HOPE Center for the Arts
PROGRAMS
Visual Arts
Hope Center for the Arts offers a combination of studio instruction both onsite and online. We also offer socially engaging public art projects, exhibition opportunities, and fine craft production for our in house boutique, Hope Handmade. The Visual Arts Program serves the whole person, transforming the lives of adults with intellectual disabilities through the arts, building self-esteem, fine and gross motor skills, cultivating community integration and social skills as well as building job and vocational skills.
Our professional teaching staff offers instruction in a drawing, paiting, printmaking, fiber arts, cermanics/sculpture, and art history.
Creative Therapy Services
Creative Therapy Services provide onsite and online instruction by professionals who completed an approved therapy program. The department supports our artists by providing a therapeutic relationship for growth through dance movement.
Dance/Movement Therapy is the psychotherapeutic use of movement to further the emotional, cognitive, physical, and social integration of the individual (ADTA, 2017). Interventions include: Body Action, Kinesthetic Empathy in Observing Movement, Rhythmic Activities, Symbolism, Theme Development in Movements Sessions focus on: Body Awareness, Cognitive Skills, Emotional Awareness and Expression, Mind/Body Connection, Motor Function, Verbal and Non-verbal Communication.
Performing Arts
HOPE strives both onsite and online to meet the individual learning needs of each artists and foster the unique abilities based on the individual's skills and interests despite their limitations, disability or diagnosis. HOPE offers music, dance, video production, and theater arts instruction and public performance opportunities.
HOPE encourages artists to creatively express themselves in a secure and accepting environment. The teaching staff supports each artist and compassionately guides them to refine their skills. All artists are placed in appropriate interest-based classes where they work as a unit to achieve a project from conception to finished product. Some of the projects include creating a short film, writing and performing both arranged and original songs, reading original poetic works, and performing dramatic and movement pieces. All artists are encouraged to express themselves creatively and develop an increased self-esteem when they see the end result of their work.
Life Enrichment
Life Enrichment classes are offered onsite and online and include current events, fitness, poetry, sports, financial management, and culinary arts. The goal is to apply what they learn in the classroom to their life in the real world.
The objective is to help artists achieve independence and everyday living skills and develop their artistic and vocational skills.
CONTACT
HOPE Center for the Arts
295 E YALE LOOP
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA 92604
Phone: 714-778-4440