Paint Your Truth: 6-Week Community Solidarity Series

Paint Your Truth: 6-Week Community Solidarity Series

Join us in person for a fun and inspiring 6-week journey of creativity and connection! 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!

Week 1 | Jan 10, 2026 : Manifesting 2026 Vision Boarding

Kick off the 6 Week Art Makers Series with grounding our thoughts, goals and desires with solo-led experience Artist and facilitator Vie Ciné. This session focuses on creating our own manifestation vision board via painting. (All materials provided.)

Week 2 | Jan 17, 2026 : Time: Rhythm & Creative Rituals
Artist and guest facilitator Missy Arellano, joins Vie for a unique, time-centered creative exploration. Missy works with collaging concepts of rhythm, duration, and personal cycles. Missy will lead a unique crafty collaging clock project. (All materials provided.)

Week 3 | Jan 24 2026: Deepening Your Inner Narrative
Artist and facilitator Vie Ciné picks up where we left off in the first session, follow up with this self esteem goal shaping workshop. Participants move deeper into their creative process with self etseem reflection to empower themselves. (All materials provided.)

Week 4 | Jan 31, 2026: (Treasure) Journaling: Making Art from Everyday Scraps
Artist and guest 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. (All materials provided.)

Week 5 | Feb 7, 2026: Release, Resilience & Rebuilding
Artist and facilitator Vie Ciné leads an emotional release and resilience-building painting exercise based in self love (the best love). Participants are invited to explore the depths of self acceptance via a colorful tapestry. (All materials provided.)

Week 6 | Feb 28, 2026: DIY Spa Day Body Salt Scrub
We close the 6 Week Art Makers Series with a nourishing collaboration with Love Balungi, led by owner and craftwoman 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. (All materials provided.)

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.