Awaken Your Passion with Art

Visual Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions and intellect.  Creating art can improve well-being by decreasing negative emotions and increasing positive ones.  Viewing art can have the same effect.  The Spearly Center is home to many dedicated, creative and impressive artists.  The Awaken Your Passion 7^th Annual Spearly Art Show held on February 23^rd was a great success.  Over 50 residents, staff and visitors attended.  A wide variety of individual and group art pieces on display included drawings and paintings.  Many were proud to show their creative work, as many others were viewing colorful works in admiration and awe.  Visual Arts can truly nurture the spirit of life!    

What’s Your Favorite Girl Scout Cookie?

February 6^th was National Girl Scout Cookie Day and The Spearly Center residents sampled these delicious famous treats.  Members of Colorado Girl Scout Troop 632 was our neighborhood seller.  What’s your favorite? Do-Si-Do’s? Thin Mints? Samoas?  Here are some Girl Scout Cookie fun facts:

• In the 1920s and 1930s, Girl Scouts in different parts of the country baked their own simple sugar cookies and sold them to raise money for their activities.

• The first national Girl Scout Cookie sale was held in 1936.

• Thin Mints is the top-selling Girl Scout Cookie in America.

• Each season, Girl Scouts sell almost 200 million packages of Girl Scout Cookies.

• For every box of Girl Scout Cookies you buy, more than two-thirds of your purchase price is put to use by Girl Scout councils in your community.

Girl Scout Cookie season is here!  Be sure to get a box or two!

February 2017 Events in Denver, CO: Awaken Your Passion

This month, our focus on creative expression continues with a focus on art. Art, as with beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. It is understandable that some have great artistic ability and others do not. But, at Juniper we know that everyone has a passion for creative expression, regardless of ability or age. Pablo Picasso once said, “All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” He is speaking about becoming inhibited as adults. With our various art programs we encourage uninhibited creativity as a form of therapy. Creating art affords the opportunity of self-exploration and self-expression leading to both physical and mental benefits. Creating art in any of its various forms, is also about sharing a bit of ourselves with each other. Art is one way to express ourselves, and the creations are honest and true representations of our experiences. In sharing our stories through art with others we invite communication and create lasting bonds.

Art typically encompasses painting, sculpting, and drawing. But, the act of creating art can be as simple as doodling. Art is simply the creation of something outside one’s self that often mirrors what is going on within their mind, soul, and body. We use creative arts as a way to nurture the spirit of life. Join us throughout February as we focus on great varieties of art such as photography, needlework, handicrafts, painting, sculpture and more. Please join us as we share a bit of ourselves with our weekly craft classes, experience art on an outing to an art museum, and embrace our celebratory spirit with Mardi Gras and St. Patrick’s Day parties. We look forward to helping you Awaken Your Passion this month!

Our fabulous February 2017 events in Denver, CO at Juniper Village at The Spearly Center include our:

§  Cupid’s Arrow Valentine’s Day Celebration because our Spearly family continues to foster great friendship while spreading joy and love, so please join us as we celebrate this heart-warming holiday with great music and tasty treats, and our dear family members and friendly neighbors are cordially invited to this affair hosted in our quaint Country Store as light refreshments will be served on February 14^th at 2:30 pm.

§  Awaken Your Passion 7^th Annual Spearly Art Show as we are proud of the talented residents who call Spearly their home, it is our pleasure to extend a hearty invitation to our Partners in Health Care, friends, family and dear neighbors to showcase the creative and artistic styles of our residents with various mediums including water color paintings, acrylic paintings, sculptures, sketches, and photography, so please join us as we welcome our guest judges from the community to help celebrate this wonderful event on February 23^rd from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm.

§  Spearly Sidekicks Mardi Gras Soiree with King Cake and traditional New Orleans music as the recipe for this year’s exciting Mardi Gras celebration, we would like to invite our family, friends and our first responders to stop in and mingle with our dear Spearly family, so don your favorite mask and pile on the beads as we celebrate the best of the Bayou deep in the heart of Spearly, and Come Live It Up with us in our Country store on February 28^th at 2:30 pm.

We look forward to sharing our February 2017 events in Denver, CO at Juniper Village at The Spearly Center with you as you Awaken Your Passion.