AATA Blog
Join the Fall 2026 Mentor Match Cohort
July 23, 2026We are excited to announce the launch of our third Mentor Match Cohort! Mentor Match is a simple, structured way to build real connections in our field. Mentors get a chance to strengthen leadership and support the next generation. Mentees get guidance,...
AATA Undergraduate Education Committee Summer 2026 Updates
Welcome to the 2026 Summer Edition of the Undergraduate Art Therapy Educators Newsletter.
Featured Member: Liz Hlavek, AATA2026 Conference Chair
“I think as our profession rises, we need to shed the fear of being ‘othered’ or disrespected, and focus instead on advocating and educating those who are unfamiliar with our work.” – Liz Hlavek, AATA2026 Conference Chair
The Studio as Witness: Queer Art Therapy, Community, and Care
June 25, 2026 In this thoughtful conversation, Zachary D. Van Den Berg, MA, ATR-BC, LPC (they/he), a queer and genderqueer art therapist, reflects on the studio as a place of witness, queer lineage, imagination, and ethical care. Moving between personal...
Tender Tit: Speaking from a Soft Place this Pride Month
“The weight right now is real, and it is not evenly held. Trans folks. Queer people of color. Elders who recognize this moment in their bodies and who have lived through earlier versions of this fear, who are carrying the recognition of it now. Young people learning to grieve collectively without the maps their elders drew. I do not look away from where the heaviness gathers.” — Kachina Mooney, art therapist
Supervision Across the Professional Lifespan: Learning, Growing, and Contributing
By AATA Board Member Dr. Kathryn Snyder
Being the moderator for the AATA 2026 three-part Supervision Series offered me a lot to sit with. Across each workshop, I kept returning to one through line: supervision is not a phase we pass through on the way to becoming a clinician. It is a practice that grows with us.
Featured Member: Elizabeth Fotopoulos
“Art is inherent to who we are as humans. Art is in everything that we do. Its in how we decorate our spaces and our self and has been apart of us since the beginning of humankind which makes art therapy the most effective form of counseling.”
Passing the Torch: A Conversation with Irene Rosner David on Medical Art Therapy and the Scholarship That Carries Her Legacy Foward
“I wanted to convey the ongoing and significant existence of art therapy in the medical milieu, recognize that expansion, and inspire the next generation”
— Irene Rosner David,
Featured Member: Dr. Kathryn Snyder
“I am a proud member of the Board of Directors, where I feel I can support the sustainability of our organization while helping to welcome and mentor a new generation of art therapists.”
Featured Member: Sherry Warner
“People of all ages can participate in Art Therapy. Art Therapy can be helpful for verbally resistance clients, it can help us express through the use of metaphor and symbolism, and build healthy connections to self and others through curiosity and play.”