Healing Art
Therapeutic Mural Projects
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"We As Sisters Shine Together" /"Juntas Como Hermanas Brillamos"
January-February 2012
Client: WORLD (Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Disease), Oakland, CA
Ellen partnered with therapist and clients at WORLD to create a visual expression of their hope for a cure and understanding...
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“La Nueva Esperanza de Vivir” (A New Hope for Living)
Size: 4' x 16'
Client: City of Albany, CA
Ellen partnered with Licsensed Therapist Belinda Hernandex Arriaga to create hope and community.
For seven weeks, workers at Golden Gate Fields were given the opportunity to tell their stories by collaborating on a mural that hangs in the recreation room in the stable area. Around 40 of the workers contributed. The results are impressive. Many of the workers come from a culture that inhibits talking about feelings. It was for this reason that artist Ellen Silva joined forces with Belinda Hernandez Arriaga, a licensed clinical social worker at UC Berkeley, to provide an outlet for the (mostly) Latino men who live and work at the racetrack. The finished mural is called, "La Nueva Esperanza de Vivir," which translates as, "A New Hope for Living."
The approximately 4' by 15' work was assembled from three sections. It was hung during a celebration on Monday, April 18. Los Centzontles, a California-based Mexican band, performed for the grooms as part of the celebration of the mural's completion. More… |
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“It's A Small World”
Size: 4' x 16'
Client: University Village, Albany, CA |
In June 2010, Ellen Silva worked with Belinda Hernandez Arriaga (LCSW), and to schedule a 7-session Healing Art mural project with families of UC Berkeley students residing in University Village, Albany, CA. The families joined together to create a mural that expresses their experience of living abroad. The families are from 7 countries: Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Indoniesia, Korea, Mexico, and Nicaragua.
During the first meeting with Ellen Silva, they expressed a need for a mural about friendship and their roots. They eventually agreed upon a "small world" theme for the overall concept. More… |
University Village - Youth Mural
June 2010 - 4' x 8
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"Visiones de Esperanza"
Size: 4' x 16'
Client: Madres Program, Puente Resource Center, Pescadero, CA
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Ten women from Pescadero went on a journey of discovery. They created a mural about their unique stories of pain, immigration, acculturation, and isolation. What came out was camaraderie, support, laughter, kinship and hope. The women come from different experiences. for this group, this was the first time sharing their stories and expressing themselves through art. They participated in a five-week-workshop, two-hour sessions per week led by Ellen Silva (muralist), and Belinda Arriaga (PIP coordinator), and July Ugas (art therapist), at Puente Resource Center. This project is one of the many that the madres project, sponsored by Bella Vista foundation provided through out the year. More…
Read more about it in the Half Moon Bay Review |
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