Washington-When Karen Bens discovered that an art processor in Portorico, which was transferred by the hurricane, could not afford the clay that its customers need, it has emerged to work.
The wife of Vice President Mike Pines, a watercolor -trained aquatic artist and a defender of the unknown mental health profession, has gone to the Virginia Art Supply store that she was visiting when she lived in the state during his term in Congress, and bought 120 pounds of clay that was dried and isolated on board the second air force of their journey down.
“She cleaned him.”
Mrs. Pence has made artistic treatment her case since she learned about her for the first time in more than a decade. She visited many technical treatment programs, in the United States and abroad, and on Wednesday in Florida, nine months after the administration, she planned to officially announce the goals of the Technical Treatment Initiative.
It wants to help people understand the difference between artistic therapy, arts and crafts, and to realize that artistic therapy is an applicable option for the treatment of shocks, injury and other life experiences. She also wants to encourage young people to choose artistic treatment as a profession.
“I do not think that many people understand the difference between therapeutic art and artistic treatment.” “The school has a program for artistic treatment, which I described as” tremendous. “
She explained that getting rid of a girlfriend can be curative, but it is not the same as art therapy, which contains three elements: a customer, a trained and art processor.
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Although it is eager as it revolves around raising an art Therapy image, other issues help to make Karen Bens a sign as well.
One of them helps military families, especially husbands. Her only son, Michael, in the Marine Corps.
There is also her interest in honey. Mrs. Pence has installed the beehive on the basis of the American Maritime Observatory, where the official residence of the president is located to help draw attention to the decrease in managed bee colonies that officials say can negatively affect the American agricultural production. She had a beehive at the residence of an Indiana ruler for the same reason.
Now 60 years married to the Vice President since 1985, Mrs. Pence has long been seen as one of the most trusted political advisers for her husband. You are often together on trips, in the White House, or at the Observatory, they always hold on hands.
Since her return to Washington in January (the family lived in the region when she served her husband in Congress), she accompanied the vice president in goodwill rounds in Europe, Asia and Latin America, as well as trips to wipe the recent hurricane damage in Texas, Puerto Rico and Virgin Island. You are trying to visit art treatment programs wherever you go. Journalists who travel with Pence often watch his wife; They often bring them cookies when it returns to the press cabin for the small hadith.
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She even did a little campaign, urged Virginia to vote next month to Ed Gilsby in what is seen as a tight ruler race.
“It is really a difference, I can tell you. No one thinks we will win,” she said, in a clear reference to Trump Pence’s ticket.
The vice president often refers to his wife as a “prayer captain” for the family. The gatherings led to prayer during their addiction trips.
“We are people of faith, so we just try to deal with everything with prayer,” said Ms. Pence from her office on the second floor of the Eisenhower Executive Office building in the White House complex, where she and her employees enjoyed desirable opinions on Washington’s memorial and Washington’s memorial employee. Technical therapy graphics presented as gifts adorning the external office.
She proudly offered many of her paintings, including the Capitol Dome, Vice President’s residences, the ball of canning the ball that turned into a flower, a cardinal bird, and pink peony. It turns many of its watercolors into trapped publications and commercial cards that it aims to the technical therapists they meet.
With the exception of countless pets, including two cats, a dog and a rabbit called Marlon Bundo, the factors are empty eve. Their son and two adults are out of their own.
“I think for us that this is an appropriate time in our lives for this role because our children are outside the college. They are living their own lives,” said Ms. Pins.
It also launches a blog in conjunction with Wednesday’s announcement to accelerate her visits to art treatment programs.