OYOV Update

Wave Pool is excited to announce a third phase and extension of Owning Your Own Voice—a creative storytelling project aiming to build community, healing, and resiliency one story at a time. This extension includes a new, hands-on program that trains women in woodworking to create community healing benches, the creation of an interactive field guide that explains spiritual autobiography creation, and the production of a community mural by local artist Dai Williams that showcases the bright personalities of the participants and some key affirmations and personal truths discovered throughout the process.  

A group of 8 women are taking weekly woodworking classes with local artist and woodworker Lacey Haslam to create transformative healing benches that will be placed throughout the city after being included in an upcoming show at Wave Pool. Additionally, these women are participating in empowerment and story-sharing meetings, where Loretta Davis, founder of Broken into Beautiful, guides them through the process of “owning their own voice” as an important step in recovery.   

Funding for this project was made possible (in part) by the Ohio State Opiate Response (SOR) - 1H79TI083294-01 grant from SAMHSA. The project is in partnership with the women’s empowerment organization Broken into Beautiful.   

For more information, please contact Cal Cullen at cal@wavepoolgallery.org or 513.600.6117  

Wave Pool is located at 2940 Colerain Ave. and is open to the public Wednesday – Saturday 12-5 pm. More information can be found at www.owningyourownvoice.org