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Community Art Show – April 2025
To open our community art show, Afrah Abdulkader—a dedicated advocate for survivors and public health leader—reflects on how this art workshop became a space for healing, connection, and cultural pride.
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Roots & Ruins
Afrah Abdulkader
Sustainable materials
Handwritten Arabic words like "سلام" (peace) and "محبة" (love) bloom among the branches, echoing universal dreams in a deeply personal script. Beneath the tree, a dinosaur roams through a prehistoric landscape—an unexpected yet powerful symbol of survival, grounding the piece in ancient memory. This fusion of timeless endurance and cultural expression transforms the artwork into a living story of healing passed from generation to generation.
Bling Bling
Rochelle Smith
Sustainable materials
Titled Bling Bling, this radiant butterfly bursts with color, chains, and charms—each detail reflecting a celebration of life, freedom, and personal flair. The butterfly, a universal emblem of transformation, becomes a canvas for joy, draped in metallic necklaces that shimmer with playful resilience. Surrounded by cultural snapshots and buttons like memories stitched into time, the piece becomes a dazzling tribute to renewal and the beauty of simply being alive.
May Our Hearts Change
Steve Webb
Sustainable materials
Two hands reach across a radiant spectrum of color, offering a tender exchange lit by a glowing star—the symbol of shared humanity and change. With mandala-like buttons anchoring each wrist, the piece evokes how healing starts through mutual recognition and the simple act of reaching out. Titled Love & Understanding, it poses the heartfelt question: "May our hearts change?"—an invitation to embrace growth, empathy, and transformation.
One Heart, Many Beats
Karen
Sustainable materials
Radiating with joyful bursts of color, Un Corazón ("One Heart") celebrates unity through shared love and expression. Each bead, button, and dot becomes a heartbeat—echoing the rhythm of community, culture, and connection. Centered around a glowing heart, the artwork reminds us that despite our differences, we all beat as one.
Still Wings, Strong Heart
Rose
Sustainable materials
This butterfly radiates quiet strength, its wings adorned with red gem trails and vibrant buttons that echo resilience through beauty. The symmetry of the design symbolizes balance and transformation, while each textured detail tells a story of survival and self-expression. It's a tribute to growth in stillness—a reminder that even in silence, we can shine.
Colors of Life
Tim
Sustainable materials
A tree stands tall against a vibrant rainbow backdrop, each color hand-colored to reflect the emotional landscape of life—joy, pain, hope, and love. Decorated with buttons of all shapes and textures, the branches bloom with memories, voices, and stories passed through generations. Mga Kulay ng Buhay is a joyful ode to cultural roots and shared resilience, reminding us that every life is made up of many brilliant shades.
Flight Through Every Color
Frederick
Sustainable materials
This butterfly soars with the full spectrum of color, each wing a patchwork of emotion, memory, and movement. Adorned with buttons—anchors, flowers, spirals—it symbolizes grounding, growth, and the cycles of life. Like a soul in flight, the piece radiates a joyful defiance, proving that even through struggle, transformation brings beauty.
We Rise in Love
Kari
Sustainable materials
This heart, wrapped in red thread and adorned with warm textures, bursts outward like a beacon—radiating hope, healing, and connection. Surrounded by cut-out words like "peace today," "ignite hope," and "bloom through art," the piece becomes a living manifesto of resilience. Every button, bead, and woven strand tells a story of community rising together—one step, one act of love at a time.
Crossroads of Growth
Jason
Sustainable materials
At the Crossroads of Creativity, textures of nature, history, and imagination intertwine—palm leaves, bark, moss, and gold fragments all converging in a quiet, grounded dance. Each material feels like a memory unearthed, a question of roots and growth, of where we come from and where we go. With a button at its base like a seed of intention, the piece invites us to explore how art emerges from the soil of our shared stories.
Sailing Toward Purpose
Nathan
Sustainable materials
This mixed-media sailboat, set against a textured sea and golden backdrop, captures the spirit of forward motion and perseverance. Red accents symbolize progress—bold and intentional—while the peaceful waves and small shells ground the journey in hope and resilience. With a peace sign marking its course, the piece becomes a quiet testament to moving forward with purpose, no matter the waters we face.
The Road to Joy (and Snacks)
Calum
Sustainable materials
This whimsical path of goldfish crackers winds between signs marked Joy and Truth, inviting viewers to reflect on life's journey and its delicious unpredictability. Along the road, handwritten notes like "scriptures," "learning," and "baptism" hint at personal milestones and spiritual exploration. With humor and honesty, the piece reminds us that finding meaning often happens somewhere in the messy, meandering middle.
Where Faith Grows
Dorkens
Sustainable materials
This brightly colored house symbolizes more than a shelter—it represents a sacred space, a God-given gift where growth, love, and spiritual transformation begins. The handwritten message above speaks to divine purpose, seeing the home as a nurturing place for children to live to Earth and become more like Jesus. Radiating joy through its vibrant pinks and teals, the artwork reminds us that home is where faith takes root and blossoms.
Guided by Light
Emmy
Sustainable materials
Gliding across gentle waves beneath a handmade sun, this sailboat becomes a symbol of calm journeys and new beginnings. The textured yellow sun, sculpted with care, shines warmth over the red-striped vessel, reminding us that light always guides us forward. With its simple beauty and playful spirit, the piece captures the joy of sailing into hope, no matter where the tides may lead.
Spotted Joy
Noreidy
Sustainable materials
This bold, handcrafted ladybug comes to life through vibrant red clay and black button spots, combining texture and color in a playful celebration of nature. The simple materials create a striking contrast, making the ladybug feel both familiar and joyfully unique. With its wide-eyed charm, the piece radiates curiosity, creativity, and the beauty found in life's smallest creatures.
Wings Made of Joy
Astrid
Sustainable materials
This joyful butterfly is a vibrant symbol of resilience, decorated with repurposed materials that reflect the artist's personal loves—from glittering accessories to a tiny slice of pizza. Each wing is a patchwork of texture and memory, showing how healing can be playful, meaningful, and deeply individual. Created in community and layered with stories, this piece reminds us that even the smallest joys—like favorite foods and smiling hearts—carry strength when shared.
Progress / Progress
Blas Martinez
Sustainable materials
This winding road stretches between two signs—Progress and Progress—inviting reflection on how growth can take many forms. Colored with rich, layered strokes and crowned by a burning sun, the path suggests that resilience isn't linear, but a journey shaped by strength, detours, and discovery. Created through the lens of community, this piece honors the shared pursuit of healing, where even the twists and turns are part of moving forward—each one a different kind of progress.
The Door to Belonging
Donte C
Sustainable materials
This colorful house bursts with personality—its door outlined in fiery shades of orange and pink, inviting warmth, welcome, and new beginnings. Decorated with buttons like memories and stories placed gently on the walls, it reflects how home can be both a refuge and a celebration of individuality. In a community-driven exhibition about strength and healing, this piece reminds us that resilience begins at the doorstep—with color, care, and the courage to belong.
Fire and Water
Silvanna Oropeza
Sustainable materials
Titled Fire and Water, this piece uses bold color to show how opposites—like red and blue, or fire and water—can reach toward one another in harmony. Though different in every way, the two hands symbolize how people with contrasting identities can still connect, balance each other, and build something meaningful together. In a world shaped by difference, this artwork quietly reminds us that healing often begins when we find unity without losing ourselves.
All of Me, Out Loud
Jack McKee
Sustainable materials
Outlined by a hand and brought to life with beads, buttons, candles, and unexpected textures, this piece radiates energy and individuality. Each material—bright orange beads, cinnamon stick, googly eyes—adds its own voice, creating a playful and powerful celebration of creativity and identity. Like a hand reaching out, it reminds us that resilience comes from embracing all the parts that make us unique and sharing them boldly with others.
Peace of My Heart
Tristan Gardner
Sustainable materials
Radiating from a bold red heart, this piece combines seashells, beads, and buttons to tell a personal story of peace, place, and love. The seashells bring memories of the beach, the peace symbol reflects a hope for calm, and the shimmering beads honor the warmth of a mother's jewelry. Rooted in what feels good and familiar, this artwork shines with joy and reminds us that resilience is often built from the small, meaningful things we hold close.
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No Place Like Home
Caroline Santos Vilanueva
Sustainable materials
Titled No Place Like Home, this colorful, textured collage is a celebration of comfort, love, and individuality. Each element tells part of the artist's story—yellow for self, orange for a caring stepdad, pink for mom, a lock for safety, a monkey for adventure, and buttons for happiness shared. Bursting with playful energy and warmth, the artwork is a joyful tribute to a home where love and memories grow strong, proving that resilience begins in the spaces where we feel most ourselves.
Shine Through Love
Evelyn Gonzalez
Sustainable materials
Radiating from a glowing heart, this piece uses pink and red buttons to represent love, joy, and the connections that hold us together. Green beams made of buttons and color burst outward, symbolizing growth and energy, while each corner is anchored by patterned tokens like guiding stars. The artwork reminds us that even in difficult times, love—when shared freely—can shine the brightest and inspire healing across every direction.
All Colors Can Connect
Mikey Flores
Sustainable materials
Titled All Colors Can Connect, this piece uses soft rainbow tones to show that people of all backgrounds can reach for one another with empathy, strength, and hope. The two hands, gently extended, represent the possibility of community and connection across all differences—reminding us that unity doesn't mean sameness. In a world that often divides, this artwork offers a quiet but powerful message: when we embrace each other's colors, we build something stronger together.
Cycles of Becoming
Donna J. Ow
Sustainable materials
This textured collage weaves together natural elements—leaves, bark, dried flowers, seeds, and pumpkins—layered with warm brushstrokes and repurposed materials to reflect the rhythms of growth and change. The earthy tones and organic forms remind us that resilience, like nature, is cyclical: it breaks down, transforms, and blooms again. Through every dried petal and layered detail, the piece celebrates how beauty can be found in letting go, holding on, and finding balance in the natural world around us.
Rainbow Butterfly
Kalia Lee
Sustainable materials
Titled Rainbow Butterfly, this radiant piece bursts with every color of the rainbow, symbolizing joy, hope, and the beauty of embracing all emotions. Each wing glows with positivity, showing how color and creativity can lift the spirit and bring happiness even after difficult times. Like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, this artwork reminds us that healing can be both colorful and freeing.
Mom - Out of Time
Luke Rubish
Sustainable materials
Titled Mom – Out of Time, this butterfly is built from paper clippings, patterns, and colors that carry the memory of a complicated, beautiful relationship. Though the artist and their mother never had the chance to heal old wounds, the butterfly now becomes a symbol of her spirit—quietly continuing the conversation they couldn't finish. Through art and remembrance, this piece transforms grief into grace, showing that even in absence, love can find a way to speak.
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