“Exploring the Many Colors of Grief” An Art Therapy Workshop

Instructor: Lynne Gibb
Date: Wednesday, March 11 from 1:00 – 3:00pm
Free to attend, but registration is required as space is very limited.

Open to ages 14+

Join us to explore the many colors that we feel and see each day, as we connect our moods, emotions, and feelings to color. Our journey will begin with a short tour and discussion of KHAC’s current visual art exhibition Rooms of Grief and Dr. Seuss’s book, My Many Colored Days. Then, using acrylic paint on canvas board, we will create our own colorful artworks of grief.

Although a children’s book, My Many Colored Days is excellent for adults, as well. It offers a profound, poetic, and artistic exploration of emotional intelligence. It uses vivid color-coded imagery and animal metaphors to represent the spectrum of human moods, making it a sophisticated tool for emotional validation, mindfulness, and therapeutic reflection.

About Instructor Lynne Gibb
An artist, art educator, docent, wife, mother, grandmother, and gardener, Lynne Gibb has devoted her life to creativity, learning, and community. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, she earned her BFA in Art Education K–12 and continued her studies with postgraduate work in Elementary Education, Fine Arts, Administration, and the Paideia teaching method at Xavier University and the University of Cincinnati. She spent 36 years as a Visual Arts teacher with Cincinnati Public Schools, inspiring students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. Since 2012, she has served as a docent at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, sharing her passion for art with broader audiences. Deeply committed to her community, she has volunteered and taught art at the Kennedy Heights Arts Center, Talbert House, and the Cincinnati Alzheimer’s Association. In her personal time, she finds joy in creating natural forms with clay, tending her garden, traveling, playing with her granddaughters, reading a good mystery, and solving puzzles.

Rooms of Grief
What can I offer from my experiences as an art group facilitator?
First, I would have to say my 50 years of experience teaching visual arts to a diverse group of people, ages preschool – 93. (Paideia trained in the Socratic method.)
Secondly, my experience as a CAC docent trained in VTS (Visual Thinking Strategies), the Memories in the Museum program and touring folks with disabilities.
Thirdly, my work with the KHAC’s community outreach program working with Talbert Houses Passages Program for teenage girls, facilitating Open Studio, teaching adult pottery and summer camp.
Lastly, my life experiences as an artist, wife, mother, daughter, sister, grandmother and friend.