The Mental Health Association in Chautauqua County’s annual Art in Recovery Exhibit is in the undercroft of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Friday, Sept. 26, from 6 to 8 p.m. Brandon Griggs, who is preparing for a career teaching art, is returning as one of the exhibitors.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church is the site of the Art in Recovery Exhibit presented by the Mental Health Association in Chautauqua County on Friday, Sept. 26.

The church is on the corner of Fourth and Main streets in downtown Jamestown, and the exhibit is in the Undercroft, whose entrance is on Fourth Street.

MHA Finance Manager Jill Marsh welcomes visitors at the beginning of the 6 to 8 p.m. event, and light refreshments will be served. Parishioners will be able to visit the exhibit after Sunday services.

The event features works created by participants in the weekly Art in Recovery group at MHA’s Jamestown recovery center. They are an artistic expression of the participants’ own creativity and personal recovery. Facilitators of the Jamestown Art in Recovery group are MHA PR/Activities Coordinator Dianne Valvo and staffer Brandon Griggs.

Volunteer Wing Haight-Wills facilitates the Dunkirk Art in Recovery group in the MHA’s North County center in Dunkirk. The exhibit there will be on Friday, Oct. 17, from 6 to p.m.

The events are made possible in part by support from the United Arts Appeal of Chautauqua County Projects Pool Grants Program. Both are free and open to the public.

At the MHA’s September recovery luncheon, Executive Director Michael Nordin awarded certificates for 3, 7, 10 and 20 years of sobriety. Loaded backpacks were given away as prizes to two participants.

The luncheon was prepared and served by members of St. Luke’s church: Sandy Hale, Brian and Sandra Kearney, and Linda McCallum.

Everyone is welcome to the MHA recovery luncheons at 1 p.m. on the third Tuesday of the month. Like all MHA services, the luncheons are free.

The Mental Health Association in Chautauqua County is a peer recovery center offering support groups and individual coaching for people looking to improve their lives, deepen wellness, thrive in recovery, or support those on a recovery path. Peers use their personal stories to help people find recovery in their own lives in their own way.

The Jamestown recovery center is open Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Tuesday and Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Hours for the North County recovery center at Grace Lutheran Church, 601 Eagle Street in Dunkirk, are Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

To learn more about the Mental Health Association, call 716-661-9044 or visit MHAChautauqua.org or Facebook.com/MHAChautauqua. A schedule with descriptions of MHA’s dozens of groups and classes in Dunkirk and Jamestown is at MHAChautauqua.org/groups.