art & therapy collage

A personal journal during the last year of my art therapy master's program.

I cannot believe how fast this year is flying by!

I finally registered for the AATA Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Bummer about flying but yippee about going to my first professional conference in November.

I just recently finished up my midterms- I am really tired! I was inspired though to write a paper on art therapy supervision and was up until 4am.

I will be working on putting our GWU Graduate Art Therapy Program Newsletter, Drawn From Building L, online sometime in November. (I am a co-editor this year)

12:41 AM [ Link ]

Although it is officially past the one month mark, here is something touching on the topic of the events that occured a month ago and children's reactions:

A child's card.

A Washington Post article on October 4th in the Fairfax Extra section focuses on children's reactions (pay per view after Oct. 18) to the events of September 11. The hard copy includes several art images and poems by children to express their feelings about the events.

My thoughts and prayers to those who have lost so much.

12:47 AM [ Link ]

I just had a guest speaker named Carol Cox come to one of my classes to speak about artwork created by people diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID, symptoms), formerly called multiple personality disorder. Carol has also done some workshops on mandalas- art in the circular form. (Here are some personal sites that describe the mandala:

Clare Goodwin's page

Barry Stevens' page

Ray Rasmussen's page)

Carol has been doing some fabulous research in the art therapy field and I was really excited to have had the opportunity to speak to her.

The nifty thing is that she was recently published in the Washington Post in an article on the changing season called "Fall Curriculum". Pay close attention to the color theory section!

1:16 AM [ Link ]

Creative artists of any type (painters, writers, musicians, actors, etc.) speak of art therapy even when they may not realize there is an entire field of study devoted to the healing power of the arts. Here is a September 28th Washington Post article on Judy Collins, a musician who opens the article with some music to my ears.

12:32 AM [ Link ]