The Health & Wellness Library hosts a variety of programs and events on relevant health topics including:
- Monthly Wellness Wednesday talks from local health professionals followed by a feature film held in the District’s Conference Center Auditorium
- Wellness programs such as Chair Yoga, Music Storytime, and Drums Alive Music Therapy for Seniors held at the library and outdoors
- Ongoing activities such as Crafternoon, Knit & Crochet Club, and MORE!
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Attendance priority and sign-ups vary for each program and event, please click on each event to read specific program details. We offer programs sponsored by the Grossmont Healthcare District and support our partner organizations’ events for the East County community. Contact us at library@grossmonthealthcare.org or 619.825.5010 to learn more.
Artist Exhibit
Summer Art Exhibit – Impact: Works by Kathy Willcuts Garcia, Steven Garcia, Tatẻ Garcia
In winter and spring of 2024, ArtReach San Diego produced a series of free art workshops in collaboration with the Southern California American Indian Resource Center, Inc. (SCAIR) to create opportunities for the Native community to learn from artists and mentors within their community. With the goal of promoting intergenerational learning, these workshops were led by practicing artists, cultural-bearers and youth. Kathy Willcuts Garcia, Steve Garcia and Tatẻ Garcia led meaningful visual arts workshops that focused on traditional and contemporary practices. Each workshop highlighted elements of community building, cultural education and contemporary issues, inspired by the teaching artists’ individual practice, activism and background. In celebration of all the artists who participated this spring, “Impact” highlights the community and showcases the diverse artistic practices of the Teaching artists.
Kathy A. Willcuts Garcia is a Cultural Bearer/Cultural Educator, Artist and Northern Traditional Danced based in Lemon Grove, CA. She is Lakota and an enrolled member of Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, also of European descent – Scottish, Irish & French. She creates Jewelry with intention and works with natural gemstones for their healing qualities, inspired by Lakota tribal traditions. Kathy is also an herbalist and gardener and has worked with youth in community gardens, taught youth cultural art, spirituality, sacred tobacco teachings and meditation for over ten years.
Steven Garcia is a multimedia artist based in Lemon Grove, California and part of the Tongva, Apache, Yaqui tribes. As a multimedia artist, Garcia has also worked in mural and landmark art such as the “Lips” public art piece in Lemon Grove. He is also a cultural educator, actor, musician, storyteller and traditional dancer in Men’s Northern traditional style and an Eagle dancer.
Tatẻ Garcia is a 23-year-old Lakota & Tongva resident of the Kumeyaay Territory (San Diego area). They are an acrylic and oil painter, writer, beadworker, and fancy shawl dancer. Raised in a family and cultures heavily involved with art, they pursued different creative forms and mediums continuing through college and beyond, with the support of community at the heart of Tatẻ’s continued practice of the arts. They aim to use their knowledge and use of certain art styles in reverence of the mental, emotional, and spiritual needs or questions of community.
