This page showcases Consumer/Survivor Artists and their art from Altered States of the Arts.
Ms. Altered States & Other Persona
Ms. Altered States
Mark Davis, Philadelphia, PA
“Drag with a Tag”
Mark created his act to educate and raise consciousness about being gay, living with HIV, and mental health issues. Mark received a VOICE award from SAMHSA in Los Angeles in 2009.
Henrietta
Gayle Bluebird has an alter ego known as Henrietta whose antics are the source of much laugher and fun at conferences. Gayle talks about her persona.
“Someone once asked me why I created Henrietta. I think it was one of my most daring moments in Henriettas history. She (Henrietta) had breast pasties, with her otherwise stockings and feathers. It was for a celebration at the Office where I was the Director of Peer Services. I honestly didn’t have an answer except that I always wanted to have boobs, to put it bluntly, and Henrietta fit the bill. Plus, it was everything I ever wanted to be, outrageous. Henrietta had a condom that she threw out at the end of the show and wouldn’t you know a high-level administrator caught it. I never got it back. I didn’t lose my job and the next day business as usual. Being an appropriately dressed Peer Director of consumer services.”
Partners in Art
Gayle Bluebird and Deb Trueheart have collaborated on several projects through the years, including an arts curriculum for the Academy of Peer Services.
Deb Trueheart’s Art and Dance
Living into Wholeness Workshop Series and Workbook by Deb Trueheart (2023)
Living into Wholeness is a course for healing trauma through wholeness-based practices and principles. It is a process of learning to align with and trust the larger, creative LIFE FORCE flowing through, sourcing your life with everything you need in every moment. You are invited to enter the mystery and mastery of the intrinsic wisdom in your own being. Learn to access your intrinsic state of wholeness, divinity and perfection and release the old patterns that block your authentic state of joy, openness, trust, freedom, and vitality.
Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Living-Into-Wholeness-Principles-Practices/dp/B0CVVL4WDL
and at National Empowerment Center: https//power2u/org/donate
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Deb’s Workspace
The Phoenix by Deb (Whittle) Trueheart
Moon Dance by Deb (Whittle) Trueheart
Deb’s Sacred Circle Dance
Katherine Fazio
Kathryn Fazio is an Arab-American with strong artistic roots in the Middle East. She metabolizes pain by painting and crafting poems as a literary activist. Through her own healing trauma journey, experiences and decades of professional training, she has become an active mental health advocate and speaker who motivates individuals with disabilities and helps vulnerable populations. Learn More about Kathryn Fazio
Altered States of the Arts (Psychiatric Survivors) 