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The
Wellbriety Movement and the Arts brings
art to our sobriety, recovery, healing
and wellness dreams and realities.
It’s like “turning over a
new leaf” and finding a very old
traditional leaf. It is a leaf waiting
for us to re-connect with what it has
to offer. As Native people, our art can
be, or can become, a really important
part of intervention, treatment, prevention,
and healing from past dysfunctional behavior.
A recent White Bison national conference
offered workshops in art facilitated
by Native American artists Dana
Tiger and Sam
English. In the near future
some of White Bison’s community
Wellbriety training will include Wellbriety
and Art.
Now there are artists in recovery bringing
their talents and skills to the Wellbriety
Movement. We want to use their expression
of art as a tool to talk about recovery
and healing. A well-known example of
this use of art that has already inspired
countless people in recovery is Sam English’s
painting which we call The
Hoop Man.
As time goes on, many new artists will
create art as posters and in other formats
which inspire recovery and healing for
those participating in the Wellbriety
movement.
Here is an example of inspirational
Wellbriety art by Eric Haumpy, Kiowa,
who was an 11th Grade student at Brockton
High School in Billings, Montana when
he did this drawing as part of the 2000
11th Annual Substance Abuse Awareness
Poster Contest. Our thanks to Eric and
to the Indian Health Board of Billings
for this artwork.
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This page is the doorway
into artwork donated to help support
the Wellbriety movement. In most cases
the artist has donated a portion of his
or her asking price to the Wellbriety
Movement. When you purchase artwork listed
on this page the money will go toward
funding White Bison’s work of bringing
the Wellbriety Movement and the Arts
to Native communities.
1. Just click on the
link that contains the name of an artist
who’s work you would like to
look at and to purchase online through
the Pay Pal box located right next
to the artwork. You can buy the prints,
crafts and other kinds of art you find
here for yourself, for gifts, for your
family, or for centers of different
kinds in your community or neighborhood.
Your purchase will support both the
artist and the Wellbriety Movement.
2. The artwork you’ll
find when you go through the doorway
of these links is done by both Native
and non-Native people. The
tribal affiliations of Native American
artists are always listed on the link.
3. The artists whose
work you purchase here are artists
in recovery—people who
are on their own sobriety, addictions
recovery, healing and wellness journeys.
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