home safe projects
ART: Alvin P. Gregorio. OD on Love and Cash Me Outside.
Home Safe Project : Riding with Death, Fall 2022
The results
“Remembering Human being through contemplative craft AND DIALOGUE.”
— Rebecca Peebles
Art: Anthony Garcia Sr. White Washed 2. 2021
What else does hol sum Do? Home Safe Projects.
creative practice facilitation in a small group.
Creative Practice Facilitation is a partnership with Rebecca and the group in a thought-provoking and creative process that empowers confidence in one’s own potential. Creative Practice Facilitation is oriented toward developing self supporting habits and promoting creative mind. Creative mind is proven to increase a sense of ease and possibility in oneself, which is an important way of navigating life's challenges. Spending time together, all hands engage in learning creative practices that can be practiced anytime while not in session. The doing will be the creative work and discussion while remaining open to the being self’s thoughts, questions, ideas and memories that may arise as part of the process of creativity. This is truly an offering for creative practice resiliency and proactive mental health development.
Workshops scheduled
Spring 2026: Beaded Bouquet Earrings
Sunday, May 10, 9:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Learn a common beading technique, the beadweaving brick stitch, followed by other creative and intuitive uses of seed beads. Make hanging flower bouquets to wear as earrings or a pendant. All materials are supplied.
Spring 2026: Grief is a Garden: tending the heart through Spring at Art Gym
Saturdays, 9:30am - 12:30pm, May 23 - June 20, 2026
This 5 session class is a collage mixed-media course that aims to facilitate tending to the growing matter of grief through creative, visual art experiences. No experience necessary. This is a way-finding opportunity.
Grief is often misunderstood as a sad mind-state from which to try to escape, but we may better understand grief as a rich, dark feeling place - a healthy “soil” from which we grow and find meaning and our own style of tending. Finding and using ready-imagery, color and texture to visually communicate the grief that is often difficult to express in words, participants will follow the intuitive process of collage. Through the process, along with Rebecca and peers, one may find a place for the grieving psyche to rest and to discover one’s own resilience in the creative practice of soul-tending.
Participants will learn how anyone can use creative techniques to process emotion and settle during disorienting states of normal human grief experience.
Utilizing accessible media - paper, scissors, glue, etc. - Students will be guided through the beginning to end of creative grief-time.
Fall 2026 : Grief is a Garden, Collage and Meaning Making. November- Dec. (Saturdays 9:30a - 12:30pm)
In this 5 session collage-based course at Denver Botanic Gardens, participants spend time in the gardens and in the classroom to explore how to visualize feelings, wishes and memories that are difficult to express in words. Grief is often misunderstood as a sad mind state, but it can also be considered rich and dark like a healthy “soil” from which growth, meaning and beauty can be found.
Partial scholarships are available by contacting Melinda at SBAI@botanicgardens.org
exhibitions/events at home safe north east denver, CO, usa
Art can be difficult to relate to in a gallery exhibition space, so Home Safe is a method of experiencing creative work in a domestic setting wherein art’s intimacy takes precedence over objectification. Creative professionals share in the work together and join in dialogue, taking advantage of the comfort of home to showcase and focus on creative psychology and the “WHY” of what we do and make. Always, a meal is in the deal.
PREVIOUS HOME SAFE PROJECTS
Riding with Death - paintings by Alvin Gregorio and Prayers - paintings by Hector Zaragoza October - December 2022
The experience of professional exhibition through the lens of domesticity and familial experience.
ANIMA : small artworks by artists you think you know. December 2023 - January 2024
For the artists : Exercising creative mutuality to explore what opposes the Persona yet is the animating facility within professional art practice.
Dinner, Show & Tell : Theme : Kids’ Stuff
June 9, 2024
Be Here Now with Camilla Modesitt
November 17, 2024, February 16, 2025
Parlour Choir with Nathan Hall
March 8, 2025
Oracle Picnic at Union Hall Art Gallery
July 2025
ANIMA, corhort 2 at Home Safe Projects HQ. October 2025
An exhibition for the artists : Exercising creative mutuality to explore what opposes the Persona yet is the animating facility within professional art practice. Studio visits, art exhibition, cohort discussion over a home made meal. Generously funded by Denver Theater District.