Will there Be Poppies, Daisies and Apples When I Grow Up?

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 Garlock, MS, ATR-BC, ATCS.  Reserve your space by emailing Adrienne Credle at artx@email.gwu.edu.  Co-sponsored by the GW Art Therapy Program and Art & Remembrance.  Arpilleras from the collection of Roberta Bacic.

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 . . .

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

Under the Clothesline: Looking Through the Window of Tolerance by faculty member, Tally Tripp

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 the book by Flora Rheta Schreiber.   The exhibit can be seen M-F, from 9am-8pm or on Saturday from 9am-4pm.  (On Saturday, call first to make sure building is open: (703) 299-0297.

Join us for a reception in conjunction with the AATA Annual Conference.
We look forward to welcoming you back to GW for a celebration which will include the opening of the Sybil Exhibit and faculty Art in Response to Trauma displayed in the Art Therapy Gallery, a tour of the new Art Therapy Center and a chance to reconnect.

GW Art Therapy Program 40th Anniversary Celebration
Friday, July 8 | 6 – 8 p.m.
The George Washington University, Art Therapy Center
413 John Carlyle Street
Alexandria, VA 22314

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