Art — and its ability to ease loneliness, bolster resilience and help service members heal trauma sustained on and off the battlefield — is at the center of a Veterans Day celebration coming to the O.C. fairgrounds’ Heroes Hall museum on Saturday, Nov. 9.
“Art of Service: Honoring Veterans Through Creativity” takes place from noon to 3 p.m. and features art-centered exhibits, activities and performances, information on area veterans resources as well as a commemorative ceremony to honor the men and women who served.
“Being in war and part of the military, it’s very emotional, it takes your whole life,” Carol Singleton, the fairgrounds’ director of education and exhibits, herself an Army veteran, said Friday. “So, art can be a way to heal and to express and deal with the emotions of military service.”
From combat artists who sketched battle scenes in real time and artfully painted World War II bombers and fighter jets, and from art inscriptions in letters written by soldiers and journals kept by prisoners of war, art predominates, Singleton added…