Grace Kane
Painting is my refuge. When it’s just me and a canvas, my mind is finally quiet. I stop worrying about explaining my emotions and why …
Vonder Gray
My sobriety and my art are indelibly entwined. As an abstract expressionist painter, sobriety has enriched the content of my work, making it so much …
Elise Bergsten
How has my creativity impacted my recovery? My creativity informs my recovery. Given free rein, creativity can be a tool to process events of my …
Ling Sigstedt
I started drinking at 13. Hiding in my room, I invented a world with a rapidograph pen and watercolors, then attended art school in New …
Anonymous
April Artist of the Month at SRC. Before recovery, creativity always felt vulnerable, like I was doing something that wasn’t allowed. When I shot photos, …
Jennifer Centric
I have been a lifelong artist, both drunk and sober. I feared sobriety would ruin my artistry but found that it enhances it. In turn, …