Creative Works Studio

Creative Works Studio

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Creative Works Studio is a comprehensive community art outreach program facilitated by the Inner City Health Program of St. Michael's Hospital, in partnership with Good Shepard Non-Profit Housing as well as the Ontario Trillium Foundation. We have a beautiful, sun-filled art studio and gallery located outside of the Hospital in the South Riverdale neighbourhood.

Creative Works Studio provides an oasis from the daily rigors and challenges of life for people living with a mental illness. Our members are eager to come to a place where they can focus solely on the pleasures and healing attributes of art making while letting go of the stresses that are part of their everyday existence.

Creative Works Studio is the hope and renewal that is so necessary for returning to life, work, and educational opportunities.

In the past year we have expanded our resources and programming from two to four days a week, which includes a hands-on studio and therapeutic experience combined with additional job skill training in the arts, and reintegration into the community through mentorship opportunities.

Nine out of every 10 participants state that after joining our program, their sense of esteem and productivity has improved, helping them return to work, school, volunteering or a general sense of well-being by being able to sell the art work they create.

For more information, download our information package (160 KB pdf file) or contact the studio at 416-465-5711.