LIFE Services & BLOOM Partner for Special Art Show

You’re invited to Bloom Art & Integrated Therapies’ The Art of Puppets: Exploring our inner-worlds through the art of puppet-making. For the last year, Scaling Wellness in Milwaukee (SWIM) and Bloom have provided our Brain Health clients grant-funded art therapy. During dedicated sessions, clients created puppets.

Clients began the process of creating their puppets with creating a “brain” by writing down an intention or something they’d like to work on. They then crumpled the paper into a brain shape and began wrapping newspaper and masking tape to form a head, bust, or for some, a full body. The artists spent months playing with ideas of identity and exploring their creativity through a vast array of materials and objects.

You can see these puppets on display at SWIM in Concordia 27 (831 N. 27th St.) Nov. 16-24, 2026.

Bloom will be holding a private reception on Wednesday, Nov. 18 from 12:45-1:45 p.m. to celebrate the art with our Brain Health clients, families and friends.

We’re proud of our client artists for sharing their creativity and encouraging one another throughout this meaningful process. Thank you to SWIM, Marquette University and Bloom for making this opportunity possible.