# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Creativity, Resilience, and Reflection: An Expressive Arts Workshop
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 20 Aug, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 20 Aug, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Inspired by For the People, By the People, join expressive arts facilitator Kim Shaw for a restorative arts-based workshop exploring creativity as a pathway to resilience, reflection, and self-expression. Participants will engage in mindful art viewing, guided visual art-making, journaling, poetry, and breathwork while reflecting on themes of identity, change, loss, hope, and belonging. No artistic experience is necessary, and all materials will be provided. Seating is limited, so register early!

For more than 20 years, Kim Shaw (she/her) has worked as an independent artist under the name Kim Shaw Art. Her practice has included teaching workshops and private lessons, as well as completing commissioned work in painting and illustration. Shaw is a graduate of both Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo Valley Community College, holding degrees in Illustration and Studio Arts with concentrations in Art Education, Painting, and Expressive Arts Therapy. She is currently pursuing an MA in Expressive Arts Coaching and Community Building at the California Institute for Integral Studies. Her work centers on fostering individual and community enrichment through creative process, collaboration, active art-making, and shared human experience.

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- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kalamazoo/creativity-resilience-and-reflection-an-expressive-arts-workshop/200030533538020
- **Event Categories**: Art, Workshops, fine-arts, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Kalamazoo
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 314 S Park St, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, Michigan 49007
- **lat**: 42.28958
- **long**: -85.5874
- **full address**: 314 S Park St, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, Michigan 49007

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Creativity, Resilience, and Reflection: An Expressive Arts Workshop being held?
  - **A:** Creativity, Resilience, and Reflection: An Expressive Arts Workshop takes place on Thu, 20 Aug, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 20 Aug, 2026 at 08:00 pm at 314 S Park St, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, Michigan 49007.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Creativity, Resilience, and Reflection: An Expressive Arts Workshop?
  - **A:** Creativity, Resilience, and Reflection: An Expressive Arts Workshop is organized by Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Creativity, Resilience, and Reflection: An Expressive Arts Workshop is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Kalamazoo, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Creativity, Resilience, and Reflection: An Expressive Arts Workshop sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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