One art student has found a way to focus the therapeutic benefits of art on body confidence… by running breast-painting workshops.Sarah Macias, 22, runs the women-only events that allow women to cover their breasts in paint and press them against paper to create abstract pieces.

Each workshop lasts three hours and also involves dancing to help women learn to honour and love their bodies.Sarah created the workshops after making her own vagina and menstrual blood paintings – so she’s used to getting misogynistic criticism.
People see the word breasts and immediately sexualise them,’ says Sarah. ‘That’s really hard to swallow.These classes are about honouring the female sexual body. Women are taught they can’t use their sexuality because it’s dirty.Doing art with the breasts or with menstrual blood is a way of making art and showing there is nothing wrong with it.

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