A Window Between Worlds - Art as a Healing Tool

05/21/13	Art in the Afternoon 2013 garners more support than ever before! Thanks to all who played such a special part in making this year's Art in the Afternoon the huge success it was! On May 5, 2013 over 600 guests and volunteers gathered at the Venice Skills Center for our annual comm ...
03/05/13	AWBW's 2013 Electronic Press Kit For anyone interested in reading more about the work AWBW does as well as our upcoming events, please download these documents by using the links below. We welcome you to share these materials with friends, family and ...
01/10/13	Art For Healing in Pacific Palisades ART FOR HEALING Workshop for Survivors of Domestic Violence in Pacific PalisadesAWBW is now offering Art for Healing, a new support group in Pacific Palisades for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. The fi ...
01/29/13	Job Opening: Marketing and Communications Coordinator AWBW is currently seeking a part-time Marketing & Communications Coordinator. We look forward to finding highly dedicated and talented individuals interested in joining a motivated team committed to impacting lives ...
12/05/12	AWBW's Newest Community Engagement Project I CAN WE CAN in New York's Times Square AWBW's newest community engagement project I CAN WE CAN invites the community to lend a hand, literally, to show their support and help raise awareness about domestic violence. Participants are invited to take a pled ...
10/29/12	First Annual AWBW heART gala Presents LA Mayor Villaraigosa with heART Award AWBW’s first annual heART gala food and wine tasting event was a celebration of the launch of AWBW’s third decade using art as a healing tool. Previously held at the Zazou restaurant in Redondo ...
10/01/12	AWBW's Latest Community Engagement Project, I CAN WE CAN People always ask us what they can do to end abuse. A Window Between Worlds developed a project where everyone can lend their hand, literally, to show their support and help raise awareness about this silent epidemic. C ...
08/01/12	2013 I CAN: Requiem for I Can't I CAN Hand- Artistic SamplesThe I CAN: Requiem for I Can't project invites the greater Southern California community to attend public exhibitions and performances in established venues and to join the online communit ...
07/20/12	The Peninsula Hotel and Mikimoto Partner to Host a Tea to Benefit A WIndow Between Worlds We are thrilled to announce that throughout July and August, The Peninsula of Beverly Hills is hosting the Mikimoto Afternoon Tea, a special version of the hotel's traditional Afternoon Tea that will benefit A Windo ...
05/30/12	AWBW Launches Its Next Community Engagement Project: I CAN: Requiem for I Can't "I love how this project embraces something so positive, because no matter how many times I have been told I can't, in all reality I can do anything I set my mind to."- Participant, I CA ...
05/22/12	Art in the Afternoon 2012: A Huge Success! Art in the Afternoon 2012 Nearly 400 guests joined A Window Between Worlds at the Venice Skills Center on May 6, 2012 for our annual community event Art in the Afternoon, a phenomenal day of celebra ...
11/04/11	Zazou Wine Tasting and Dinner a Great Success! An amazing night of celebration and fundraising This year’s Zazou Wine Tasting and Dinner truly elevated AWBW to a new level. We are thrilled to announce we have collected over $96,000 from this event thanks ...
09/09/11	Cathy recieves first ever Hero Award from Assemblymember Betsy Butler of the 53rd District! AWBW Founder Cathy Salser has been awarded the first ever Hero Award from Assemblymember Betsy Butler of the 53rd District! The significance of the Hero Award is to highlight constituent groups throughout the district wh ...
06/23/11	Koi Designer Scrubs raises $42,571 for AWBW Thank you koi for your remarkable support! As Cathy shared, “Art supplies and community support are critical to the success of our organization, and with koi’s contribution we have the mea ...
04/11/11	The Pearls Community Wall Builds Momentum to Help End Domestic Violence Pearls of Wisdom: End the Violence ExhibitionCreated by KIM ABELES and 800 SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC ABUSEJoin us online to make your own pearl & ...
04/27/11	Pearls of Wisdom: End The Violence Curriculum Dear Educator: A Window Between Worlds is delighted to have your class participate in the Pearls of Wisdom: End the Violence community art project. This project ...
02/23/11	A Window Between Worlds Reaches Out By juliana appenrodt · Daily TrojanPosted February 10, 2011 (2 weeks ago) at 8:51 pm in Lifestyle For many, “V-Day” is simply an abbreviation for a holiday overflowing with flowers, greeting cards an ...
12/08/09	Open Your Heart This Holiday Season Great news! Your support this holiday season will go twice as far thanks to a generous donor who will match all new and increased year-end donations. Even our youngest supporters are taking advantage of this amazing oppo ...
10/30/09	BREAKING FREE: Art as a Healing Tool Thanks to the support of the dA Center for the Arts in Pomona’s lively downtown art district, AWBW presented its "BREAKING FREE" exhibit throughout October in commemoration of Domestic Violence Awareness ...
10/30/09	Zazou - An Unforgettable Afternoon We are so grateful to our generous donors, dedicated event committee, board members, and tireless volunteers who helped make this year's Zazou Wine Tasting an unforgettable afternoon. As most of you know, our annual ...
09/01/09	AWBW's "BREAKING FREE: Art as a Healing Tool" Exhibit Opening Reception: Saturday, October 10th, 6pm - 9pm Resource Fair & Vigil: Saturday, October 24th, 6pm - 9pm dA Center for the Arts 252 South Main Street Pomona Arts Colony Exhibit runs through the mo ...
08/28/09	Advocate Spotlight - Robin Cohen For artist Robin Cohen, being an advocate for A Window Between Worlds runs in the family. Her mother Phyllis Cohen has been an unpaid staff member since 2005, her cousin Lesley Allison is a board member, and her uncle Pa ...
08/14/09	Women's Windows Program Highlight - September 2009 "For a long time now I have wanted to integrate more fun into Windows time. The Self-Nurture Portrait workshop allowed all of us to be silly and let go of the type of self-awareness that often inhibits our creativit ...
07/22/09	Renew your Ralphs Rewards Card Enrollment! NOTE: Starting September 1st, everyone previously enrolled in the Ralphs' Community Contributions program is required to renew their registration.Here's another quick and easy way to support AWBW: Start ear ...
07/22/09	Support AWBW by Using GoodSearch & GoodShop! Supporting AWBW just became easier thanks to GoodSearch & GoodShop. Both companies are powered by Yahoo! and raise money for AWBW and other charities using a model similar to paid searches on search engines such as Y ...
07/29/09	Music & Art Fest '09 Thank you to everyone who supported AWBW's first-ever Music & Art Fest - with your help we raised over $6,000! A special 'thank you' goes out to our amazing donors, especially Russ Meek & Andre Vener, ...
07/27/09	AWBW's 2nd Advocate Huddle - A Success! Just when we thought our Advocate Huddles couldn't possibly get any better, last week's meeting topped all our expectations! It was wonderful to witness how every advocate nurtures the seeds of AWBW's f ...
07/24/09	Children's Windows Program Highlight - August 2009 "I facilitated a workshop with a group of older kids which focused on self-reflection. We were expecting eight children but only one twelve year old boy and his ten year old sister attended the session.The sib ...
10/27/08	Join AWBW's Advocate Team Do You Recognize Yourself?Advocate: ˈad-və-kət, -ˌkāt 1: One who speaks, pleads, or maintains a cause; a supporter or defender Does this sound like you? If you recognize yourself in the above, ...
09/18/08	Advocate Spotlight - Tom Freeman Tom first heard about AWBW from a friend who attended Zazou. "He had really good things to say about it. I was thinking about doing a community event to raise money for a good cause and so I went i ...
04/18/08	Special Artists' Advisory Circle Project to support AWBW: Life Lessons Postcards Dear Life Lessons Postcard Artist: Postcards are already arriving and, I have to say, they’re wonderful! My thanks to everyone who is participating for making this special artist’s project in support of A Win ...
01/11/08	Our Executive Director In The News... We are thrilled to announce that AWBW Executive Director Cathy Salser has recently been honored as a "Local Hero" by Bank of America. Associate Director Audrey Salzburg, Bookeeper Trini Nuñez and AWBW Co ...
05/31/07	Art in the Afternoon Breaks $20,000! On May 6th, over 200 friends, family, survivors and volunteers filled the AWBW courtyard to help bring art as a healing tool to battered women and children. Together we raised over $20,000 - our highest ever for this eve ...
04/29/07	AWBW Art Leader Publishes � Art of Survival: Women, Healing and the Arts We are thrilled to share with you the story of Women’s Windows leader, Elka Kazmierczak, from Carbondale, Illinois, who has built her Windows Art program for 3 1/2 years and has just created a beautiful and inspi ...
03/29/07	A Heart to Heart With Our Legislators Art Leader Kristin Kinnear used the Windows Program to participate in A Heart to Heart with our Legislators: 2007 Domestic Violence Legislative Day at the State Capitol, a project of the California Partnership to End Do ...
02/28/07	V-Day Victory � Thank You All! Our deepest thanks to everyone who made V-Day USC a spectacular and moving victory. The Vagina Monologues performed by USC students were riveting and the event raised over $7,000 to sponsor art programs for survivor ...
10/21/06	One Year Later... The Impact of One Story Tree Like a message in a bottle, Lori’s Story Tree reached her son and planted a seed of connection.“I knew in the back of my mind the remote possibility that my oldest son could view my painting when AWBW put th ...
10/21/06	26 For 26 Campaign � Help Launch 26 New Programs We were astounded, and extremely flattered, that we addressed a standing room only crowd at the recent National Coalition Against Domestic Violence Conference. We left that conference with 26 agencies on our wai ...
10/21/06	Committee Development � We Welcome YOU! AWBW is currently building Event Committees for 2007 Art in the Afternoon, Zazou Wine Tasting, V-Day and Open House. Join us and help be the driving force behind our event planning and implementation! ...
10/21/06	Thank You Hint Mint! AWBW corporate partner, Hint Mint, benefitted AWBW at their Gary Baseman "artist's tin" launch. The gala reception included art by AWBW survivors and raised $2,000 via silent auction to support AWBW's ...
09/30/06	Cultural Competency�A Holistic Approach Windows at Arctic Women in Crisis Art has become a valuable part of the holistic approach to cultural competency at Arctic Women in Crisis as they integrate traditional Inupiaq values into their programs. Windows le ...
09/30/06	Zazou � Our Deepest Thanks Over 150 people filled the beautiful Zazou restaurant in Redondo Beach to celebrate 15 years of creativity and healing. The event broke our goals and raised over $50,000 to support AWBW's programs! Our dee ...
05/30/06	Community Story Tree � Join Us! We welcome all students, community members, family and friends to join survivors of domestic violence in creating a Community Story Tree. Through images of roots, bark, branches, leaves and fruit, we invite ...
05/30/06	Art in the Afternoon � Thank You for Helping Us Soar! Over 200 people filled the courtyard to celebrate 15 years of creativity and healing. We flew past our anniversary goal of $15,000 and raised over $18,000 to support AWBW's programs! Our deepest thanks t ...
05/02/06	Celebrating 15 Years of Creativity and Healing Celebrating 15 Years of Creativity and Healing From Cathy Salser, AWBW Founder / Executive Director When I filled the trunk of my car with art supplies and drove to various cities to share art as a healing tool, I fel ...
02/28/06	David's Heart Stories My seven-year-old son wanted to paint because things were ‘bugging him.’ This is what came out when I let him do the Heart Stories. Thanks so much for this resource. It has meant so much to see it h ...
02/02/06	Forever Angels - The Foundation for AWBW�s Future Since the inception of AWBW, we have had a core group of committed, generous and thoughtful donors and partners. Larry Layne, a community philanthropist and supporter of the arts, has been AWBW’s angel from our ve ...
02/02/06	Story Trees Project � Survivors Welcome to Join in! A tree is a powerful symbol of life. It gathers strength from the help it receives from its environment and it never stops growing or changing. It adapts to seasons and it carries with it an imprint of its life experien ...
02/02/06	Tree of Empowerment � Reflections from a New Women�s Windows Leader “As I reflect on the many blessings that have arrived in my life this year, the experience at AWBW tops the list! Since the AWBW training, we have been loving our Windows groups and all the creativity ...
09/23/05	Join Us - Community Art Workshops Launch This Fall by Cathy Salser, Executive Director We’re pleased to announce that Sandra Mueller, a painter, interactive media pioneer and longtime friend of AWBW, will become AWBW’s “Community Arts Advocate,&rdquo ...
10/05/05	LA Teens Say � It's Not Okay by Kristin Hall, AWBW staff Rose Curtis, a Windows Leader at Haven House, has been incorporating Windows art sessions into Haven House’s Teen Outreach Program for many years. In April 2005, Haven House spons ...
04/27/05	Windows at the Asian Pacific Women�s Center by Chun-Yen H. Chen, Executive Director, Asian Pacific Women’s Center In the beginning of 2003, APWC received a staff training scholarship from AWBW. As we began our program, we found that the implementation of ...
10/05/05	'Windows Gave My Son a Voice' “Did you know that my dad hit me and it hurt? I don’t like my dad and I don’t want him to hurt me anymore. I learned in Windows that it was okay for me to tell you that.” Three-y ...
06/20/05	Visual Voices Against Violence � Survivor's Art Circle Exhibit TheStop Violence Grant Office, a satellite division of the UniversityPolice Department at California Polytechnic University at Pomona,California (Cal Poly Pomona) recently hosted the third annual artexhibit "Visual ...
06/08/05	Handling Anger With Creativity The following story was shared by a Women’s Windows Program participant at a local agency who has since them become an art workshop leader. My five year old son, David, was having trouble handling his anger. ...
06/08/05	Safety to Heal Art Workshops Open Windows for Survivors of Sexual AssaultAt Sexual Assault Crisis Agency in Long Beach, CA, we presented our very first Windows workshop. It was a powerful night. All of the women who attende ...