All donations and proceeds will help fund Healing with Weaving Community Outreach Programs, donating weaving loom kits to local Kansas City hospitals, medical and counseling facilities, and provide community weaving workshops starting this summer with Children’s Mercy Hospital in KCMO.
This summer, textile artist and University of Kansas MFA Graduate student, Debbie Barrett-Jones, with the help from Arts KC’s Inspiration Grant funds and supporters like you, will be launching her first Healing with Weaving Community Outreach Program’s pilot project at Children’s Mercy Hospital Adele Hall Campus in Kansas City, MO. The project will be providing 200 Healing with Weaving Frame Loom Kits with instructions to be used by patients, family members, and staff to explore the meditative and therapeutic benefits of weaving. Designed to make weaving accessible, these kits provide tools and a creative process that can help anyone experiencing anxiety, stress, grief, and loss. These funds will also help pay for professional videography services for a weaving video tutorials that can be viewed on www.healingwithweaving.org
Healing with Weavings’ mission is to continue making and donating these weaving loom kits to other local Kansas City hospitals, medical and counseling facilities and provide community weaving workshops after this summer's pilot project.
During the month of June Debbie Barrett-Jones Textiles will be fundraising for Healing with Weaving with proceeds from all woven scarves and artwork going towards Healing with Weaving Community Outreach Program. Shop and support by going online to www.debbiebarrettjones.com or in-person at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center Shop in the Crossroads. Make sure to Stop by Friday, June 4, 2021 for First Friday Opening Day from 11am-8pm to be the first to choose from all the newest woven scarves made by Debbie Barrett-Jones during her first year at KU. For more information, join the FB Event.
For more information and to find out how you help, please visit www.healingwithweaving.com.