{"id":109745,"date":"2026-11-15T16:56:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T16:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/aiding-veterans-with-the-healing-arts\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T16:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T16:56:35","slug":"aiding-veterans-with-the-healing-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/aiding-veterans-with-the-healing-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Aiding veterans with the healing arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Looming in Charleston Harbor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patriotspoint.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the USS Yorktown<\/a> is a great, grey reminder of service to country. Now a museum, she is the symbolic choice of venue on the Saturday before Veterans Day for the last five years, where artist Mary Whyte holds one of her painting classes for veterans.<\/p>\n<p>This time, 30 vets attended; dozens more joined online at other sites. &#8220;So many of our veterans are isolated,&#8221; said Whyte. &#8220;But I think art, especially, is a way for them to be connected with each other \u2013 connection with other veterans, connection with community, but also connection with self.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Something missing, Whyte realized, as she traveled the country painting life-size watercolors of 50 veterans in 50 states. The exhibition, called <a href=\"https:\/\/marywhyte.com\/exhibition.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;We the People,&#8221;<\/a> has been touring the United States since 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-video embed--type-content_video is-video embed--float-left embed--size-medium\"><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/veterans-in-watercolor\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__icon\"><br \/>\n            <svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n              <use xlink:href=\"#icon-video\"\/>\n            <\/svg><br \/>\n          <\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__headline\">Veterans in watercolor<\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__video-duration\">06:04<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Its most recent stop was at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msoe.edu\/grohmann-museum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grohmann Museum<\/a> in Milwaukee, where Whyte showed it to veterans there for one of her free classes in May.<\/p>\n<p>During the seven years it took her to complete the paintings, the idea took shape: &#8220;I realized that this is something I can give to others, particularly, I think, our greatest patriots, our veterans,&#8221; Whyte said. &#8220;You can do two things as an artist. You can do art, and you can do good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/14\/971d1d73-f8f5-42e4-b6a1-4519fef24940\/thumbnail\/620x349\/81f9b30d2c9fffdcfe1632214ec5950f\/veterans-art-class-b.jpg#\" alt=\"veterans-art-class-b.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/14\/971d1d73-f8f5-42e4-b6a1-4519fef24940\/thumbnail\/620x349\/81f9b30d2c9fffdcfe1632214ec5950f\/veterans-art-class-b.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/14\/971d1d73-f8f5-42e4-b6a1-4519fef24940\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/86583fa7de01e4c331cb4f3b1feeab3f\/veterans-art-class-b.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">An art class for veterans, led by Mary Whyte, at the Grohmann Museum in Milwaukee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She created the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patriotartfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patriot Art Foundation<\/a> to help. &#8220;As one veteran said to me, a Vietnam veteran, I asked him, &#8216;What&#8217;s it feel like when you draw?&#8217; And he said, &#8216;This is the only thing that stops the voices in my head.&#8217; And I understand that as an artist. We go to this different place when we&#8217;re painting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/14\/7d401739-b7f9-44e0-b966-037cfa2ef4e0\/thumbnail\/620x465\/3094c7f113d32f26952334e6dc75d004\/carissa-dipietro.jpg#\" alt=\"carissa-dipietro.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/14\/7d401739-b7f9-44e0-b966-037cfa2ef4e0\/thumbnail\/620x465\/3094c7f113d32f26952334e6dc75d004\/carissa-dipietro.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/14\/7d401739-b7f9-44e0-b966-037cfa2ef4e0\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/6233ff38cbe5159a01fae372f563fcd1\/carissa-dipietro.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Army veteran Carissa DiPietro.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In Milwaukee that day, Carissa DiPietro was in her comfort zone, painting away the pain of the unthinkable. &#8220;I joined the Army April 15th, 1999,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And Day One of military service, I was raped by my recruiter. It happened in-between signing the paperwork and raising my right hand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then, if that wasn&#8217;t bad enough, she said, &#8220;Two weeks before 9\/11, my five-year-old daughter, Ashley May, was murdered by her father \u2013 he was also a service member.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked how she handled multiple traumas, DiPietro replied, &#8220;I did not. I just pushed &#8217;em down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For years, that is, until finally she discovered art. &#8220;So, painting, not only am I thinking of my daughter, I&#8217;m thinking of grief,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s freeing, and it&#8217;s another way for me to say that what happened to me isn&#8217;t OK. And I could do that safely in a room with those veterans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is no criticism of the artwork, only encouragement. &#8220;You&#8217;re not afraid of the paint, that&#8217;s for sure,&#8221; Whyte told one veteran. <\/p>\n<p>She goes for the gut, challenging veterans to paint their combat boots. She calls this &#8220;watercolor boot camp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They really seem to respond to that because that&#8217;s a real self-portrait, their boots \u2013 where these boots have gone, the weathering of the boots, the story that these boots can tell,&#8221; Whyte said. <\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/14\/8f09728a-53f9-4657-aa40-1d5337409ad9\/thumbnail\/620x698\/f7ad884a0ef3d0c55058bd2c7a0ea8c9\/mary-whyte-jeffry-peterson.jpg#\" alt=\"mary-whyte-jeffry-peterson.jpg \" height=\"698\" width=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/14\/8f09728a-53f9-4657-aa40-1d5337409ad9\/thumbnail\/620x698\/f7ad884a0ef3d0c55058bd2c7a0ea8c9\/mary-whyte-jeffry-peterson.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/14\/8f09728a-53f9-4657-aa40-1d5337409ad9\/thumbnail\/1240x1396\/c13e4662e6e3653484b57344d2a891a9\/mary-whyte-jeffry-peterson.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Mary Whyte demonstrates painting a pair of combat boots. Navy veteran Jeffry Peterson followed with his own watercolor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Navy veteran Jeffry Peterson served on warships in the Pacific during the 1970s. Paintings of combat boots bring out an emotion in him. &#8220;Because most likely, somebody&#8217;s not here that fit into those,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what his boots say to him, Peterson replied, &#8220;Welcome home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are video tutorials online, and a weekly online &#8220;art muster&#8221; for veterans who want tips, or just camaraderie. Whyte said, &#8220;I would love to see one day, maybe the Saturday closest to Veterans Day, where we have the Great Veteran Paint-Out all across the country.&#8221; With flags flying, and the message loud and clear that a grateful country really does thank them for their service.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/14\/dcd96e33-82cd-4566-98be-2d6c1d893e46\/thumbnail\/620x349\/e39a8d346e57dd80659b2f4708fccde7\/mary-whyte-leads-art-class-for-veterans-b.jpg#\" alt=\"mary-whyte-leads-art-class-for-veterans-b.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/14\/dcd96e33-82cd-4566-98be-2d6c1d893e46\/thumbnail\/620x349\/e39a8d346e57dd80659b2f4708fccde7\/mary-whyte-leads-art-class-for-veterans-b.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/14\/dcd96e33-82cd-4566-98be-2d6c1d893e46\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/9c1135654fd81073da7b5aa68e82c963\/mary-whyte-leads-art-class-for-veterans-b.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Mary Whyte leads an art class for veterans in Milwaukee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Not one veteran should be homeless, not one veteran should be hungry after all that they&#8217;ve given us so that <em>we<\/em> have a home, a place of safety,&#8221; Whyte said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what we owe our veterans, Whyte replied, &#8220;I believe we owe veterans, in many ways, our lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Story produced by Jack Weingart. 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