HARRIETTE JOFFE

Open your heart to creativity!   Let art be a pathway to explore your inner being with nationally recognized master artist, creative arts facilitator and pioneer of art therapy HARRIETTE JOFFE   Let Harriette’s passion for expression and her intimate understanding of the creative process guide you in discovering your own creative powers through music, movement and painting. Experience the excitement of artistic expression in the safe and loving environment of Harriette’s studio.

 

Workshops

Reclaim / Regain the freedom to play!

Ms. Joffe offers one-hour, two-hour and half-day workshops personally tailored for:

Individuals

Seek a breakthrough in self expression

Enjoy the full box of crayons!

Couples

Delight in fresh levels of intimacy

Children

Encourage your child to discover art

Teens

Express individuality and spirit

Family (parents and children)

Collaborate and have fun making art together

Home visits are available for those who are housebound!

Please call for more information: 413-528-0780

 

“With music, narrative, and sheer talent, Harriette Joffe was able to take brush in hand and transport our children on a fantasy journey they will long remember.” Shelley Chaiffetz, JCC, Denver CO

 

Program Outline Your day will start with a relaxed personal consultation to explore what you would like to achieve from your experience in the studio. Gentle music, simple tai chi-inspired movements, and relaxation will open your senses and prepare the space for creativity to flow. Harriette will provide you with a full palette of color and art materials and explain how you can use them. She will then guide you in exploring the beauty and challenge of your painting. As music surrounds you, evoking new colors and images, you will be filled with inspiration while a fresh perspective of who you are emerges. As you push and pull line and color, your personal marks will take shape, stories will unfold, and dreams and hopes will come to the surface. The joy and excitement of self-expression will give you the courage to move beyond your boundaries. What you produce will surprise and delight you.

 

“We fondly remember the multimedia program that you created for our fundraiser called Art is happening. It was a wonderful event! Many families participated in the painting and music collaboration. We have many pictures of families tracing and painting each other, dancing together, and having great fun. There was a joyous freedom of expression in all that they did. People talked about what a wonderful experience they had had for a long time afterward. Thank you for all your effort.” —Teri Hackler, La Casita Preschool

 

“When I work with Harriette I feel like we are in the movie, Harold and Maude– it’s not that she’s that old, it’s that she’s so cool and free!” —Alex, age 16

 

HARRIETTE JOFFE, MA, MFA Let Harriette’s passion for expression and her intimate understanding of the creative process guide you in discovering your own creative powers through music, movement and painting. Experience the excitement of artistic expression in the safe and loving environment of Harriette’s studio.

 

"After a morning in Ms. Joffe’s studio, I couldn’t recall how to mix my colors, but I understood a little more about how I express myself through my creativity." —Jeffrey Sumber, Director of Creative Counseling of New Mexico

 

“I am in awe of the ongoing cycle of life. I am but one small part of it, and it is wonderful to be a part of the universal circle.” —Harriette Joffe

 

HARRIETTE JOFFE

"The interaction of art, music and movement

is a catalyst for creative expression."

Harriette Joffe is a pioneer in the field of art therapy. Following her studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, she intuitively began to use art as a creative outlet to help veterans recover from both physical and psychological wounds at the Veterans Hospital in Providence, RI. After studying at the Rusk Institute in New York City, Ms. Joffe went on to initiate and direct several cutting edge art programs throughout Rhode Island, New Jersey and New Mexico. Formerly an adjunct professor of art at City College of New York, William Paterson University and Upsala College, Ms. Joffe is a nationally exhibited artist and a teacher of painting.

In recent years, Ms. Joffe has conducted art workshops for children, youth and adults and is the recipient of several grants. From teaching masters classes alongside such notable artists as Larry Rivers and Roy Lichtenstein to guiding teens and elders in collaborative art projects, Ms. Joffe has delighted in sharing her unique talent to communicate with people of all backgrounds and abilities.

She continues to be a leader in the development of healing through art and has honed her skills through decades of hands-on experience. Her warmth, compassionate spirit and zest for life are the innate gifts she shares in all of her work.

 

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