In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month and our collaboration with UMass MIND of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, we would like to share studies around the general benefits of creating art and the use of the Zentangle Method for individuals with serious mental illness. If you are an avid tangler, you may not need another excuse to tangle, but here are some benefits of creating art:  Engaging in visual arts has been shown to improve emotional regulation, or the control we have over our emotional state in a diverse range of stressful situations, as well as overall well-being...

Julie writes… In conversations with other tanglers and in blog posts, I have always shared that my Zentangle journey does not involve learning all the tangles. I tend to use the same tangles again and again and I have always been content with that. This does not mean that I don’t like to try new tangles but I tend to know right away if I like a tangle or not. Or, do I? There have been plenty of times in which I have written off a tangle as “not for me” only to end up loving that tangle in the...

Jen writes...  “Blossom by blossom the spring begins” – Algernon Charles In Massachusetts, winter is just coming to an end. There have been especially sunny days in the past few weeks where we can practically smell spring in the air, and the drab, brown and gray landscape is becoming speckled with colors. The trees are budding, the first flowers are blooming, and the grass is getting greener. In Newport, Rhode Island, where we’re hosting seminar this week, there are close to one million daffodils that have pushed their way up and are blossoming, creating a landscape that is bursting with...