The exhibit reveals the inner workings of the artist and the final creation, it illuminates the transformative process of making art. The artists work is organized around the three stages of the creative process: Beginning, Facing the Obstacles, and Celebration. Though all art making involves all three stages, each piece selected highlights one aspect of the process.

Making art provides access to our inner world where personal images and symbols emerge from deep within. Seeing our creative expressions as metaphors for our lives, we illuminate our inner truths and guide us towards wholeness and integrity - a continuous practice. With every choice we make, we can recreate our lives. We keep alive a deep sources of joy through self-expression. Art work is a symbol for this larger process, the divine creation of which we are all a part.

We the artists are recent graduates, current students and faculty of the New England Art Therapy Institute. As artists and writers we have diverse backgrounds. Some of us are professionally trained, others are self-taught. What we share is that we have all have been transformed by the process of making art that reflects our own unique truths.

As you view the art and text, we invite you to reflect upon your own journey towards authenticity. We offer this exhibit both to celebrate and to connect with others who walk this path.

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This exhibit is the online version, it's original presentation to the public was viewed from May 10 to June 5, 1998 at A.P.E. Gallery 3rd Floor Thorns Market, Northampton, MA.