CREATE
MORE,
FEAR
LESS

OK You invites people of all ages to create, share and engage in arts experiences that inspire a friendlier, more creative relationship with anxiety. Learn more

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A little support goes a long way! Join our Anxiety Society, help keep our resources free to all, and receive our limited-edition membership pin!

Do you have worries? Good news! You are human. We all have worries, we all have fears — and we also have imagination, courage, wisdom, and many other gifts that can help us through our worries and fears. 

Read our Message to Youth

Our projects and videos are great for personal, home, classroom and small-group work. (Teachers & counselors: Looking for projects that connect with your social-emotional learning goals? Start with our Workshop Guide)

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Want to organize your own workshop or club?
Our Workshop Guide is filled with helpful tips for getting started.

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Find inspiration and share your own
creations in our gallery!

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Gus / Age 10 / Grade 5

air dry clay

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Sol / Age 8 / Grade 3 / MAKE A BLACK LIVES MATTER SIGN

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Rae / Age 11 / Grade 6 / MAKE A BLACK LIVES MATTER SIGN

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Jenny Wilde / Age 47

I was inspired by the collaboration with the Portland Art Museum and made my own little shoebox museum.

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Lucy Foz / Age 11 / Grade 5

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Frankie / Grade 8

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Evelyn Nguyen-Gaumont / Age 9 / Grade 3

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Danny / Age 10 / Grade 4

  • "Just breathe."

    – Millie

  • "I conquer fear by surrounding myself with the things I love the most."

    – Angel

  • "The first part of success is failure."

    – Frankie

  • "Look at the world with love."

    – Sydney

  • "You need rain to make a rainbow."

    – Hazel

  • "Love yourself, be yourself."

    – Emma

  • "If nothing goes right, go left."

    – Sammy

  • "Grow through what you go through."

    – Agatha

  • "I was born to make mistakes, not fake perfection."

    – Bella

  • "Dab on all them haters."

    – Jazz

  • "Worries are just the things you don't know yet. Let your freak flag fly."

    – Titus

  • "Don't change, because you're perfect."

    – Kaitlyn

  • "If you are feeling stressed, take a breath."

    – Dustin

  • "Don't wait for the storm to pass, play in the rain before it's gone."

    – Jade

  • "Our deepest fears help us become the greatest dreamers."

    – Milly

  • "Worry is courage waiting to get out."

    – Kathleen

  • "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."

    – Thich Nhat Hanh

  • "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."

    – Joseph Campbell

  • "Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew."

    – Cicely Tyson

  • "It does get better! You will find your tribe."

    – Alex

  • "Don’t listen to the worries, listen to the laughter."

    – Cassandra

  • "All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. "

    – Jorge Luis Borges

  • "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter."

    – Bernard Baruch

  • "Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are."

    – Beyoncé

  • "Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles."

    – Martin Luther King Jr.

CREATE MORE, FEAR LESS is a program of the nonprofit OK You, and powered by the support of our loving community. We receive support from the Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency funded by the State of Oregon and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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