Written by: Cameron Sonnentag Creative Wellness is a helpful coping and healing strategy, especially for people facing depression and anxiety and engaging in dance, movement, art creation, and mindfulness activities aids in managing stress. I find power in Creative Wellness because I can address my feelings and heal. I am drawn [...]
Written by: Cameron Sonnentag Invigorate yourself and your activities while you’re stuck at home. With the closing of schools, sporting events, local business and more, you might find yourself trapped in isolation. Often times you feel bored as if you’re going stir crazy. This is the time to get out your to-do list [...]
Written by: Paulina Segarra Pedraza Illustration by Roberts Rurans This sudden change in our lives has taken us on a journey back to our childhoods. Before smartphones, laptop computers, and other forms of instant gratification, creativity was the only solution to boredom. We would pretend that the floor is lava and that couches [...]
352Creates invites you to attend ArtSpeaks’ annual “Courageous Young Voices” event held at the Historic Thomas Center on Sunday, March 8th from 4 to 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public and encourages active participation. For more information to sign up, see the bottom of the page. “Courageous Young Voices” [...]
Could you live your life without creating any waste? This seems like a daunting task for most Americans considering we each create about 4.4 pounds of waste daily, as reported by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). However, the zero-waste movement has spread across America and made its appearance in Gainesville on February 1st at [...]
Art, words, and acts as refreshing as water flowed throughout the Civic Media Center on Saturday for the interactive art event No New Planet. The event hosted by North Central Florida indivisible urged the community to come together to support our Mother Earth! Huge thanks to all the involved organizers and volunteers that helped make [...]
In layman’s terms, creativity can be defined as the “transforming [of] ideas, imagination, and dreams into reality.” I wanted to know if this definition translated across various cultures, ethnic groups, fields of study, ages and genders. 352Creates asked students and community members of Gainesville a simple question: What does creativity mean to you? I picked [...]
The Civic Media Center hosted Averted Vision, an interactive art experience for November’s #CreateInPlace event. A special thanks for Civic Media Center coordinators, Jojo Sacks and Em Arnold, and the volunteers that made this event possible! This event was free and open to the public. The event was part of the 352Creates’ [...]