A 12-WEEK STORYTELLING JOURNEY

Voices
on Canvas

Honoring Your Past. Embracing Your Present. Creating Your Future.

Through guided reflection, storytelling, conversation, writing, and art-making, participants transform lived experience into meaningful visual narratives.

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Voices on Canvas original painting with the Creative Storyteller Studio Café paw-print logo
FY2027 ARTIST OPPORTUNITY GRANT RECIPIENT

Voices on Canvas is supported in part by a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, an agency of the State of Arizona.

PAST • PRESENT • FUTURE

Your story is more than what happened. It is what you create next.

Voices on Canvas creates room to explore identity, culture, resilience, gifts, passions, values, and life experience. No perfection is required—only a willingness to reflect, create, and listen.

WEEKS 1–3

Identity & Safety

Honoring Your Past

Begin with belonging. Explore identity, roots, culture, memory, and the experiences that helped shape you.

WEEKS 4–6

Story & Emotion

Embracing Your Present

Give color and language to emotion through guided storytelling, reflection, discussion, and creative expression.

WEEKS 7–12

Voice & Purpose

Creating Your Future

Recognize gifts, strengths, passions, and possibility—then bring your story together in a meaningful final creation.

WHAT THE JOURNEY HOLDS

Creative, reflective, and deeply human.

  • Structured art experiences with room for personal choice
  • Writing, poetry, storytelling, or spoken-word exploration
  • Conversation that honors identity and lived experience
  • Connection, self-discovery, and personal growth
  • A final artwork or creative narrative shaped by your voice
VOICES ON CANVAS INTEREST FORM

Let your story find its canvas.

Share your interest in an upcoming cohort. This form begins the conversation and does not require payment or guarantee placement.