How to Write Your Memoir (And Actually Finish It) — A Writing Workshop with author Natasha Tynes
Join author Natasha Tynes on Thursday, February 12th, 2026 at 7 PM Eastern Time, for a special fundraising workshop to support Mission Belonging programs!Writing a memoir isn’t about having a dramatic life—it’s about knowing how to shape your story. In this workshop,...
More Than a Valentine: Drawing the Human Heart: A Visual Arts Workshop with artist Liz Lockett & NMHM
Join us on Wednesday, February 11th at 7 PM Eastern Time for More Than a Valentine: Drawing the Human Heart with artist Liz Lockett & NMHM. Move beyond the cliché heart shape and learn to draw the real thing. In partnership with the National Museum of...
Art Saves Lives: Coming to You Live, from the Abyss by Neha M. Sampat
I brought my high school literary magazine home to distressingly little fanfare. I placed it on the coffee table, where it sat until my Nana1 came to visit. He found it there, collecting dust, and gave it a read. “Neha! You are a poet,” he exclaimed, as he shuffled...
Art Saves Lives: “The Colors of a Resilient Warrior: How Art Saved My Life” by Amanda Barkster
“Writing became my palette, my lifeline, when the weight of my story became too heavy to carry alone.” I used to think resilience was invisible—a quiet, colorless force that held me together when everything else was falling apart. But I’ve come to realize that...
Art Saves Lives: “the only place i feel safe enough to question god” by Rick Writes
What device do you use to keep your vice in a vice? Creativity forges the keys to release us from these shackles. This instrument can also break locks. Every time I try and break free, I try & find moments to capture, the goal is to paint a polaroid of time. A...
Art Saves Lives: I Write by Steve Watson
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 even...
Art Saves Lives: From Viewing To Creating, From Healing To Thriving by Susan Niemi
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 using creativity...
