by Art Saves Lives | Apr 30, 2025 | Art Saves Lives, Blog
Confiding to the impartial, sympathetic page paved the way for me to accept myself and finally reveal to my friends and family who I really am and begin to live my best honest life. I write. I write because I want to write; I write because I need to write. I write...
by Rob Haney | Apr 25, 2025 | Blog, In The Community
On Wednesday, April 23rd, Mission Belonging was honored to participate in the The Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program‘s Volunteer Appreciation Night. Veterans Consortium is an incredible organization dedicated to assisting unrepresented veterans and their families...
by Rob Haney | Apr 24, 2025 | Blog
A trailblazing veteran and passionate LGBTQ+ advocate joins our board to champion inclusive art and community empowerment. Rockville, Maryland – Mission Belonging is proud to announce that Alleria Stanley has joined its Board of Directors. A combat veteran and...
by Art Saves Lives | Apr 1, 2025 | Art Saves Lives, Blog
Editor's Preface In this hybrid essay, Susan Niemi writes with specificity, clarity, and the clear eye of a survivor who knows how much work it takes to forge a path forward again and again. Studded with lines of her own poetry, this essay is a meditation on...
by Art Saves Lives | Mar 9, 2025 | Art Saves Lives, Blog
I sat cross-legged on a curb in the middle of New Jersey in the middle of the 1970s and wrote a poem about despair. I was fourteen, it was humid and windless, and I was waiting outside my father’s girlfriend’s apartment to go home where my father and I had barricaded...
by Mission Belonging | Feb 12, 2025 | Blog, Events
Wednesday, February 12th, 2025 at 7 PM Eastern Time Thanks to our friends at Plaza for connecting us with Brandy Antonio from Liquitex for this workshop. When it comes to acrylics, Liquitex started it all in 1955. In this demonstration, attendees will be introduced to...
