I cannot believe it is almost graduation…it’s just around the corner! May 17th! These past 2 years have been an incredibly intense and often surreal journey. I have been accompanied on this adventure by my fellow art therapy classmates, who have enriched this experience beyond belief. My two internships at Housing Works, and now at Mount Sinai have been challenging...
This should be wonderful! Here’s the info…Date: Saturday, April 10Time: 9AM – 5PMLocation:Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Campus200 Willoughby AvenueBrooklyn, NY 11205pratt.edu Environmental Art Therapy: Creating with and within public spaces to deepen individual therapeutic experience and allow for multi-dimensional human and environmental therapeutic outcomes. Participants will learn an overview of theory and application of Environmental Art Therapy. A group interactive model...
On Friday April 2nd, 2010 the Pratt Creative Arts Therapy Department is proud to present “Vital Signs.” The show is inspired by our experiences as art and dance therapists, and the creative ways that we find for self-care and nurturing in this challenging and exciting field. Please come by and celebrate with us at our opening! Location: Pratt Manhattan –...
Yesterday I found out that my patient had died. I had been working with him at the hospital since this summer and we had developed a very special relationship… He was an incredible 9 year old, who filled the room with energy, laughter, and new perspectives. I still cannot believe he is gone. It happened so suddenly and it still...
Here are a few new sketches, done during my vacation in the Dominican Republic. This wasn’t an adventure vacation – it was an R&R vacation! So instead of sketching what was around me, I went inwards for imagery. Lately a lot of the images have been of women in various styles…
Here are 4 new small paintings that I created today:)
And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. “Little Gidding” T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets I am almost finished with my altered book. This book is the central piece of my thesis for graduate school, and it explores my literal and metaphorical search for my birth mother....