Talents
This page has been made available to individuals living with mental illness who live in the Southern Maryland Tri-County area. Impressive are the strengths, courage and talents many of you possess. Often these gifts and talents are over-looked. Many of those who live with mental illness have wonderful artistic talents. This is what we want to see and share with others. Please share your talents with us!
You may email as an attachment to: namisouthernmd@gmail.com or mail your drawings, paintings, or poetry/short stories, (no recordings or videos) to NAMI Southern Maryland, PO Box 25, Lexington Park, MD 20653.
Please make sure that you send copies (NOT originals) of your work because we will be unable to return them to you.
All submissions will be viewed by the NAMI Southern Maryland team. Please note that they may not all be chosen to be displayed on our website. There will be no compensation given and no fee charged for displays sent to this office.
(Your personal information will not be shared with anybody else unless otherwise requested by you.)
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Liz lives with bipolar disorder, she has a beautiful mind and writes some awesome poetry. She has a blog where you can see more of what shen writes. The link above will take you to her blogspot.
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Tracia crochets, click here to be led to her web site
(90K)Tracia Lives with depression and ADHD. She has found a beautiful way to cope. -
Vera-Balloon Artist
(2K)Vera Brooks is a balloon artist who specializes in centerpieces, twists and weaves. Fascinated by such creations over twenty years ago, she took it up as a hobby. She began to decorate for weddings and birthday parties. After gaining some expertise, Vera started giving classes. Attendees flocked and flourished to her lessons. visit www.wix.com/twist2/unique
