November 9 • 1-4pm

Free admission for veterans, active-duty military and their families!

Join Museum of Glass for a special Veterans Day Celebration, featuring free admission all day for veterans, active-duty military, and their families. The celebration program will include a color guard ceremony, a performance by Tacoma Banjo Club, and the awarding of certificates to honor Hot Shop Heroes program participants.

The Veterans Day Celebration program will take place from 1-4pm in the Grand Hall. Guest speaker Kristin Weber, Outpatient Creative Arts Therapist for VA Puget Sound, will speak at 3pm.

About the Speaker

Kristin is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Registered Art Therapist working for VA Puget Sound as the outpatient Mental Health Creative Arts Therapist. She attained her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University in 2012. She returned to Lesley University, graduating in 2019, to complete her Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a specialization in Art Therapy. She interned at the Bedford VA in Massachusetts, working as an outpatient art therapist while also creating and facilitating groups for inpatient units. Following graduation, Kristin worked as a Recreation Therapist at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke on a late-stage dementia unit. She then transitioned into the role of Residential Clinician in an intensive care group living environment, working with dual diagnoses associated with trauma, focusing on community reintegration after long-term psychiatric hospitalization.

Kristin’s graduate work focused on the neurological impact of art therapy on PTSD and TBI, granting her access to a deeper connection to, and understanding of, the work that she does. As a therapist, Kristin seeks to support client recovery through a trauma informed, person-centered practice. She is extremely passionate about the positive impact that creative processing and engagement can have on the body, mind, spirit, and emotions.