by Amy Hautman Bates
We talk a lot about language at SWC. What are you saying? What do you really mean? This careful attention to words is part of the school鈥檚 mission of 鈥淭ransforming Consciousness Through Education.鈥 And in a way, transforming education through consciousness.
A huge step in gaining self-awareness is hearing what is…
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by Debbie Schroder
The front door was already open and as I opened the sliding glass door to my patio, a fierce gust of wind blew through my house, lifting an听antique plate and a figurine right off of the shelf they were on. They crashed to the floor in jagged pieces as I quickly…
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听by Debbie Schroder
As it got close to 6:00 on Monday evening I could feel my eagerness to begin painting. Every Monday evening the in-state art therapy interns and I engaged in amazing relationships with our canvases. We painted for an hour, then shared our work and talked for the rest of…
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by听Lisa Marie Paradis
Where do you hail from?
You and yours snug tightly
In between the dream
Awaken to five year old father's soul inhabited by butcher's
Chicken floating gently across
the room- enter the
back of the neck- boulders
upon the fleeing road-where
do you hail from?
barbed wire divisions in size-fait-memory-Is the
…
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1998 Grad, Gretchen Wachs, M.A., LPCC
Having worked as a visual artist for most of my life puts me in a unique position as a creative psychotherapist, as I am no stranger to the deep psychological work that goes hand in hand with true creative investigation. This works in reverse as well, and I truly…
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1996 Grad, Susan Boyes
I live and work in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where I have a part-time position as an art therapist for traumatic brain injured adults in a rehabilitation center. I also have a thriving private practice, providing art therapy to TBI clients and others in their own homes, or in my office. I…
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1990 Grad, Michele 鈥淎ma Wehali鈥 Rozbitsky has developed a domestic violence program for the Eight Northern Pueblos called 鈥楶eace Keepers鈥, worked as a crisis counselor, art therapist and in outpatient mental health services at St. Vincent鈥檚 Hospital, and in private practice. In the last six years she has become a Shamanic practitioner and has written…
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1985 Graduate, Rick Cotroneo
I started a part-time practice in classical homeopathy. My background in Education made me a candidate to serve as a commissioner on the Accreditation Commission for Homeopathic Education in North America (ACHENA). Just as 99福利视频 has grown over the years through the process of accreditation, so now I am working…
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My 2013 section of Current Trends in Art Therapy's Journey Shoes! Check out the directional video on Vimeo, which was used in Art Therapy Alliance's Six Degrees of Creativity 2.
The students seemed to enjoy the process of recreating the shoes that they brought in to class. Some brought old shoes, uncomfortable shoes, shoes with…
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by Debbie Schroder
The idea seems simple, initially. When making a Genogram (kind of a family tree) use an image instead of a square or circle (how Genograms are usually done).听
Each week in my Family Art Therapy course, one or two students shared their art-based Genograms. Never doubting our…
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Shadow Boxes created in my section of Current Trends in Art Therapy, Winter 2013.
After exploring a population that students have a form of resistance to working with (from lack of information to disinterest, to strong opposition) through a research and reflection paper, they were asked to look at how their resistance is a part…
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听by Debbie Schroder
A few months ago I wrote about the importance of words. Today I鈥檓 having trouble finding the right ones to describe my experience in supervision this quarter. Not wanting to add to the old myth that art therapists don鈥檛 talk, I鈥檒l try to summon some words to express what I鈥檓 very aware…
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by Magdalena Karlick
I delved into this rag rug project at the beginning of the summer, wanting to recycle old, ill-fitting, and stained clothing to make a rug for my son鈥檚 new room. I imagined a place where he could sit comfortably while looking at his books or playing with his toy animals.
Here are…
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Materials: Markers, Colored Paper, Scissors, and Glue
These days, most presents for family and friends are family creative efforts; Mama and Judah (2 1/2 years old) taking lead. My folks and my brother are all Scorpios, with their birthdays within two weeks of each other. This year we made a collage with spontaneous scribbles, hand…
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by Amy Hautman Bates
Artist's Block "Who is an artist when she is not making art?"
(This is a doodle, not a painting.)
听In September, my partner and I packed everything we owned to move from the Southeast to the Southwest. It was very cathartic to consider everything we had and decide if and why…
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by Deb Schroder听
On a beautiful October Saturday, eight of us who teach in the Art Therapy Program gathered to share ideas, concerns and breakfast. I feel like I just want to say out loud that we have amazing, passionate teachers here!
I鈥檓 also going to say something else out loud in order to hold…
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Capstone Project: Artist Statement
Suzanne Otter, Fall 2012
Making art as a way to work through complex personal issues was helpful to me during the many years I worked as an organizational development consultant. I continued this 鈥渟elf-art therapy鈥 during my formal study of art therapy and counseling at 99福利视频. The image-making and journaling…
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听by Rush Cole
听
听 听 听...blackness.听听Trapped.听听Overwhelmed.听听No way out.听听Tired, so tired.听听Sudden energy from the surge of self-hatred that roared through me.
听 听 听 听 鈥淕et it over with, you don鈥檛 deserve to live!鈥澨齌he blade against my wrist.听
听 听 听The Voice, coming from a part of me I didn鈥檛 know existed. 鈥淧ut down the…
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by Deb Schroder
As we prepare for the beginning of a new academic year, I take inventory of our art supplies and start compiling lists of what needs to be ordered. From teaching and making art in the large art therapy classroom I became aware this summer, of the scarcity of the color black. Black…
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An Art-Based Ritual
by Deb Schroder
Artwork created by Magdalena Karlick
A summer ritual in the art therapy program has begun again. We鈥檝e started our annual 鈥淧ortfolio Review鈥 process which is a part of the transition for first year students who are ready to begin second year in the fall.
Deborah John and I will…
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Sara Martin
Artist Statement
One of the most important things I will take from my education and training in becoming an art therapist is that I can now confidently call myself an artist.听 I got my undergraduate degree in art, I have been making art ever since I can remember, but calling myself an…
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Termination Phase
~Group Mandala~
Betsy Sohmer & Camille Grec
Presentation Project for Art Therapy Techniques, teacher: Seren Morris
Intention:
To create a space and activity for the group to experience visual cohesion of the things we鈥檝e learned in class while maintaining perspective of each member鈥檚 distinctive contributions.
Materials:
Two Large pieces of butcher paper
Various…
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I just spent about an hour and a half playing a board game. At work, in my office. Believe me, I know I have a great job.
One of our students, Stephanie Murphy, is getting ready to graduate and brought her Capstone Project over. Yes, that鈥檚 the board game! It鈥檚 a visually dynamic, thought-provoking and…
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听Hello There!听
Please enjoy the art, and words about the art processes that are posted here.
听~*~
The blog is intended to听inspire the creator within in us all听by both seeing various mediums used, as well as reading how the pieces have been created and what they mean to the artist. We will…
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