Painting is therapy. Therapy should be for everyone.
Walk-ins welcome. Every age. Every ability. Every paycheck.
We’re the nonprofit side of Faith’s studio in Seal Beach. We bring brushes and a calm room to kids on the spectrum, wounded warriors, hospice families, foster kids, seniors, and anyone else who needs an hour to make something with their hands. If you can’t afford it, you don’t pay.
Why we exist
An elderly couple came in not long ago. He chose a canvas and started painting. His wife is disabled and couldn’t lift the brush herself, so her nurse stood next to her and guided her hand across the canvas. They painted side-by-side for two hours.
That’s what happens here, basically every day. Kids on the autism spectrum who can’t sit still anywhere else sit still here. Veterans who don’t talk much start talking. Hospice patients make something to leave behind. Foster kids who get shuffled between placements have a thing that’s theirs.
Faith built a for-profit studio that quietly does a lot of free and low-cost work. The foundation exists so that work doesn’t bankrupt the studio — so we can pay our instructors, ship paint kits to wounded warriors out of state, run sensory-aware sessions, and keep the door open to anyone who needs it.
Not because we say so. Because it works on a six-year-old who can't sit still and on an eighty-six-year-old whose hands shake.
Sliding-scale every program. Free for participants on WWP / VA / Regional Center / hospice / foster referral.
We’re built around the for-profit studio she opened in 2023. Same room, same energy, same WALK-INS WELCOME.
Can’t make it to Seal Beach? A paint kit and a Zoom session arrive at your door each month.
Walk in, paint, take it home
Therapeutic painting reaches every demographic that walks through Faith’s door. Sliding-scale on every track.
Combat-injured veterans + caregivers
Adaptive studio sessions and mail-order kits for combat-injured veterans who often feel discarded after leaving the service.
See this program →Kids on the autism spectrum + families
Sensory-aware small groups designed for autism — visual schedule cards, choice-based art making, predictable structure.
See this program →Child Life patients, hospice patients + families
Bedside arts programming and family memorial work, in partnership with Child Life and Recreation Therapy.
See this program →Service members, spouses, military kids
Creative-wellbeing programming for military families during deployments and beyond — anchored by Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach.
See this program →Veterans, including service-connected wounded
VA Recreation Therapy partnerships, VFW + American Legion programming, and veteran-specific kits.
See this program →District public, charter, homeschool charter umbrellas
Title-I-aligned classroom dispatch + after-school programming + the Manager for a Day kid-runs-the-studio program.
See this program →Senior wellness, adult day programs, assisted living
Title III-D senior wellness programming, in-studio and on-site at care facilities.
See this program →Children + youth in foster care
Foster-system-aware programming through Olive Crest, Foster All, Orangewood, and OC DSS.
See this program →Adults with developmental disabilities
California Regional Center vendor programming with per-session DDS voucher revenue.
See this program →Can’t make it to Seal Beach?
Every month a curated paint kit shows up — brushes, canvas, supplies, sometimes ceramics. A Zoom session walks everyone through the project. Veterans referred by WWP or the VA, kids on Regional Center vouchers, hospice families, and foster kids paint for free. Everyone else pays what they can.
Sliding-scale waivers and full sponsorship available. Just ask.
Stuff that’s happened in the studio
Seniors + caregivers
An elderly couple came in. He chose a canvas and started painting. His wife is disabled and couldn't lift the brush herself, so her nurse stood next to her and guided her hand across the canvas. They painted side-by-side for two hours.
Schools + youth
Faith hands the keys to a kid for one Saturday. They greet customers, ring up tickets, pick the playlist, and decide what colors come out of the supply closet first. Every Manager for a Day comes back glowing.
Wounded Warriors
A veteran walked in with his caregiver, looked around the studio for ten minutes, then sat down. By the end of the session he had painted a brush stroke for every brother he'd lost. He took the canvas home and asked when he could come back.
If you run a Child Life program, an MWR office, a Title-I school, a Regional Center day program, a VFW post, or a hospice team — we want to paint with the people you serve. Tell us what’s on your mind.
