Healing through Art

Healing through Art is a website that I created to help users find Mental Health Resources pertaining to Art Therapy in the greater phoenix area. With the stigma behind mental health becoming less and less people are trying to find more ways to help themselves other than just therapy. This site serves as a Mental Health resource to individuals struggling to find programs that may help and be more effective than the normal "therapy" route.

My motivation behind this project is the fact that studies have shown that Art Therapy provides significant mental health benefits by offering a creative outlet for expression. This in turn can promote healing for certain individuals. These studies are very promising yet many people do not know about this up and coming strategy, and if they do know about it, finding it can be tough.

This is the homepage for Healing through Art. I wanted to keep the site very simple on the front so people are able to find what they are looking for quickly and efficiently.

This is the main content page of Healing through Art. This is where users are able to find the different Art Therapy resources all listed. These listing provide a name of resource, logo, and brief description of resource. Every resource can be clicked on and the user will be brought straight to the original creators website. There are currently 16 resources listed on the site.

This the interactive map where users are able to see all the resources with current available addresses. Users can find cross streets as well as get directions to these resources through this map.

Development

1 / Research

To begin the process of making the website, I researched many different resources that could be useful in the Greater Phoenix area for Art Therapy within mental health. Once I found the appropriate resources, I was able to find addresses and links to these sources for use on the website.

2 / Site Design

Once all the resources were accounted for, I was then able to create a website that had the appropriate spacing and layout for the resources. I took the main logo for each resource and photoshopped the logo down to the same dimensions for each logo, then uploaded that finished file to the site

3 / Descriptions

Each resource was then named and provided a brief description of each Art Therapy use. For example, one of the resources was more of a interactive show, so I described this in the bio below the photo of the logo.