What it does
To empower wounded veterans to heal through the arts and music, using tools they can use the rest of their lives to combat stress, depression, and other side effects of war. These programs also enable veterans to see their own capacity for success in an area outside the battlefield.
Veteran songwriting programs - program offerings, both for songwriting and visual arts programs.during the 2024-2025 fiscal year we hosted more veteran songwriting programs in nashville, tn than any year before. We also increased our participation with each of our other partners/veteran service organizations to bring the healing power of music to more veterans than ever before. Along with increases in other programs, we continued and increased the number of in-house songwriting and guitar lessons. Through this program, veterans can simply walk in to our facility, or log on virtually, where they are provided with lifesaving songwriting and music lessons without the need to wait for our next scheduled program.we also hosted community programs hosted at our veteran center in nashville where local veterans could attend guitar, songwriting, or even vocal coaching for single day events. This allows us to make an impact on those veterans right here in our own local area. These have been incredibly successful.
Introduction to art for veterans - these programs provided our high quality, multi-discipline visual art programming. Creativets continued to partner with the glassell school of art at the museum of fine arts - houston for our recurring winter art program. This 2-week program was modeled after our summer programs but offered in houston, tx where the winter weather was not so extreme. This class focused on sculpture and ceramics, but it also included elements of mixed media, woodworking, metal working, photography, and other mediums. The program was a huge success and gave us the opportunity to showcase our healing process with an entire new community of veterans and civilians. As with songwriting, we also introduced community art programs in nashville, tn that ranged from collage and painting, to photography and leatherworking. These single day programs allow those local veterans with a busy schedule to have the opportunity to learn about art, meet other veterans and create something healing.all of this was made possible with the support of our generous donors and supporters. Due to this support, we were able to afford these additional programs to build on to our foundation for the future.