By Bani Malhotra, Susan Ainlay Anand, and Marie Deschamps We are thrilled to extend a personal invitation to all AATA members to join our upcoming virtual International Shared Interest Group (ISIG) Meetings. Register here. ISIG meetings serve as an invaluable...
October 16, 2023 | By Fenghua Jin, MA The museum visit, paired with art-making, provides participants with an elevation of their museum experience, especially those who report rarely making or creating art themselves. What I have observed through my project on...
By Michael Franklin, PhD, ATR-BC Naropa University art therapy professor Michael Franklin, program graduates Jordan Yates and Zoe Schlanger, MA Art Therapy Candidate Kelsey Geiger, and Moxie Bread Company volunteers, together coordinated our first Open-Air Clay Art...
September 24, 2020 Art therapy is a mental health profession that enriches the lives of individuals, families, and communities through active art-making, creative process, applied psychological theory, and human experience within a psychotherapeutic...
September 24, 2020 | By Jenelle Hallaert, MS, MA, P-LMHP When I flew home to the Midwest for spring break in March 2020, I didn’t expect that flight to end up being a one way ticket. Little did I know I was going to spend the next four months in virtual...
August 24, 2020 Art therapists, as mental health professionals, are frontline “essential workers” during the Coronavirus pandemic, according to the American Art Therapy Association’s online Coronavirus pandemic survey. Half (53.1%) of art therapists reported...
