JULY 7 • 2022 | 25

faces&places

Hillel Day School 
kindergarten, first- and 
second-graders participated 
in an Artistic Expression 
program in partnership with 
the Greater West Bloomfield 
Community Coalition. 
Taylor Beardsall, a board-
certified art therapist, life 
coach and yoga instructor, 

taught the students to use 
art when they don’t have the 
words to express their feelings. 
Each child made four 
drawings — a flower, a 
mountain, water and space. 
Each drawing reminds 
them of a different coping 
mechanism they can use when 
they are upset. 

PHOTOS COURTESY OF HILLEL

Hillel Artistic 
Expression Program

Second-graders work on their drawings.

Second-graders Reuben Schostak and Ben Sapeika
Kindergarteners Jacob Berman and Sammy Young

Art Therapist Taylor Beardsall with second-grader Dean Cohen

First-graders Annabel Hopman, Shai Weltsher and Sivan Vered

