August 5, 2024
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Amarillo veteran hopes to create local CreatiVet art therapy program


An Amarillo veteran is working to create more art therapy opportunities for fellow local veterans by establishing a CreatiVet Chapter in Amarillo.

Maria Hernandez hopes to encourage more area individuals to attend and participate in her CreatiVets art classes to better help veterans, their spouses and family members utilize the process of creating art as therapy, similar to how pottery helped Hernandez overcome some of her hardships while serving. The process of being creative, she said, is what helped her express what she was never able to put into words.

Maria Hernandez local veteran, creates her Pysanka and invites veterans to her upcoming Amarillo Warriors Heart for Art: Glass Blowing Workshop, held Dec. 9 from 10 a.m. to noon held at the Sunset Center located at 3701 Plains Blvd.
Amarillo Veterans learn how to create Pysanka eggs as a form of art therapy during CreatiVets program, brought to Amarillo by local veteran Maria Hernandez.

“After coming here and becoming involved with Amarillo Art Institute I was amazed by how many people said they were a veteran too or their husband and that inspired me to do what I’m doing now, trying to get a chapter of CreatiVets established here in Amarillo. I want other veterans to get that chance or opportunity to find something that they are not expecting,” Hernandez said.



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