About A.R.T.S.
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A.R.T.S. Anonymous is a fellowship of artists who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may recover from their common problem and help others to surrender to their creativity.
A.R.T.S. Vision
A.R.T.S. Anonymous envisions a world where each individual’s creativity is cherished as innate, unique and divinely given. Sharing our gifts inspires the best in people and is vital to a world of joy, abundance and love.
A.R.T.S. Mission
Artists Recovering Through the Twelve Steps (A.R.T.S) is a diverse creative community that supports individuals in overcoming challenges blocking their artistic expression. Through weekly meetings, ArtShares, artist-to-artist fellowship, an annual international convention, literature and a 12-Step structure, we establish a safe haven in which to explore, take risks and celebrate the many facets of our creativity.
Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
A.R.T.S. Closing Prayer
In closing, I would like to say that no matter how distanced we feel from our creative sources, no matter how long it has been since we were in touch with our creative spirit, or how feeble may seem our creative impulses, they are reawakening in our Higher Power's time, through this program and through our actions, no matter how small or how simple, a day at a time. I may not be able to see my own growth , or even to see my creations as beautiful, but I am able to see yours as inspiring and enriching my emotional, spiritual, and physical world. We are not recovering merely to hide our light under a bushel; our creative gifts are a gift. To celebrate them, we humbly apply ourselves, sometimes to the work of art and sometimes to play. May A.R.T.S. ANONYMOUS teach us that our art, celebrated, will benefit and feed our own souls first, and the world's second, for the world hungers as much for this beauty as for food. We meet here together to feed this deeper hunger.
