by Our Voice | Oct 3, 2016 | Events, News
Artist Bios Featured Artist: Anne Heck Website: www.anneheck.com Anne Heck is a fiber and mixed-media artist. She began creating dolls to connect with emotion associated with trauma. Mentored by healing doll artist Barb Kobe and inspired by the…
by Our Voice | Sep 21, 2016 | Events, News
by Our Voice | Sep 21, 2016 | Blog
Join us this weekend for writing and journal drawing with Annie Fahy and Susan…
by Our Voice | Sep 16, 2016 | Blog
What we’ve been through shapes how we are the in the world. This might seem self-evident, but so many cultural attitudes we encounter (and perhaps even hold ourselves) fail to acknowledge that people became who they are somehow. Many of us have…
by Our Voice | Aug 17, 2016 | Events, News
Our VOICE is hosting several free workshops for individuals impacted by sexual violence. For more information or to register, please email: arts@ourvoicenc.org or visit us at:…
by Our Voice | Jun 1, 2016 | Blog
With the recent violence here in Asheville, we are deeply saddened for the victims and their loved ones, but we are also hopeful that with the opening of the Family Justice Center this summer, we will continue to improve our community’s services…
by Our Voice | May 26, 2016 | News
Our VOICE remains committed to our mission: “In the pursuit of a community that is free of sexual violence, Our VOICE serves all individuals in Buncombe County affected by sexual assault and abuse, through counseling, advocacy and education.” We…
by Our Voice | May 9, 2016 | Blog
Self-care is so obvious a prescription for first-line crisis responders that it has become something of a cliché: before you can put the oxygen mask on your child, you must first apply it to yourself. The consequence for not giving yourself…
by Our Voice | Apr 26, 2016 | Blog
Witty banter, catch phrases, and prison rape jokes are common rhetoric in our society. So I ask, is the image and joke soap on a rope, a slippery slope? Are we encouraging, condoning and finding sexual violence funny? The roaring laughter that…