Sheryl Alexa Shaffer is a story teller and the content creator of Veterans Helping Veterans TV, VHVtv Sheryl Shaffer is a WAC Veteran.
Sheryl’s videos 2024
Veterans Helping Veterans TV, VHVtv, is a mobile remote production team and are no longer restricted to filming in a studio environment. Since October 2022, I have been traveling and filming content, with VetArt, the Veterans Art Project, as a documentarian and film with an iPhone Pro and edit on the iMovie on an iPad Pro.
In fact, there is so much content that I am repurposing the original iPhone interviews I did with Veteran Artists who have been part of the VetArt Pop-Up Art Cafes in California. All the VetArt interviews that we filmed are on this web page. My goal is to recreate 1 segment of a VetArt interview each month starting in July.
For July 2024, the first VetArt interview is with
U.S. Navy Veteran and multi-media artist, Phyllis Thomas Miller.
For August, we are featuring Tonya Savice, a U.S. Air Force Veteran and the Director of Veterans Advocacy for VetArt, the Veterans Art Project,
in a spoken word performance about the Starfish Mentality.
AMVETS CA Women Veteran Leaders
I am a lifetime member of AMVETS Post 34 in San Francisco. This year, I have created 3 AMVETS CA videos.
On June 9, I was in San Francisco and created an interview with
AMVETS Post 34 Commander Helen Wong. As of July 2024, she is also the AMVETS CA State Commander and we have been friends since 1993.
This interview was filmed on June 5 at the Veterans War Memorial Building in San Francisco and on June 28, 2024, Helen became the AMVETS CA State Commander.
She has been actively involved in many Veteran Service Organizations in San Francisco and San Mateo Counties for many years.
such as the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans and the Vietnam Veterans of America. She lives her life in service to other Veterans.
Helen speaks about the importance of being an AMVETS member and why it is a great way to get involved in the Veteran Community and make a difference for others. She encourages all U.S. military veterans to join and get involved in AMVETS, a Veteran Service Organization.
This interview was filmed on June 2024 in San Francisco at the Veterans War Memorial Building.
Here is a video about the AMVETS One and the Silent Epidemic.
This interview is with Jo Keller and she is part of the AMVETS One Team and is the Chairwoman of AMVETS CA Suicide Prevention.
She tells her personal story and why she became involved with AMVETS Dept. of California. She is a retired U.S. Air Force Master Chief and the State Commander of the Military Order of the Purple Heart.
VetArt interviews at the Bonita Museum
VHVtv filmed interviews at the VetArt Exhibition on Opening Day at the Bonita Museum in SoCal on Saturday, March 9.
VETART Encourages Community Through Art Making: A Powerful Defense Against Isolation and Veteran Suicide.
These are interviews with Veterans who are creating Art to heal.
The first interview is with Christina Kimber, U.S. Army Veteran.
Here is an interview with Anthony A. LoBue, U.S. Army Veteran.
Another Veteran Artist we interviewed is U.S. Marine Corps Jesse “Chewy” Fuentes.
Ivan Sam is the VetArt Cultural Ambassador and offers Medicine bags, bead and leather work shops to Veterans
at the Chula Vista Vet Center.
Here is a brief tour of the VetArt Exhibition at the Bonita Museum in SoCal.
VetArt interview with Jay Van Schelt of The Harmonetiks Project. It is all about the Easy Breath technique.
“VETART encourages community through art making. This process is the best defense against isolation and Veteran Suicide.
Artists who are showcasing their work at this exhibit are mostly Veterans, but Military service affects an entire ecosystem of individuals,
from Veterans to caretakers, families, significant others, and active duty members from many branches of this ecosystem.
Therefore, the Artworks shown in this exhibit will include works from members from many branches of this ecosystem.
VETART is proud of the of the Artists who have put in hours of work to developing their craft, engaging with our community and advocating for themselves throughout the process. These qualities are reflecting in the work you will see in this exhibit.” https://www.vetart.org
The VetArt studio, from combat to canvas
During December 2023, we volunteered to film a few events and the first one was at the VetArt studio in Vista on Friday,
Dec. 8 and the second event was a VetArt exhibit at the American Legion Post 731 in Linda Vista, CA.
VHVtv presents interviews with U.S. Military Veterans about creating Art.
From combat to canvas: U.S. Military Veterans Creating Art
VetArt Studio Interview with Tonya Savice, U.S. Air Force Veteran and Multi-Media Artist.
Here is a video about a dual military couple, U.S. Army Veterans Rocio and Julio Villeuva. Rocio was filmed at the VetArt studio and
Julio and Rocio were filmed at the American Legion Post 731 in Linda Vista, Ca.
The VetArt Ceramics Instructor is U.S. Navy Veteran, Reggie Green and was filmed an interview with him at the American Legion Post 731 in Linda Vista, CA.
Sheryl Shaffer, a WAC Veteran, interviews Women’s Army Corps Veteran, Sandy Woodhouse at the American Legion Post 731 in Linda Vista, CA.
Sandy talks about her involvement with the American Legion and how she likes to work as a member of a team and participate with the Veteran Community.
Rose Gritton is the spouse/widow of Vietnam Veteran William Gritton. She has been involved with VetArt since 2018 and tells us how her involvement and participation has changed the quality of her life.
Filmed on Saturday, December 17, 2023 at the American Legion Post 731 in Linda Vista, CA.
VetArt Teaches Veterans To Create
This is an introduction to the VetArt studio in Vista, Ca. Veterans who discovered they are artists, with the help and encouragement of VetArt,
explain how their lives have changed for the better when discovering they have latent artistic abilities. They discuss traditional and non-traditional forms of therapy.
Featured in this discussion are Steven Macks Dilley, Darron Devillez, Mateo Montell, Tonya Savice, Sandy Dee, Maria Ysela Galvin and Danielle L. Fetter, PhD.
Filmed at the VetArt studio in Vista, Ca on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023.
“We Are The Qualitative Data” is an open and frank discussion of the Arts within the Veteran Community.
Included in the conversation are Darron Devillez, Sandy Dee, Danielle Fettes, PhD and Assistant Professor at UC San Diego Dept. of Psychiatry, Tonya Savice, Reggie Green, Sheryl Shaffer and
Steve Macks Dilley, Executive Director of VetArt. Filmed at the VetArt studio in Vista, Ca on December 8, 2023.
Ivan Sam, is a U.S. Navy Veteran and the VetArt Cultural Ambassador. Filmed at the VetArt studio.
U.S. Army Veteran, Sandy Dee tells her story and how creating Art is helping her. Filmed at the Vet Art studio.
More about Sheryl Alexa Shaffer
Sheryl Alexa Shaffer created Veterans Helping Veterans TV in 1996 as an out reach to veterans in San Mateo County while she was working as an EDD Local Veterans Employment Representative, L.V.E.R. and during this time, it was like being an apprentice as she learned community television production at the local community Mid Peninsula Media Center television studio in Palo Alto, CA.
During the time she was an EDD Job Service VetRep, the local veteran groups in San Mateo County sponsored the costs of producing VHVtv at the MidPen Media Center Studio in Palo Alto, CA. She retired from the E.D.D. in 2004 with 25 years of Civil Service. She attended college on the G.I. Bill and graduated from San Francisco State University, SFSU, 1974 with a BA degree in Theatre Arts.
In 1997, she graduated with a second BA degree from California State University Northridge, CSUN, majoring in Radio, TV and Film.
Sheryl Alexa Shaffer served in the Women’s Army Corps from 1968 to 1971. She is a retired CA Employment Development Department Job Service VetRep.
All the VetArt Pop-Up Art Cafe Videos and Documentaries:
Our first VetArt documentary is “The Storytellers of VetArt”
Sheryl Shaffer served in the Women's Army Corps from 1968 to 1971. She is retired from the CA Employment Development Department as a VetRep.
She produces Veterans Helping Veterans TV at the MidPen Media Center in Palo Alto, CA. She completed the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Veterans Make Movies program and now does virtual interviews using video conferencing, i movie and i phone . Since October 2022, Sheryl travels with VetArt as a Documentarian and does interviews with Veteran Artists and uses her new iPhone 15 Pro to film.
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