Who We Are
The Anger Project was conceived by Haas, who also serves as its director and producer. What began in 2005 as a seed of an idea—a room full of dishes to smash—has since evolved into a collaborative process inviting others to explore and engage with their own complex relationships with anger. The project hosted two small-scale pilot studies in 2019 and 2021, featuring facilitated conversations and movement workshops, in Arizona (in person) and Texas (online). In 2022, it received its first grant, a Research and Development Grant through Arizona Commission on the Arts. Because of this grant funding, The Anger Project catalyzed into something more than an idea, scribbles in notebooks, and private workshops with friends. CV
For more information about Haas, visit: https://www.haasbodypractices.com
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Photo by: Rachel Marie Photography www.rachelmarie.photography
Collaborating Artists
The Anger Project collaborates with artists whose work independently explores themes of anger, grief, embodiment, and liberation. These artists bring their own practices into the space, enriching the experience not only for participants but for the project itself.
Helen Lee (they/she) is a Queer Asian, Chicago-born interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the senses, sits with death, aging and the entanglement of light and shadow, summer and winter and grief and joy. They weave movement, storytelling, visual arts, video, plant medicine, taxidermy, installation and/or social practice that examine facets of trauma, racism, anger, healing and meanings of home, love and war.
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They joined The Anger Project in 2022 and are grateful for a community to safely express anger, rage, pain, to scream and smash objects together.
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For more information about Helen, visit: www.momentumsensorium.com
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Photo by: Whitney Bradshaw www.whitneybradshaw.com, @thewhitneybradshaw, @OUTCRYfilm
Maria Renée (she/her) is an artist, writer, connector, and community grief-worker. All of her work is done in collaboration with the natural world, rooted in the vibrant Sonoran Desert ecosystem.
Maria has participated in The Anger Project through facilitating grief circles that emphasize the relationship between anger and grief through somatic and creative practices.
For more information about Maria, visit: www.maria-renee.com