By Ellen Speert, ATR-BC, REAT | October 27, 2016 | About Art Therapy BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG The Nez Pierce have a saying: “Heal yourself and heal Mother Earth and all our relations.” It is widely agreed that art therapy is as old as the earliest human expression. We...
By Kat Michel | September 7, 2016 | Trauma | Events | BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG From September 6-8, 2016, Bellevue Hospital in New York City will be hosting the exhibit “Transformations in Time,” artwork created in response to 9/11 and in observance of its 15th...
By Lauren Leone, ATR-BC, LMHC; Michaela Kirby, PsyD, ATR-BC, LMHC; and Nancy Lautenbach, MA | June 29, 2016 | Education | Events BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG “Felt and yarn, things I only associated with being soft and warm, are now materials that I see as strong,...
By Sarah Margaret Wade, LPC, ATR, NCC | April 27, 2016 | About Art Therapy | Community | #WeAreArtTherapists BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG I recently attended a celebratory gala and art show at the University of Alabama to honor five years of Art to Life, a program of art...
By Jill E. Scheibler, PhD, ATR-BC, LCPAT | April 2, 2016 | #WeAreArtTherapists BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG Since the early 1970s, April has been recognized as Autism Awareness Month and, more recently, it has been additionally or alternatively celebrated as Autism...
By Dianne Tennyson Vincent, MAT, ATR-BC | March 2, 2016 | #WeAreArtTherapists | Trauma BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG June 17, 2015 was a peaceful evening in downtown Charleston, SC. A regular Wednesday night prayer meeting service was taking place in the historic Emanuel AME...