05/30/2026
🎨 This special workshop invites participants to explore their connection with animals and birds through drawing. Using pencil and colored media, we’ll observe and sketch an animal—whether a familiar companion or one from the wild, farm, or sky—while learning simple techniques to capture its form. You’ll also be encouraged to reflect on personal or cultural connections to your chosen animal and weave those ideas into your artwork. No prior drawing experience needed—just curiosity and a willingness to explore.
🗓️ Join us on Wednesday, June 17 at 7 PM ET for Animal Portraits that Tell a Story — A Visual Arts Workshop with artist Garima Naredi, in partnership with Path with Art.
❤️ All are welcome—no experience needed.
🎟️ Sign up here: https://circle.missionbelonging.org/c/events/mission-belonging-wednesday-visual-arts-workshop-e83f8b
📸 Artwork: Path with Art participant artist Allene Steinberg’s drawing of her cat, Gloria.
🖼️ Path with Art fosters healing and community‑building through arts engagement for individuals and groups recovering from trauma. Since 2008, they’ve been a leader in the international movement using art to restore dignity, connection, and voice.
🧑🎨 Garima Naredi is a contemporary artist working in oil paints and charcoal, blending realism with narrative depth and drawing on Indian spiritual thought, symbolism, and female perspectives. Born and raised in India, she later moved to Seattle, where she deepened her practice through Western representational training. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including at the Seattle Asian Art Museum and the Bellevue Art Museum. She also teaches at Pratt Fine Arts Center and partners with Path with Art to support healing through creative expression. Instagram:
This program is funded in part by Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant program is managed by Mid-America Arts Alliance.
