Jewel pictured with ‘Mazda’ by Sam Gilliam the Contemporary Gallery at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, January 3, 2024. Photo Courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
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This event benefits The Church and Inspiring Children Foundation.
A pay-what-you-can donation can be made to secure your space.
All amounts are welcome. Suggested donation is $50 per person for in-person attendance and $5 for livestream access.
Jewel, the four-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and mental health pioneer, is coming to The Church! We invite you to an evening of dialogue and exploration, insight and discovery, as the well-known musician, poet, and visual artist enters conversation with Sheri Pasquarella, Executive Director of The Church. Earlier this Spring, the award-winning musician made her debut in the visual arts world presenting The Portal: An Art Experience by Jewel at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. This included Jewel’s Double Helix oil painting, Chill sculpture, and drone sky story set to an original score. The exhibition explored the intersection of music, mental health, technology, and art. Join us as we welcome her to our community and learn how her visual arts disciplines helped her in crafting melodic structure in songs, how it became essential in her healing and mental health advocacy, what it was like to create and present the immersive art experience at Crystal Bridges, what her creative practice is like when writing poetry, what challenges she faced penning her autobiography, and more.
Declaring her visual art as her “first love,” Jewel’s passion for art dates to her childhood, predating her songwriting career. Like Jewel’s concept of the Three Spheres of existence included in The Portal, this event celebrates three of our core programs, Knowledge Friday, Insight Sunday, and Wellness Monday. Please note, that this event is an artist’s discussion and not a musical performance. Following the dialogue and presentation there will be a Q&A with the artist.
ABOUT INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION
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The Inspiring Children Foundation transforms lives through a whole human approach to physical, social, emotional & mental health. We help youth and families from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds to rise above their challenges and struggles in life: To heal, grow, and become their best selves. This includes difficult situations like teenage anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and various other mental health challenges. Our best-in-class curriculum encompasses a 10-step program with over 40 tools and 100 activations to help our youth find their best selves.
This award-winning program has been developed by some of the world’s leading lived-experienced experts over the past 25 years. It encompasses a variety of evidence-based practices and is now being implemented in schools, nonprofits, corporations, and social services programs.
Inspiring Children Foundation has created a community full of healing, growth, high achievement, meaningful connections, and happiness, resulting in our youth becoming leaders in life. 95% of students in our Leadership program have become so qualified that colleges have offered scholarships for academics & athletics (tennis).
Visit inspiringchildren.org
ABOUT JEWEL
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Jewel is a 4x Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, visual artist, actress, New York Times best-selling author, and mental health pioneer. Best known for her musical talents, Jewel’s passion and training in sculpture, drawing, and painting began before her songwriting career. Over the years, she has continued creating and working with paint and clay. In spring 2024, Jewel made her debut in the art world at Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville, Arkansas with ‘The Portal: An Art Experience by Jewel’, featuring her painting and sculpture. Throughout her art, Jewel combines her passions for storytelling, experimentation, and democratizing mental health. For the past 21 years, Jewel’s Inspiring Children Foundation and Jewel Inc. have brought specially designed mental health programs to at-risk youth and leading corporations. Jewel created SELLA, a language arts curriculum for schools integrating social and emotional learning and mental health practices, and recently co-founded Innerworld, an innovative virtual mental health platform. Jewel’s remarkable journey has taken her from a childhood with no running water on an Alaskan homestead to becoming a multi-platinum recording artist and mental health advocate. She has released 13 studio albums, including her latest release Freewheelin’ Woman, and is currently on a national co-headlining tour with Melissa Etheridge this summer.