Paint Your Truth: 6-Week Community Solidarity Series

Join us in person for a fun and inspiring 6-week journey of creativity and connection! "Paint Your Truth" is all about coming together to express your unique story through art while building community solidarity. Whether you're a beginner or a pro, this series is a chill space to share, learn, and grow with others. Don't miss out on this chance to paint, laugh, and connect!

Jan 10, 2026 Week 1: Kick off the Winter 2026 series with a grounding and spacious solo-led experience facilitated by Vie Ciné. This session focuses on reconnecting with your inner voice through process painting. Participants are invited to explore color, gesture, and emotion without judgment—giving themselves permission to express freely. We open with a welcoming circle, move through embodied warmups, and journey into two hours of supported painting time. This session sets the tone for the entire series: community, courage, vulnerability, and creative truth-telling.

Jan 17, 2026 Week 2: Time: Rhythm & Creative Rituals
Guest facilitator Missy Arellano, joins Vie for a unique, time-centered creative exploration. Missy works with concepts of rhythm, duration, and personal cycles. Together, Vie and Missy guide participants through reflective prompts, meditative timed exercises, and creative rituals linked to personal and collective rhythms. Participants explore how time shapes their healing and how painting can become a grounding ritual that honors both slowness and momentum.

Jan 24 2026 Week 3: Deepening Your Inner Narrative
This solo-led session returns to the heart of Paint Your Truth: connecting to your story. Participants move deeper into their creative process with expanded prompts that explore memory, identity, and emotional layering. Using intuitive mark-making and color symbolism, participants discover new insights as their paintings unfold. Vie facilitates one-on-one check-ins during studio time, offering support and guidance for participants refining their personal creative journey.

Jan 31, 2026 Week 4: (Treasure) Journaling: Making Art from Everyday Scraps
Artist and facilitator Emily from Still Life Studios joins Vie for an exploration of consuming and creating with slowness and intention. This session blends process painting, journaling, and collage to create handmade junk journals. Participants will be invited to use their own objects in their journals, especially items that would normally be discarded (like ticket stubs, packaging, paper, and dried flowers). This workshop uses the limitless possibilities of creation with everyday, easily accessible objects, guiding artists to enter a consistent practice of creativity by saving and reusing along the way.

Feb 7, 2026 Week 5: Release, Resilience & Rebuilding
This solo session focuses on emotional release and resilience-building through creative expression. Participants use large gestures, expressive strokes, and layered techniques to process internal tensions and reimagine possibilities. Through guided prompts, they explore growth, letting go, and transformation. This is typically one of the most cathartic sessions of the series—inviting painters to move through what no longer belongs and create space for what does.

Feb 28, 2026 Week 6: Self-Love, Care Rituals & Sensory Creativity
We close the season with a nourishing collaboration with Love Balungi, led by Cathy Waiswa. This session pairs process painting with a hands-on natural body scrub–making workshop centered on beauty, care, and sensory delight. Participants explore themes of self-love, touch, scent, and nourishment—both creatively and physically. After creating their body scrubs, participants transition into painting guided by prompts that explore softness, pleasure, and embodied joy. This closing session sends participants into spring with grounded care practices and renewed creative energy.

Vie Ciné Artist and Owner @Paint Your Truth

Paint Your Truth was founded in 2016 in response to the #MeToo Movement, with a mission to support sexual assault survivors and promote justice. Its first workshop took place at the Hyde Park Library, attended by now-Attorney General Andrea Campbell. Paint Your Truth focuses on the self-care and mental wellness of marginalized communities who often lack access to traditional healthcare. In light of political changes and increasing healthcare privatization, Paint Your Truth’s services are more vital than ever. Facilitated by Vie Cine, each workshop is uniquely tailored and has been featured at events such as the City of Somerville’s ArtBeat Festival, Gilman Square Arts Festival, Boston Public Libraries, and more. Recently Paint Your Truth completed a Wellness Art Wednesday series with the Cambridge Public Library on September 10, 2025. Vie Ciné facilitated and guided participants in a mindfulness art therapeutic workshop to prevent burnout while exploring creativity.

Artist Missy Arellano

Missy Arellano is a transdisciplinary artivst whose work explores the way Queer and disabled humans navigate the complexities of existence. Through analog collage & photography she plays with paper to unfold and understand her dreams. Collaging is more than an art practice, it is a form of meditation, reflection, and creation and a way to activate and amplify voices.

With over two decades of experience in the arts, Missy has contributed to a wide range of creative initiatives, from facilitating and designing children’s programming in museums to managing artists at festivals, fundraising for public television, and teaching young children about contemporary art. Her current work focuses on creative placemaking and inclusivity in public spaces. She hosts collage gatherings to foster dialogue on the intersection of community, play, and creativity. Through her collage practice, she prompts participants to envision, dream, and build more inclusive and vibrant urban spaces.

Emily Caulfield, Artist and Owner of Still Life Studios

Artist and facilitator Emily from Still Life Studios joins Vie for an exploration of consuming and creating with slowness and intention. This session blends process painting, journaling, and collage to create handmade treasure (junk) journals. Participants will be invited to use their own objects in their journals, especially items that would normally be discarded (like ticket stubs, packaging, paper, and dried flowers). This workshop uses the limitless possibilities of creation with everyday, easily accessible objects, guiding artists to enter a consistent practice of creativity by saving and reusing along the way.

Cathy Waiswa, Owner and Product Creator of Love Balungi

In 2019, my life changed forever when I lost my mother. Looking for a way to honor her memory and keep her spirit alive, I turned to the world of beauty, which had always fascinated me. Growing up, I would watch my mother in the mirror, gracefully applying her body butter, lip gloss or lipstick, completely in awe of her radiance and confidence. Inspired by those precious moments, I started Love Balungi right from my dining room, channeling my passion for beauty and the memories of my mother’s elegance and strength.

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