support groups, and wellness activities they wish, or sit and enjoy coffee and conversation with other members. Positive interaction creates a sense of empowerment and promotes mental health. Come join us! See what a Muse can do for you...
A Step Ahead of My Tormented Mind
For me, the act of creating is deeply personal and transformative. I focus on the process of artmaking more than the final product. My art serves as a living visual journal. Oftentimes, I return to pieces and reflect on what they might be speaking into my life years after they were concepted. This exhibit highlights artwork I made to process the suicide of Nicole, the woman I shared life with for over 7 years. Creating art helped me mine for deep understandings and reconstruct inner and outer worlds shattered by shock and sudden traumatic stigmatized loss. My art held my trauma and grief at a protective distance and carried me forward - a step ahead of my tormented mind. I made my trauma, grief, and loss the subject of my art, ultimately converting the toxin into the antitoxin and revealing the medicine of the arts. Consequently, the art allowed me to have an embodied experience, at points connecting with the divine. Part of my recovery journey involved earning a degree in art therapy and mental health counseling. As a registered art therapist, this exhibit tells the story of my experience through clinical and practical applications of art therapy. As a suicide postvention specialist, I arranged the pieces throughout the exhibit to follow personal developmental milestones of the suicide loss experience: stabilization, integration, and posttraumatic growth.
ROOTED IN WELLNESS
9MusesArtCenter is happy to welcome you to our end of the year exhibitionfor 2023, Rooted in Wellness. We asked participants to conceptualize wellness goals, a state of well-being that includes: an individual realizing their ownabilities, coping with the normal stresses of life, working productively and fruitfully, and the ability to make a contribution to their community. This exhibition focuses on artwork that aims to define wellness through answering personal questions about self-development, good-quality social connections, beliefs in overcoming hurdles, sense of purpose, and having a positive self-concept. We aimed to emphasize that mental health begins with each individual. Personal wellness means being physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually healthy. A healthy lifestyle helps balance all these aspects to achieve wellness. Our decisions and choices impact both our short-term and long-term wellness. However, we are still interconnected through shared needs that can only be addressed when we are aware of one another. Our community serves as the soil in which we live, and nurturing the garden around us is vital for our own development. Thank you for joining us and enjoy the show.
CHASING EQUITY
9MusesArtCenter would like to invite artists to submit for Chasing Equity; an interrogation of inequality, struggle, and the power dynamics that maintain stratification and inequity.
Chasing Equity’s focus is to address institutional disadvantages for BIPOC populations, but we are particularly interested in engaging topics that are intersectional as well, such as examining Black and Brown experiences that intersect with LGBTQ+, gendered, and/or disability. Artwork can confront how inequity is perpetuated, and/or ways to address inequity that would resort in meaningful, paradigm-shifting change.
Artists are invited to examine institutional and social structures that contribute to and codify racial inequity.
We ask that artists create new visions and imagined spaces that strive for equity. Artists should reflect on their personal relationship to equity and inequity. We would like artwork that inspires a drive for change and progress. While we are not opposed to works that are centered on historical roots of inequity or change, we would like artists to consider how inequity exists in the here and now. We welcome works that have personal examinations on how artists themselves have knowingly or unknowingly perpetuated structural inequity and confront these histories. We would like works that
challenge the self and the viewer in their complicit support of racist structures. Artwork can be celebratory of existing progress but should be critical of its shortcomings. We welcome works that emphasize truth through discomfort over comforting lies of an inevitable march towards equality.
Chasing Equity is about pursuing the personal within the structural, and how those narratives are necessary to challenge the status quo.
CONTAGIOUS!
Opening exhibit is Friday December 10, 2021 from 6-8PM.
7149 West Oakland Park Blvd.
Lauderhill, Florida 33313
for more information call 954-746-2055 ext#108 or email [email protected]
Create Art to Express Yourself and Maintain Your Mental Health
Education
9Muses members have an opportunity to engage in both arts and wellness classes. Members can learn to create unique works of art through a variety of fine and performance arts classes. Attendees can develop personal skills and techniques through wellness courses.
Prevention
Art classes, wellness courses, support groups, and social events at 9Muses Art Center are natural supports. These supports can prevent adverse outcomes for those suffering from mental health issues. Natural supports and education create resiliency and create habits and strategies to help prevent hospitalization or behavioral health issues.
Advocacy
As a community staple for more than twenty years, 9Muses Art Center is a trusted voice in mental health matters and advocacy. As a peer-run center, we are advocate on behalf of the community from a consumer’s point of view. MHA and 9Muses Art Center regularly participates in local and state boards and with partner organizations to further the goals and dignity of those with mental health issues.
Empowerment
We are an organization focused on empowering the individual to create, execute, and maintain their mental wellness. Arts classes help members develop a wide range of practical and artistic skills which empowers them to express themselves. Our wellness courses teach members to empower themselves to advocate for their needs and empower them to take control of their mental health.
The Nine Muses
Daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (Memory) in Greek mythology are the inspiration of artists and scientists. Their names are Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania.
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