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Exhibit March 6-April 6, 2012, 413 John Carlyle Ave., 2nd Floor; Hours M-F 9am-8pm Workshop Lecture and art making experiential Saturday, March 31, 2012, 2-5pm $25.oo materials fee; $10.00 for students. CEUs available. Co-facilitators: Rachel Cohen, PhD and Lisa Raye … Continue reading
This interactive workshop offering two continuation credits will afford participants unique access to art as therapy through the eyes of an American and Ugandan practitioner in war-affected northern Uganda. Andrew E. Briggs and Peter Odoch will frame the macro to micro socio-economic, health, and cultural factors that define the pursuit of health in this region. The multi-faceted Freedom in Creation approach utilizes art as therapy to meet psychological, educational and economic needs. With such insight, art therapists will be better prepared for cross culture practice.
Friday, January 20, 2012 9am-5pm Cost: $20 for Professionals
Rachel Albert, Maricel Ocasio and Donna Betts
During the weekend of October 1-2, 2011, the Puerto Rico Department of Education sponsored a conference for special education public school personnel at the Sheraton hotel in San Juan. On Saturday, GW professor Donna Betts, PhD, ATR-BC, presented “The use of Art Activities and Strategies with Students on the Autism Spectrum.” On Sunday, GW adjunct professor Rachel Albert presented “Strategies to Manage Autism Spectrum Disorders in a School Setting.” The conference was organized by GW Art Therapy alumna Maricel Ocasio. We were delighted to promote art therapy in this context to an enthusiastic audience of 500 social workers, psychologists, teachers, and other personnel!
This summer GW Art Therapy traveled to South Africa for the Social & Cultural Diversity course. The trip was three weeks and we visited Cape Town, Johannesburg, and then worked for two weeks in Winterveld, a tiny town in the north, at a youth center, Bokamoso, and with children in a day care center. The trip then ended with a weekend safari in Pilanesburg. The landscape is breathtaking, the people are some of the friendliest I have ever met, and the art therapy was warmly welcomed by everyone.
Quote from student: “After this trip, I am much more self-aware! Of both my biases and my own cultural identity. I have worked with clients from a culture different than my own and know better how to be adaptable and flexible. I made amazing connections within the community that have guided my understanding of being a culturally competent therapist.” 
Cape of Good Hope, the most South-Western point of the African continent–
it is winter in South Africa, so it was chilly!
Working with the children in the Day Care Center, which was also our home for two weeks.
Working with the youth at the center. Every day began with prayer, singing, and dancing–and, yes, we all had to dance!
The Safari was amazing for all of us! We saw every animal you can imagine–elephants, giraffe, zebra, lions, a leopard, wildebeests, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, warthogs . . .
To see lots of pictures, taken by GW alumna Lindsey Vance, of the AATA conference and the GW Alumni party, click here!
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Many thanks to all of you who were able to attend the Art Therapy Program’s anniversary party on July 8, 2011. The celebration was not only for 40 years of art therapy training; it was truly a celebration of the incredible work you all do to make this a better world. We are fortunate to be affiliated with such strong, amazing and creative art therapists. Let’s continue to take every opportunity to re-connect, and stay connected–to each other and to the program.
All photos by Chris Garlock
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The current exhibit at the GW Art Therapy Program gallery includes work by art therapy faculty and a collection of artwork by Shirley Mason, also known as “Sybil.” Most people know of Sybil through the movie staring Sally Field, or … Continue reading
