The Healing Power of Art

Updated: February 3, 2026

The Healing Power of Art

Zaryana Bezu, HPA student, 2024-2025

Experience the healing potential of art through painting, light and darkness drawing, sculpture, and form drawing. Develop your creativity, artistic abilities, and observation skills and begin to lay the foundation for working artistically to bring health and well-being for yourself and others.

In our time, there is a widespread need for the inner benefits that artistic work can provide. Art is calming, centering, embodying, and enlivening and directs our forces of health into positive pathways for our body, soul, and spirit. The Healing Power of Art program builds a foundation in the health promoting aspects of art and provides the groundwork for further studies. This program is for people of all ages and levels of experience. The online format allows participation from around the world.

Instruction via monthly online classes with follow-up assignments

See some sample exercise videos here:

Angel Wings Form

Protector Form

Growing and Dying Flower Form

Rhythmic Sand Sculpting

Materials List

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Class Schedule

HPA Schedule 2025-26Download

Program Leaders

Pamela Whitman, M.A. received her B.S. from MIT, where she studied both science and humanities. She participated in the Light, Color and Darkness Painting Therapy  training in Holland and received her certification from the Medical  Section at the Goetheanum, while also completing her Master’s degree in Human Development. Her career and interests span the fields of science, art, spirituality,  consciousness, psychology, healing, and education, all of which she incorporates  as a therapist, international adult educator, and painter.

Ken  Smith is the Director of BACWTT. He studied at Emerson College, England, and completed his training in sculpture and the visual arts with practices in pedagogical and therapeutic work. After working in Waldorf education, he taught  as Course Leader of the 3-year Visual Arts and Sculpture Training program at Emerson  College. He has been active internationally in Anthroposophical art and Waldorf education for over 25 years.

For more information, please contact: tiffany@bacwtt.org | (415) 479-4400 | www.bacwtt.org  

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