Art Cures

Adriana Marchione, REAT, RSMT, Bridging Life and Art, Creative Therapist and Teacher, Filmmaker, Artist

Adriana is a filmmaker, teacher, speaker, movement educator and arts therapist. She supports people to bridge their creative expression and life experience.

04/22/2026

🚨 Last Chance to Enroll 🚨

We’re just 2 days away from Unhooking from Addictive Habits: A Somatic Arts Approach… and registration is about to close.

During our time together, we will:

✨ Explore how movement, drawing, and somatic practices can help shift addictive patterns
✨ Reconnect with your true self beneath habitual behaviors
✨ Gain tools to support healing, regulation, and creative expression

🗓 Friday, April 24 | 12–3pm ET
⏳ Final call to register

Join us live or receive the recording.

👉 Don’t miss this opportunity to experience the power of embodied creative healing. https://ismeta.org/course/unhooking-from-addictive-habits-a-somatic-arts-approach

04/15/2026

So much of what we call “habit” lives below the surface.

In the body. In the nervous system. In patterns that formed for a reason.

When we only try to change them from the mind, we often stay stuck in the same loop.

In this upcoming ISMETA workshop, Unhooking from Addictive Habits: A Somatic Arts Approach, I’ll be teaching practices that help you work with these patterns through the body, using movement, art-making, and somatic awareness as a way in.

This is a space to explore gently, without pressure, and to discover what becomes possible when you bring curiosity to what you usually try to control.

🗓 Friday, April 24
🕰 12–3 pm ET
💻 Live on Zoom (recording available)

If this feels relevant in your life right now, I invite you to join us. Open to Members of ISMETA and non-members. Therefore all are welcome. Registration closes April 17th!

👉 Save your spot here:
https://ismeta.org/course/unhooking-from-addictive-habits-a-somatic-arts-approach

04/12/2026

A quick trip to DC with Dianne Griffin after our big screening in Charlottesville. She suggested we dance in front of the art. I said no, and then yes. This is the ongoing struggle. How can we open to expression? To freedom? To truth in times like these? ‘Dance, Dance, otherwise we are lost…’

Art exhibit at the Hirshorn Museum - Mark Bradford, ‘Pickett’s Charge’

04/08/2026

There’s a moment in life when something begins to shift. The stories you’ve been carrying, the roles you’ve played, and the quiet question of “what now?” start to feel more present.

What if this next chapter isn’t about slowing down, but about becoming more honest, more creative, and more connected to yourself?

I’m so excited to be co-creating an online retreat with Marialuisa Diaz de Leon called Living Your Legacy: A Creative Voyage into the Second Half of Life. Together, we’ll explore this stage of life through movement, visual art, and writing in a supportive, collaborative space.

This retreat is for anyone navigating transition, reflecting on purpose, moving with grief, or simply wanting to reconnect with their creativity in a meaningful way.

📅 June 19–20
🕰 11 am–5:30 pm ET (on Zoom)

🐤 Early bird pricing is available through May 19th.

Learn more and save your spot here 💛 https://art-cures.com/legacy/

04/01/2026

We all have ways we check out.

Scrolling. Overworking. Food. Numbing. Avoiding.

Not because something is wrong with us, but because we’ve learned how to cope.

In this ISMETA workshop on April 24, we’re going to look at those patterns honestly and work with them through movement, art, and writing.

No fixing. No forcing change. Just awareness, expression, and new possibilities.

Unhooking from Addictive Habits: A Somatic Arts Approach

Deadline to register is April 17. Recording available.

Save your space here: https://ismeta.org/course/unhooking-from-addictive-habits-a-somatic-arts-approach

03/25/2026

There is something powerful about making space to create together ✨

I’m opening up Lab Time again on April 10 from 1–2:30pm ET, and you are warmly invited.

This is a space where we gather with intention and bring whatever is alive in us. You can work with writing, movement, drawing, painting, music, or any creative practice that feels supportive.

I’ll offer a gentle structure and music to help you settle in, and then we move into our own creative process while being held in community.

Many people find that when they give themselves this kind of space, something begins to open. There is more clarity, more momentum, and a deeper connection to what wants to be expressed.

✨ No experience needed
✨ Come as you are
✨ Pay what you wish

If you’ve been wanting to reconnect with your creativity or simply carve out time for yourself, I would love to have you there.

Send me a message or email me to receive the Zoom link 💌

03/18/2026

The second half of life holds a threshold many of us are never taught how to cross.

It can be a time of questioning, loss, and uncertainty. But it can also be a powerful moment to reconnect with our creativity, our purpose, and the deeper story we are here to live.

This June, I’ll be co-facilitating Living Your Legacy: A Creative Voyage into the Second Half of Life, a two-day online expressive arts retreat with the wonderful Marialuisa Diaz de Leon.

Together we will explore visual art, movement, and creative writing as ways to listen to the body, honor life transitions, and shape the legacy we want to carry forward.

If you feel the call to reflect, reorient, and reconnect with your creative spark, I would love to have you join us.

✨ June 19–20, 2026
✨ Live on Zoom
✨ Earlybird pricing available through May 19

Learn more and enroll: https://art-cures.com/legacy/

📷 Credit: Taylor Hickey

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03/12/2026

Charlottesville! I’m so happy to share that our documentary, The Creative High, is going to be showing at the premiere venue in town, the Paramount Theater on Thursday, April 2nd! The largest venue we have ever screened the film.

This event is a fundraiser to support a very special women’s recovery home. Come out for a spectacular night out and support a good cause.

I will be there along with producer Dianne Griffin flying in from San Francisco for a VIP event before the screening. And there will be an art auction as well with art created by women involved in Georgia’s Friends.

Get more info and buy tickets in my bio or go to .

03/11/2026

✨ New ISMETA Workshop ✨

Join me for Unhooking from Addictive Habits: A Somatic Arts Approach

🗓 Friday, April 24
🕛 12–3pm ET

In this experiential workshop we’ll explore how movement, drawing, and embodied expressive arts practices can help us understand and shift addictive patterns while reconnecting with the true self beneath habitual behaviors.

Together we’ll explore tools that support recovery, nervous system regulation, joy, and creative expression — for ourselves and for those we work with.

📅 Registration deadline: April 17th

I’d love to have you join us. 💫 https://ismeta.org/course/unhooking-from-addictive-habits-a-somatic-arts-approach

03/04/2026

The second half of life is not an ending. It is a threshold.

Together with Marialuisa Diaz de Leon, I invite you into Living Your Legacy, a virtual creative retreat where we will explore how the second half of life can become a time of renewed purpose, expression, and meaning.

Through art, movement, and reflection, we will gently shift from the story of “it is too late” into the lived experience of “now is the time.”

Join us live on Zoom | June 19th and 20th | 11am to 5:30pm ET

Early bird pricing is available through May 19.

This is a space to listen deeply, honor your story, and begin shaping the legacy that wants to emerge.

Learn more and enroll. ✨https://art-cures.com/legacy/

02/28/2026

Here’s Joey, our baby kangaroo. 💓

After my dear cat Pablo died at the beginning of COVID, there was a lot of emptiness. As so many of you know pet loss cuts deep. So we took a short break from having cats that ended up turning into 5 years.

And then it became hard to make the transition to pet ownership again. We tried getting two kittens after moving to Virginia who were a little too feral, and it completely stressed me out. We gave them back to the foster org. Then there were a lot of starts and stops.

In early January, we decided we were as ready as we would ever be and that we were going to look for another ginger cat, an adult cat or older kitten. We took a trip to the local ASPCA and there was this guy at 5 months. He was affectionate and confident and let me hold him in his arms.

We almost left to sleep on the decision but someone else was coming in an hour specifically to meet him. So I took a big breath and we jumped in.

Kittens are a lot of work! Tearing around, getting into my well cared for plants, demanding attention - yet now at 6 months we are all finding our rhythm. In some ways life is easier without a pet, but the wonder and sweetness he brings is unmatched.

02/26/2026

I recently learned of the work of Minneapolis painter Mary Guzowski, who has been creating what she calls “protest paintings” in response to the fear and upheaval unfolding in her local neighborhoods. Living amid the tension and uncertainty surrounding recent ICE raids, Mary turns to her canvas during sleepless nights. 🎨

Painting becomes her way of staying present, processing what feels overwhelming, and transforming anxiety into color, gesture, and form.

Mary is a professor of architecture at the University of Minnesota and has also been an active Zen Buddhist practitioner for decades. These paintings are not only protest. They are meditation. 🕊️ They are witness. They are a way of metabolizing chaos without turning away from it.

In times like these, creativity can become a buoy. 🌊 Not an escape from reality, but a way to stay steady within it. Art can hold what feels unbearable and, in doing so, help us remain human. ✨🖌️

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Adriana is an arts therapist, movement educator, teacher, speaker, and filmmaker. She supports people to bridge their creative expression and life experience.