I’m so excited to be adding a new section to the Just My MomSense Blog!
On the Magical Mommy Monday Podcast, my amazing co-host Angela Dahlgren and I had the opportunity to chat with some awesome family entertainers. I want to continue to showcase those that are taking their passions and turning them into art for families, here on this blog!
The Artist Spotlight page will highlight one new entertainer a week. We’re going to start things off with Nicole Porter and her new album “For Children of All Ages.” As a parent and child therapist, she helps children heal through her art.
If you’ve read this blog before then you know I am a big believer of kids having tools in their toolbox to help them with speech, to regulate themselves or to express themselves. Art is such an amazing tool for anyone, but especially children. I love how this album takes listeners on a journey of healing.
“For Children of All Ages provides a rare opportunity to enjoy tunes geared toward uplifting children and families who are experiencing difficult times,” says Nicole Porter. “It focuses on fostering wellness and a sense of security, and it introduces therapeutic techniques that can be used in a playful way with all children. It’s also a gentle dip into the vast stream of possibility that art therapy holds for healing humans.”
As co-producers, co-writers, and members of the band You and Us, Nicole Porter and musical colleague Wyndham Garnett (Lola Kirke, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Elvis Perkins) bring a vibrant dynamic to For Children of All Ages. Recorded at the Chicken Shack with Nick Kinsey (Kevin Morby, Waxahatchee, Elvis Perkins), the album draws upon Porter’s and Garnett’s mutual love of vintage British rock and classic American puppetry. The songs abound with thoughtfully crafted messages of courage, love, and support, delivered from the heart with artistry, enthusiasm, grace, and more than a few giggles.
About Nicole Porter:
Specializing in early childhood, acute assessment, trauma treatment, family advocacy, and community education, Nicole Porter works as a clinical director, art therapist, and artist. Porter directed child therapy in the days following the Sandy Hook School tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012. The processes and tools developed with the Newtown families inspired her to establish a mental health organization and art therapy trauma response team, the Emerald Sketch, which mobilizes clinicians to set up sustainable creative arts therapy services following disasters or traumatic events throughout the United States and globally. Porter has led trauma response projects at sites ranging from the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina to the March for Our Lives in DC and beyond.
Her creative projects include An American Nightmare, a 2019 solo performance at Hudson Guild Theater, NYC, and The JillRabbits, a Philadelphia-based electro-pop band, of which she was a member from 2005 to 2014. The band You and Us is Nicole Porter’s first foray into recording and producing family rock and pop music.
For Children of All Ages is available now: https://www.nicoleporterdavis.com/music
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