Inspiring Connection • Building Confidence • Transforming Lives

Creating Hope
Through Art,
Music &
Community

Nurturing human recovery, dignity, and belonging through clinical creative arts therapy and bedside acoustic resonance across regional care facilities.

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We believe every person has a story worth telling.

Sometimes music helps us hear it, and art helps us share it.

Through registered expressive arts clinicians and certified bedside acoustic musicians, Chord & Canvas brings patient-centered emotional regulation, sensory dignity and community healing directly to where isolation lives.

Our Reach • Community Dignity

Who We Serve


Adults and an instructor around a table painting together in a bright art class.

Disabilities

A smiling child holds a paintbrush at a table of paint pots.

Autism Programs

A small group sits in a circle of chairs in a quiet hall, talking together.

Recovery Centers

A man draws intently with a marker on paper, in black and white.

Veterans & First Responders

A caregiver talks with older residents at a table in a bright care home lounge.

Senior Communities

Children sit at a long table painting and drawing together in an art class.

Schools & Youth

A younger hand holds an older person's hand in a gentle moment of care.

Hospitals & Rehab

Three generations of a family and friends embrace outdoors in warm light.

Families & Community

Direct Philanthropic Stewardship

Your gift changes a life.

Every dollar contributed is deployed directly into registered clinical therapists, archival artistic supplies, and verified bedside resonance sessions across regional care wards.

  • Strict Clinical Custody: All facilitators are registered board-certified therapists.
  • Transparent Financials: 88 cents of every dollar supports program supplies and therapy.
  • Zero Bureaucracy: Immediate placement of therapy materials into regional facilities.

$100

Scholarships for Adolescents in Recovery

Funds eight weeks of clinical expressive arts cohorts and group songwriting.

$50

Art Therapy for Recovery Programs

Provides heavy cold-press watercolor pads, studio pigments, and brushes for 12 participants.

$25

Bedside Acoustic Resonance

Delivers dedicated one-on-one calming acoustic music therapy to hospice or rehab patients.

$25 helps bring art and music therapy to people in recovery.

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Featured Benefit Gathering

Upcoming Gathering & Performance

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Oct

23

7:00 PM EST

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Auburn Performing Arts Center

Auburn Live Music & Art Evening

An intimate gala showcase bringing together collaborative painter-musician pairs, silent gallery auctions of client recovery artwork, and live acoustic recitals. All ticket proceeds directly fund winter clinical program supplies across Auburn healthcare networks.

A paintbrush resting on a worn paint palette, close up.
A musician in a hat plays guitar on a warmly lit stage.
An adult guides a child painting with watercolors at a table.
An elegant hall with chandeliers and round tables set for a gala dinner.

Every brushstroke has a soundtrack.

Experience our interdisciplinary sessions where sonic frequencies guide rhythmic watercolor strokes, awakening memory and releasing stored tension.

Stay Connected • Newsletter Dispatch

Be the first to know about upcoming events, gala tickets, and more.

Receive monthly curatorial letters, client recovery stories, and advance priority reservations for intimate live acoustic performances.

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