Patti Fox

Recently we have contacted Deborah McCracken, Founder and Tanzanian Director of The Olive Branch for Children. We discussed our success combining mindfulness with the creative process and our interest in developing global projects. We now have an opportunity to work with 1500 patients in 14 villages, People Living with HIV/AIDS and Orphans and Vulnerable Children groups in Tanzania. We are enthusiastic and our minds are swirling with ideas on how we can combine artistic mediums with local culture and natural resources.

If you are interested in supporting this endeavor please contact me.

Come out and support San Diego Watercolor Society, Experimental Exhibition “What we’re you thinking?” Opening reception Friday, September 3, 5 – 8pm. Show runs September 1 – 25, 2010. Click on the image for more details.

Creating a comfortable and safe environment to build trust with the refugees, understanding their background and taking that into consideration, The Olympic Village requests a day in their park.

Del Mar Artist Patti Fox and her team of local educators, “The Olympic Village“, in cooperation with the IRC in San Diego, led a program teaching an art and nature based workshop to the high school refugees they met previously at the beach in Del Mar. This time the village went to their local park, Colina del Sol on Tuesday, August 3 to continue the theme of building trust with these students. Read the rest of this entry »

An article written by Roger Li on the Del Mar Times.

Refugee teens, hailing from Burma to Somalia, were exposed to a quintessential part of Southern California culture on July 12 – a day at the beach.

As part of its Students Plus summer school program, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) rewards participants with a weekly trip to the sand and surf. Each Monday, IRC staff and volunteers take the students, now living in City Heights, to a different beach in San Diego.

This particular Monday in Del Mar, however, was different. Read the rest at Lifeguards, artist treat refugees to day at beach By Roger Li