About the founder
Krizia Guerra, MFA
Artist, educator and facilitator creating grounded experiences for meaningful transformation.
Krizia has spent more than twenty years guiding people through meaningful learning in classrooms, studios, healthcare settings and retreats. The through-line has always been the same: give a person a material to work with and the conversation that follows is more honest than any icebreaker will produce.
Words in Color grew out of that observation. After years of teaching studio art and designing curriculum, she began facilitating expressive art sessions for groups carrying real weight: caregivers, veterans, educators and teams in the middle of hard change. The method was refined session by session, with an emphasis on structure, consent and dignity rather than performance.
Today she facilitates and trains, leads the Creative Founders Institute, and keeps a working studio practice. She believes the point of the work is not the painting. It is the person who walks out steadier than they walked in.
Background
- MFA, studio art practice
- 20+ years in K-12 and higher education
- Therapeutic and expressive art facilitation
- Curriculum design for STEAM and creative programs
- Trauma-informed group facilitation training
- Programs delivered for veterans, first responders and healthcare teams
The studio practice
Twenty years at the worktable
Every Words in Color experience is grounded in a working studio practice: real pigments, real canvases and two decades of guiding people through the honest conversation that begins when hands are busy.
The mark
The unfinished circle
Our symbol is a single expressive paint throw. It begins with a bold release, travels with texture and splatter, then softens and stops just short of closing.
The movement is release. The color is expression. The open space is the reminder that none of us are finished. We are all still becoming. The circle itself speaks to wholeness, connection and renewal.
A word from Krizia
The questions people ask before they book
- Why creativity, and not conversation?
- People protect themselves in conversation. Give the same person a brush and the guard drops, because the attention moves to the color instead of the confession.
- What about people who say they are not creative?
- They are usually the ones who surprise themselves. There is no skill requirement, so the only thing being asked of anyone is honesty with a color.
- How do you keep a group safe?
- Structure. Every session has a clear beginning, a clear middle and a clear close, and no one is ever required to share what their piece means.
“I am not trying to make artists. I am giving people a way to put something down that they have been carrying alone.”