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Bird Sculpture
by 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...
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Art Therapy Techniques: Mask Making – The Inner Critic
Brittany, Allegra, and Noelle wearing their Inner Critics by Amy Hautman Bates It felt more like a kid’s birthday party than a techniques class with glitter, glue and feathers...
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Creative Shoes, Another Journey
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. ...
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Creating Characters
I love gluing things together to create beings. Broken toys, bits of jewelry, feathers, recycling, stones, pistachio shells.. the list of gluable-together items is infinitely long! Crone Calm Observance and...
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Art-Based Genograms: Ancestors Visible
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...
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Exploring Different States of Being: Self-Portraits
I worked from pictures I took of myself, and then used pastels and ink to explore these feeling states. Working large accentuated these places, so that I could...
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Shadow Boxes
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...
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Making Crayons
I have been inspired by all of the crayon melting art that Laura Lansrud-Lopez has been posting on NMATA's Facebook page. I have a bunch of broken crayons that I...
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The Arts
Painting by Laura Lansrud-Lopez, M.S., M.A., LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC, ATCS, ACS Words by Deborah John, Ph.D., ATR-BC, LPAT I wrote this poem to explain the way that I experience...
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Mud: A Poem of Counsciousness by Allegra Borghese
MUD On my elbows and knees, trudging through thick mud. Cut up, alone, and enveloped in darkness, yet there is something delicious about the taste of this earth. I chew...
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Self Betrayal II
by Rush Cole ...blackness. Trapped. Overwhelmed. No way out. Tired, so tired. Sudden energy from the surge of self-hatred that roared through me. “Get it over with, you...
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Sara Martin’s Virtual Art Show
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...
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Group Mandala
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...
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Scene Change: Shadow Boxes
This is another assignment for my History of Art Therapy: Current Trends class. Students were asked to bring in to class a medium sized box, recycled materials,...
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Digital Art: Self Piece
In my section of Current Trends in Art Therapy, one of the first homework assignments was to create a self-piece collage with Polyvore.com. Here are some of the examples of...
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Southwestern’s Online Art Gallery
Hello There! Please enjoy the art, and words about the art processes that are posted here. ~*~ The blog is intended to inspire the creator within in us...