Creative spaces for healing, self-expression, confidence, and connection.
Brush With the Law offers inclusive art classes that create safe, welcoming opportunities for people to express themselves, build confidence, and connect with others through creativity. We work with a wide range of community partners and participants, including correctional facilities, recovery and behavioral health programs, schools, libraries, municipalities, and other organizations that believe in the power of art to bring people together.
Across every setting, the goal is the same: to make art in a nonjudgmental environment where participants can reflect, experiment, collaborate, and discover their own voice.
HopeWorx, Inc – Norristown, PA
At HopeWorx in Norristown, Brush With the Law has taught art classes with a diverse community of participants, including people experiencing homelessness, people living with mental and behavioral health challenges, people in recovery from addiction, and people with learning disabilities.
These classes are built around respect, encouragement, and community. Participants are invited to create at their own pace, explore different materials and ideas, and take part in a shared creative experience that values each person exactly where they are.
Montgomery County Correctional Facility – Eagleville, PA
Brush With the Law has led art classes at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility with female prisoners, creating opportunities for reflection, focus, and self-expression within a structured environment. These classes offer participants a meaningful outlet for creativity while encouraging patience, problem solving, and personal insight.
Art-making in this setting supports emotional wellness and helps participants experience dignity, agency, and connection through the creative process.
Central Behavioral Health – Norristown, PA
Brush With the Law is also currently leading classes at Central Behavioral Health in Norristown. These sessions continue the organization’s commitment to using art as a tool for healing, connection, and personal growth.
In each class, participants are encouraged to experiment, communicate visually, and develop confidence through making something of their own. The process matters as much as the finished artwork, and each session is designed to support both creativity and well-being.
Camp Crossroads
Brush With the Law also led a class at Camp Crossroads, part of St. Luke’s Penn Foundation, where participants created paper beads from their own written stories. Each person began by writing personal reflections, then cutting their words into strips, rolling them into beads, sealing them, and turning them into bracelets.
This project transformed personal stories into something tangible, expressive, and shared. It offered participants a creative way to reflect on their experiences while making something beautiful that could be worn as a reminder that their stories matter.
CHOC – RHD
Brush With the Law taught classes through CHOC, the former Montgomery County homeless shelter operated through Resources for Human Development. In one workshop, participants explored hobo glyphs from the Depression era and used a Dremel tool to carve the symbols into wood panels.
This project connected art, history, and personal meaning in a hands-on way. By learning about a visual language created to communicate survival, direction, and experience, participants were able to engage with themes of resilience, expression, and shared understanding while creating bold, lasting pieces of their own.
What participants gain
- A safe and welcoming place for self-expression
- Opportunities for reflection, focus, and problem solving
- Confidence through making and completing artwork
- Positive social connection and shared creative experience
- A sense of dignity, voice, and personal possibility
Program approach
Our teaching approach centers on patience, encouragement, and inclusion. Classes are adapted to the needs of the group and may include drawing, painting, collage, journaling, collaborative work, and guided prompts that support self-reflection and communication.
We believe art can help people feel more grounded, more connected, and more hopeful. By creating together, participants are reminded that they matter and that their ideas, stories, and perspectives have value.
Interested in partnering with us?
Brush With the Law welcomes opportunities to collaborate with community partners who believe in the power of art to support wellbeing.