Adoptee Artists

On September 30, 2022January 21, 2024 By lynellelongIn Adoptee Artists, Adoptee Artwork, Adoptee support provided by adoptees, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoptive Country, Birth Country, Diversity in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Art is an incredibly powerful tool to convey the complexities of lived experience in adoption. Here is a compilation of the artwork presented at ICAV.

Meg at K-Box Adoptee Takeover Night

On September 26, 2022January 21, 2024 By lynellelongIn Adoptee Activism, Adoptee Artists, Adoptee Artwork, Adoptees Educate, Australia, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Diversity in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Korea, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Meg O'Shea presents her comic about returning and searching in Korea at our 9 Sept 2022 K-Box Adoptee Takeover Night in Melbourne, Australia.

Two Reasons to Stay in Bloom

On June 23, 2022June 22, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Roxas-Chua shares their artwork and writings to help us understand the complexities of being adopted, the ongoing journey to come to terms with who we are

If the Moon Could Be My Birthmother Now

On May 5, 2022April 20, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Roxas-Chua shares their artwork and thoughts when contemplating their birthmother, giving tenderness to self and coming to terms with being an adopted person.

Painting My Infant Self

On April 3, 2022March 26, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

JS Lee creates an art piece of her infant self and the transformation of the beginnings of her life into a nurturing moment of self love and acceptance.

Kyleigh shares about Adoptee Anger

On February 27, 2022February 21, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Kyleigh shares as a Colombian about Adoptee Anger, feeling different, the pain of not being understood, the structures that promote adoption as a solution.

My View of Adoption has Changed with Time

On January 22, 2022January 17, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn Uncategorized1 Comment

Maria shares how her views and understanding of adoption have changed over time as she's connected herself more to the adoption community and educated herself.

Toxicity and Grief

On December 21, 2021June 1, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Abandonment and Rejection, Adoptee Anger, Adoptee Artists, Adoptee Artwork, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Origins Search, Philippines, Racial Mirrors, Sense of Belonging, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USALeave a comment

by Dan R Moen, adopted from the Philippines to the USA. Part three of this series focuses on toxicity and its impact with grief. The black vine-like shapes represent toxicity and how it manifests itself within and around all of us. It’s depicted as an uncontrollable beast and has completely engulfed an individual. It grows …

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Grieving for the Child of the Past

On December 13, 2021June 1, 2024 By lynellelongIn Adoptee Artists, Adoptee vulnerability, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Philippines, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USA1 Comment

Dan R Moen, Filipino adoptee and talented artist shares a 3 part series of paintings depicting the internal struggles an intercountry adoptee traverses.

Mental Balance and Art

On October 25, 2021October 17, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Jonas Haid shares his artwork, his passion and provides a piece inspired by ICAV, the work we do to support fellow adoptees around the world.

Sunday Junk Journaling

On August 26, 2021July 29, 2022 By Desiree MaruIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Filipino adoptee Desiree Maru shares her method of Junk Journaling that gives her a tool to help process life and its challenges. Creative, therapeutic, fun.