Forest Lawn Arts Programming Week 3: Identity Collage

Program Description:

Week 3 will focus on exploring identity, emotions, and mental health, specifically what areas of our bodies hold certain emotions. Youth will explore the concepts of collage and layering. They will be instructed to create a portrait of themselves, with the understanding that they may focus on one specific area of their body or a full portrait to express what emotions they feel and where specific emotions are held. One youth, for example, may discover that they express happiness or love through their heart while carrying stress in their heads and shoulders. How does emotion travel through our bodies? And what significance does it hold? are the two main questions for this week.