Art on the Avenue is a multi-cultural arts festival celebrating our community's diversity through the arts in the Potomac West area in Alexandria, Virginia. Over 300 vendors and 40,000 visitors attend. Located about 2 miles (Del Ray neighborhood) from the AT program.
http://www.artontheavenue.org/
See you there!
Tally
Tally Tripp MA, MSW, LICSW, ATR-BC
Director, Art Therapy Center
The George Washington University
Graduate Art Therapy Program
(mailing address)
1925 Ballenger Ave., Suite 250
Alexandria, VA 22314
(walk-in address)
413 John Carlyle St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
703 299 4173 (GW office)
Senin, 28 September 2009
Sabtu, 26 September 2009
DC Jail's Young Poets' Annual Poetry Reading October 6!
Please join us for a special evening as we present
Hear Us Out! 2009
The 6th Annual Free Minds Poetry Reading of DC Jail's Young Poets
Poems will be performed by Free Minds members who are back home in the community.
Tuesday, October 6 2009 at 7pm
The 6th and I Historic Synagogue
600 I Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
Reception to follow ~ Free to the public!
Call 202-758-0829 for more information.
www.freemindsbookclub.org
Getting There: Metro to Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro Stop on the green/yellow/red lines (Use the 7th and H Street exit). Parking on the street is limited, but is available at several nearby commercial lots.
On Facebook? Join our group and tell us if you can attend.
Download a flyer
Feel free to bring a paperback book to donate to our Jail library.
Introducing young inmates to the transformative power of books and creative writing
Please join us for a special evening as we present
Hear Us Out! 2009
The 6th Annual Free Minds Poetry Reading of DC Jail's Young Poets
Poems will be performed by Free Minds members who are back home in the community.
Tuesday, October 6 2009 at 7pm
The 6th and I Historic Synagogue
600 I Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
Reception to follow ~ Free to the public!
Call 202-758-0829 for more information.
www.freemindsbookclub.org
Getting There: Metro to Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro Stop on the green/yellow/red lines (Use the 7th and H Street exit). Parking on the street is limited, but is available at several nearby commercial lots.
On Facebook? Join our group and tell us if you can attend.
Download a flyer
Feel free to bring a paperback book to donate to our Jail library.
Introducing young inmates to the transformative power of books and creative writing
Grant Opportunity
Below is an announcement from Philanthropy News Digest that may be of
interest:
Posted on September 25, 2009
Deadline: October 30, 2009
American Psychiatric Foundation Offers Grants for High Schools to Implement
Mental Health Educational Model
Established by the American Psychiatric
Foundation, a philanthropic and educational subsidiary of the American
Psychiatric Association , the Typical or Troubled? School
Mental Health Education Grant Program provides funding to implement the
Typical or Troubled? School Mental Health
educational model in communities across the United States. Community
organizations, high schools, and school districts are eligible to receive
funding and training materials to implement the program.
Typical or Troubled? is an educational program designed to help school
personnel (teachers, coaches guidance counselors, etc.) raise their
awareness of mental disorders in teens. The program focuses on promoting the
importance of early recognition and treatment, recognizing the early warning
signs of mental health problems, and encouraging action and appropriate
referral to a mental health professional.
The Typical or Troubled? program includes a compendium of educational
materials. These materials were developed in partnership with local high
school personnel (e.g. teachers, school social workers, school counselors,
parents, mental health professionals, and educators), and reviewed for
medical accuracy. Some materials can be customized for local use to reflect
pertinent community information and cultural competence. The educational
presentation is designed to be presented by teachers, administrators,
counselors, or school social workers in partnership with psychiatrists or
other mental health professionals.
For program implementation at two to four high schools, a grant in the
amount of $1,500 will be awarded; for implementation at five or more high
schools, a grant in the amount of $2,500 will be awarded. Program education
and training materials will be made available for the grant recipient's use.
The application form will be available at the APF Web site in early October
2009.
Contact:
interest:
Posted on September 25, 2009
Deadline: October 30, 2009
American Psychiatric Foundation Offers Grants for High Schools to Implement
Mental Health Educational Model
Established by the American
Foundation, a philanthropic and educational subsidiary of the American
Psychiatric Association
Mental Health Education Grant Program provides funding to implement the
Typical or Troubled? School Mental Health
educational model in communities across the United States. Community
organizations, high schools, and school districts are eligible to receive
funding and training materials to implement the program.
Typical or Troubled? is an educational program designed to help school
personnel (teachers, coaches guidance counselors, etc.) raise their
awareness of mental disorders in teens. The program focuses on promoting the
importance of early recognition and treatment, recognizing the early warning
signs of mental health problems, and encouraging action and appropriate
referral to a mental health professional.
The Typical or Troubled? program includes a compendium of educational
materials. These materials were developed in partnership with local high
school personnel (e.g. teachers, school social workers, school counselors,
parents, mental health professionals, and educators), and reviewed for
medical accuracy. Some materials can be customized for local use to reflect
pertinent community information and cultural competence. The educational
presentation is designed to be presented by teachers, administrators,
counselors, or school social workers in partnership with psychiatrists or
other mental health professionals.
For program implementation at two to four high schools, a grant in the
amount of $1,500 will be awarded; for implementation at five or more high
schools, a grant in the amount of $2,500 will be awarded. Program education
and training materials will be made available for the grant recipient's use.
The application form will be available at the APF Web site in early October
2009.
Contact:
Jumat, 25 September 2009
New local events!
Meet Kathryn Brohl, author of
Working with Traumatized Children, at our
Speed Networking and Author Event!
Kathryn is a licensed marriage and family therapist with more than 35
years of experience as an administrator, published author,
psychotherapist, frontline worker, trainer, and consultant. She's the
author of CWLA best-selling titles, Working with Traumatized Children
and The New Miracle Workers, which she dedicated to child welfare
workers. Kathryn will sign books after she speaks.
Be part of what Entrepreneur.com refers to as "the newest craze to hit
the business world." Speed networking is a fast fun way to expand your
network of peers. You'll meet everyone in the room for just a few
minutes in a structured environment. Make more contacts in just one
night than most folks make in six months!
Head to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, January 26, to lobby for a White
House Conference for Children and Youth. CWLA members are instrumental
in passing legislation that improves children's lives, including the
recent and historic Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing
Adoptions Act. Find out how you can influence Congress.
Short on funds but want to attend the conference? Tap IV-E and
leftover training money. The program is a major source of funding for
training child welfare workers. Check with your state, and let federal
dollars augment your work.
Pick and choose your workshops. More than 120 child and family experts
will report on timely and important topics like:
Foster care and adoption
Advocacy
Cultural competence/disproportionality
Fund development/marketing
Kinship care
Technology
Early childhood education
Workforce development
Leadership
Juvenile justice
Residential care
Mental health
Register now and save! Our early-bird deadline is November 30. Or set
up shop in the exhibit hall. Exhibitors receive a complimentary
registration with each space purchased.
Submit conference testimonials, photos, or video clips to Karen Dunn
at kdunn@cwla.org.
Free: Transgender Cultural Competency Training
Please join us for this upcoming learning event by registering at the
link below. We hope to see you there!
To register, please click the following link or copy and paste into
your web browser:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=7wprorkMb66cEHbUVN86vA_3d_3d
Registration Information:
Event Title:
Transgender Cultural Competency
Date of Training:
Monday, September 28, 2009
1:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Description of Learning Event:
Introduction to Transgender community resources, students will hear a
personal story of a Female to Male transgender and be introduced to
the Harry Benjamin Standard of Care.
Intended Audience:
MHRS service providers
Community stakeholders
Name and Title of Presenter
Iden Campbell McCollum, CEO/ Founder
Ida Mae Campbell Foundation
Location of Training:
64 New York Avenue NE
2nd Floor DOES Conference Room
Washington, DC 20002
Instructional Level
Beginners
___________________________
DC Department of Mental Health Training Institute
Office of Programs, Policy and Planning
64 New York Avenue, NE, 4th Floor
Washington, DC 20002
Office: (202) 671-0343
Fax: (202) 671-2971
Website: www.dmh.dc.gov
Email: dmh.training@dc.gov
Working with Traumatized Children, at our
Speed Networking and Author Event!
Kathryn is a licensed marriage and family therapist with more than 35
years of experience as an administrator, published author,
psychotherapist, frontline worker, trainer, and consultant. She's the
author of CWLA best-selling titles, Working with Traumatized Children
and The New Miracle Workers, which she dedicated to child welfare
workers. Kathryn will sign books after she speaks.
Be part of what Entrepreneur.com refers to as "the newest craze to hit
the business world." Speed networking is a fast fun way to expand your
network of peers. You'll meet everyone in the room for just a few
minutes in a structured environment. Make more contacts in just one
night than most folks make in six months!
Head to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, January 26, to lobby for a White
House Conference for Children and Youth. CWLA members are instrumental
in passing legislation that improves children's lives, including the
recent and historic Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing
Adoptions Act. Find out how you can influence Congress.
Short on funds but want to attend the conference? Tap IV-E and
leftover training money. The program is a major source of funding for
training child welfare workers. Check with your state, and let federal
dollars augment your work.
Pick and choose your workshops. More than 120 child and family experts
will report on timely and important topics like:
Foster care and adoption
Advocacy
Cultural competence/disproportionality
Fund development/marketing
Kinship care
Technology
Early childhood education
Workforce development
Leadership
Juvenile justice
Residential care
Mental health
Register now and save! Our early-bird deadline is November 30. Or set
up shop in the exhibit hall. Exhibitors receive a complimentary
registration with each space purchased.
Submit conference testimonials, photos, or video clips to Karen Dunn
at kdunn@cwla.org.
Free: Transgender Cultural Competency Training
Please join us for this upcoming learning event by registering at the
link below. We hope to see you there!
To register, please click the following link or copy and paste into
your web browser:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=7wprorkMb66cEHbUVN86vA_3d_3d
Registration Information:
Event Title:
Transgender Cultural Competency
Date of Training:
Monday, September 28, 2009
1:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Description of Learning Event:
Introduction to Transgender community resources, students will hear a
personal story of a Female to Male transgender and be introduced to
the Harry Benjamin Standard of Care.
Intended Audience:
MHRS service providers
Community stakeholders
Name and Title of Presenter
Iden Campbell McCollum, CEO/ Founder
Ida Mae Campbell Foundation
Location of Training:
64 New York Avenue NE
2nd Floor DOES Conference Room
Washington, DC 20002
Instructional Level
Beginners
___________________________
DC Department of Mental Health Training Institute
Office of Programs, Policy and Planning
64 New York Avenue, NE, 4th Floor
Washington, DC 20002
Office: (202) 671-0343
Fax: (202) 671-2971
Website: www.dmh.dc.gov
Email: dmh.training@dc.gov
Kamis, 24 September 2009
CALL FOR PRESENTATION PROPOSALS
The 9th Annual Spring Art Therapy Symposium at Mount Mary College,
Milwaukee, WI, tentatively titled,
BORDER CROSSINGS: Art Therapy in the World, will be held Friday, April
16th, 2010.
The symposium will feature a keynote presentation by Dr. Lynn Kapitan,
ATR-BC and papers and workshops by regional art therapists.
The general focus of the symposium this year will be on international applications of art therapy practice. Presentation proposals on this theme, and other areas of focus are welcome. If you are interested in participating as a presenter at the
symposium, please submit presentation proposals by Oct. 30th, via email to Dr. Bruce L. Moon at moonb@mtmary.edu
Include the following: Title, a 50 word description, and 3 objectives. Indicate that the presentation will be a paper, workshop, or panel, and if there are restrictions on the number of participants.
We look forward to your participation in this annual gathering of art therapists.
The 9th Annual Spring Art Therapy Symposium at Mount Mary College,
Milwaukee, WI, tentatively titled,
BORDER CROSSINGS: Art Therapy in the World, will be held Friday, April
16th, 2010.
The symposium will feature a keynote presentation by Dr. Lynn Kapitan,
ATR-BC and papers and workshops by regional art therapists.
The general focus of the symposium this year will be on international applications of art therapy practice. Presentation proposals on this theme, and other areas of focus are welcome. If you are interested in participating as a presenter at the
symposium, please submit presentation proposals by Oct. 30th, via email to Dr. Bruce L. Moon at moonb@mtmary.edu
Include the following: Title, a 50 word description, and 3 objectives. Indicate that the presentation will be a paper, workshop, or panel, and if there are restrictions on the number of participants.
We look forward to your participation in this annual gathering of art therapists.
Rabu, 23 September 2009
Mandala Training
YOU ARE INVITED TO
THE LIFE CYCLE: KELLOGG ADVANCED COURSE IN MANDALA ASSESSMENT
(3-day course with a certificate of completion)
DATE: November 6-8,2009 Friday – Sunday 9:00-5pm
PLACE: Round Oaks Creative Center
1443 Glenside Green, Charlottesville, VA 22901
TUITION: $365 includes a course notebook.($75 non-refundable deposit.)
CEU’S are available for an additional fee
INSTRUCTORS:
Phyllis Frame, M.A., ATR, is a credentialed professional member of the American Art Therapy Association. She is a founding board member of the Association of Teachers of Mandala Assessment, Inc. (no longer active), and studied and consulted with the Joan Kellogg for many years. Phyllis has a private art therapy practice in Charlottesville, VA and is the Director of the Round Oaks Creative Center, offering expressive therapies workshops and individual art therapy and sand tray sessions. She has given talks and workshops on art therapy, the mandala, and sand tray throughout the United States and in England, and has published articles on mandala, art therapy and sand tray in professional journals.
Carole McNamee, PHD, LMFT is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and an associate member of the American Art Therapy Association. She is founder and director of Willowbank Creative Center in Blacksburg, VA where she maintains a private practice and teaches creative arts. In addition, she is an Affiliate Research Professor in Human Development and Director of the Arts in Healthcare Project at Virginia Tech. She has published and presented nationally on the therapeutic uses of the creative arts. She has been engaged in research on the use of mandalas with both individuals and couples since 2004.
DESCRIPTION: This is an incredibly interesting and timely course describing and working with the concept of the LIFE CYCLE, reflected in the stages of the Great Round Of the Mandala, developed by visionary art therapist, Joan Kellogg.
It will be taught by two of Kellogg’s students and teachers
The mandala is a circular drawing, well known by Jungians as an indicator of internal processes. Jung referred to it as a “cryptogram (coded message) concerning the state of the self.” This mandala course includes concepts from psychosocial, physiological, and spiritual perspectives as they relate to our understanding of the meaning of colors and images found in mandala drawings.
Participants will be introduced to the mandala drawing and learn how to use it as a diagnostic and healing tool in work with others and for themselves. This course will include the historical background on the mandala form as seen in nature, art, myth, architecture, religion and ritual. The format will include lecture, illustrative slides, film and experiential activities including mandala art and poetry writing. It is based on Kellogg’s theory of the 13 Archetypal Stages in the Great Round of the Mandala, a comprehensive model for the development of human consciousness that fits into all cycles. Kellogg incorporated states of consciousness research with Jungian theory and cross-cultural studies, and theorized an organized system based on form, color, and symbols for understanding mandala drawings. This developmental model includes issues around birth, life, death, and rebirth and provides a map of human consciousness and evolution.
This training is for therapists, especially art or expressive therapists, or others in the fields of mental health, pastoral or spiritual counseling, or those interested in knowing more about this subject for their own growth and healing. It could be a refresher course for those who
who have taken earlier MARI or mandala courses and wish to go deeper into this material.
Please send a non-refundable deposit of $75 to Phyllis Frame, 1443 Glenside Green., Charlottesville, VA 22901. Upon receipt of the deposit, a confirmation letter will be sent with lodging information and directions to the center. For further information, please call Phyllis at 434-973-7534 or email: pframe79@aol.com .
Please include this registration form with your deposit money.
REGISTRATION: MANDALA ASSESSMENT COURSE November 2009
NAME____________________________________________________________PHONE______
ADDRESS____________________________________________________________________
EMAIL_________________________DEPOSIT__________OCCUPATION______________
THE LIFE CYCLE: KELLOGG ADVANCED COURSE IN MANDALA ASSESSMENT
(3-day course with a certificate of completion)
DATE: November 6-8,2009 Friday – Sunday 9:00-5pm
PLACE: Round Oaks Creative Center
1443 Glenside Green, Charlottesville, VA 22901
TUITION: $365 includes a course notebook.($75 non-refundable deposit.)
CEU’S are available for an additional fee
INSTRUCTORS:
Phyllis Frame, M.A., ATR, is a credentialed professional member of the American Art Therapy Association. She is a founding board member of the Association of Teachers of Mandala Assessment, Inc. (no longer active), and studied and consulted with the Joan Kellogg for many years. Phyllis has a private art therapy practice in Charlottesville, VA and is the Director of the Round Oaks Creative Center, offering expressive therapies workshops and individual art therapy and sand tray sessions. She has given talks and workshops on art therapy, the mandala, and sand tray throughout the United States and in England, and has published articles on mandala, art therapy and sand tray in professional journals.
Carole McNamee, PHD, LMFT is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and an associate member of the American Art Therapy Association. She is founder and director of Willowbank Creative Center in Blacksburg, VA where she maintains a private practice and teaches creative arts. In addition, she is an Affiliate Research Professor in Human Development and Director of the Arts in Healthcare Project at Virginia Tech. She has published and presented nationally on the therapeutic uses of the creative arts. She has been engaged in research on the use of mandalas with both individuals and couples since 2004.
DESCRIPTION: This is an incredibly interesting and timely course describing and working with the concept of the LIFE CYCLE, reflected in the stages of the Great Round Of the Mandala, developed by visionary art therapist, Joan Kellogg.
It will be taught by two of Kellogg’s students and teachers
The mandala is a circular drawing, well known by Jungians as an indicator of internal processes. Jung referred to it as a “cryptogram (coded message) concerning the state of the self.” This mandala course includes concepts from psychosocial, physiological, and spiritual perspectives as they relate to our understanding of the meaning of colors and images found in mandala drawings.
Participants will be introduced to the mandala drawing and learn how to use it as a diagnostic and healing tool in work with others and for themselves. This course will include the historical background on the mandala form as seen in nature, art, myth, architecture, religion and ritual. The format will include lecture, illustrative slides, film and experiential activities including mandala art and poetry writing. It is based on Kellogg’s theory of the 13 Archetypal Stages in the Great Round of the Mandala, a comprehensive model for the development of human consciousness that fits into all cycles. Kellogg incorporated states of consciousness research with Jungian theory and cross-cultural studies, and theorized an organized system based on form, color, and symbols for understanding mandala drawings. This developmental model includes issues around birth, life, death, and rebirth and provides a map of human consciousness and evolution.
This training is for therapists, especially art or expressive therapists, or others in the fields of mental health, pastoral or spiritual counseling, or those interested in knowing more about this subject for their own growth and healing. It could be a refresher course for those who
who have taken earlier MARI or mandala courses and wish to go deeper into this material.
Please send a non-refundable deposit of $75 to Phyllis Frame, 1443 Glenside Green., Charlottesville, VA 22901. Upon receipt of the deposit, a confirmation letter will be sent with lodging information and directions to the center. For further information, please call Phyllis at 434-973-7534 or email: pframe79@aol.com .
Please include this registration form with your deposit money.
REGISTRATION: MANDALA ASSESSMENT COURSE November 2009
NAME____________________________________________________________PHONE______
ADDRESS____________________________________________________________________
EMAIL_________________________DEPOSIT__________OCCUPATION______________
Job!
POSITION: ART THERAPIST FOR DC PHOTO NARRATIVE PROJECT
Looking for an art therapist to lead this project, hopefully with interest in photo-documentary and written/oral narrative to work with at risk inner city youth.
Responsibilities:
• Meet twice weekly for two hours per meeting with a group at risk adolescents for 15 weeks. Task is to help students to pause and reflect about their lives, developing a narrative of photos and words that give meaning to their experiences. (Each student is given a digital camera.)
• Computer/Photoshop skills very helpful.
• In addition to weekly meetings, work both with and without students to edit photos and transcribe narratives, culminating in an exhibition of students’ work.
• Weekly supervision with Ben Forman, PhD, clinical psychologist, who has either run or directed this project for the past six years.
Background: One of the difficulties that adolescents in Ward 8 face is that they have no stories except those that are offered to them on the nightly news and in local newspapers and magazines. The images and words are often discouraging. The stories are typically told about them rather than by them. Alternatively, they are offered images of teen life in reality shows like “My Sweet Sixteen” where parents are throwing extravagant affairs for their coming of age children who know no limits. The adolescents in Ward 8 may share similar dreams of prom dates and limousines, of careers, and of love. In this sense, they are like other teenagers their age. At the same they are faced with concerns that the average adolescent does not confront: violence and poverty, unstable families, and racial discrimination. It is an experience of ongoing trauma. It is an experience that is disorganizing and frightening.
Specific Aims: Through this project, participants will have the opportunity to give voice to their stories and find/create coherence out of the chaos that is so much a part of their lives. In so doing, we hope they will feel empowered and that we will be able to reduce the negative effects of trauma– the hopelessness and helplessness, the feelings of isolation, low self-esteem and numbing out that inevitably follow from such trauma. An assumption of this project is that in telling their stories, in creating a coherent narrative that may be either uplifting or disappointing, they will assert the meaningfulness of their lives and feel themselves affirmed. And as much as anything, the real task here is to get these adolescents to pause and become more reflective (thinking and feeling as opposed to numbing or acting out) about their lives and their experience.
Salary: $3,000.
For further information, contact Ben Forman, PhD, Executive Director, Center for Self Discovery DC. bensonforman@gmail.com 301 986 0626
Looking for an art therapist to lead this project, hopefully with interest in photo-documentary and written/oral narrative to work with at risk inner city youth.
Responsibilities:
• Meet twice weekly for two hours per meeting with a group at risk adolescents for 15 weeks. Task is to help students to pause and reflect about their lives, developing a narrative of photos and words that give meaning to their experiences. (Each student is given a digital camera.)
• Computer/Photoshop skills very helpful.
• In addition to weekly meetings, work both with and without students to edit photos and transcribe narratives, culminating in an exhibition of students’ work.
• Weekly supervision with Ben Forman, PhD, clinical psychologist, who has either run or directed this project for the past six years.
Background: One of the difficulties that adolescents in Ward 8 face is that they have no stories except those that are offered to them on the nightly news and in local newspapers and magazines. The images and words are often discouraging. The stories are typically told about them rather than by them. Alternatively, they are offered images of teen life in reality shows like “My Sweet Sixteen” where parents are throwing extravagant affairs for their coming of age children who know no limits. The adolescents in Ward 8 may share similar dreams of prom dates and limousines, of careers, and of love. In this sense, they are like other teenagers their age. At the same they are faced with concerns that the average adolescent does not confront: violence and poverty, unstable families, and racial discrimination. It is an experience of ongoing trauma. It is an experience that is disorganizing and frightening.
Specific Aims: Through this project, participants will have the opportunity to give voice to their stories and find/create coherence out of the chaos that is so much a part of their lives. In so doing, we hope they will feel empowered and that we will be able to reduce the negative effects of trauma– the hopelessness and helplessness, the feelings of isolation, low self-esteem and numbing out that inevitably follow from such trauma. An assumption of this project is that in telling their stories, in creating a coherent narrative that may be either uplifting or disappointing, they will assert the meaningfulness of their lives and feel themselves affirmed. And as much as anything, the real task here is to get these adolescents to pause and become more reflective (thinking and feeling as opposed to numbing or acting out) about their lives and their experience.
Salary: $3,000.
For further information, contact Ben Forman, PhD, Executive Director, Center for Self Discovery DC. bensonforman@gmail.com 301 986 0626
Selasa, 22 September 2009
More local events!
Training and Resources
New! Third Thursday Film Series 7-9 pm
Open to parents, teachers, artists, art therapists, and anyone else interested in art and connections to learning, mental health, personal growth, child development. We are trying something new with our THIRD THURSDAY series this fall and offering FREE film screenings and discussion nights. Our goal is to be a forum for discussion and create a community of practice of interested individuals from a variety of fields. Please send an e mail to RSVP if you would like to attend.
RSVP to info@artatthecenter.org
Thursday, October 15 "Who Does She Think She Is"
This film explores the intersection of creativity and caretaking, whether teaching, parenting, or self-care. "Who Does She Think She Is" examines some of the most pressing issues of our time: parenting and creativity, partnering and independence, economics and art. The film follows five women artists as they navigate the challenges of making work outside the elite art world. Director, Pamela Tanner Boll will be the keynote speaker at the annual American Art Therapy Association conference in November.
We will begin promptly at 7pm in order to allow time for discussion. For more information about the film, visit www.whodoesshethinksheis.net
RSVP to info@artatthecenter.org
Thursday, November 19 Inspiration from Reggio Emilia, Victor D'Amico and the Children's Art Carnival and Dr. George Szekely
This evening will offer several short film clips exploring educational approaches we have found inspiring in our work in the studio. Explore the Reggio approach through the eyes of Bill Moyers' "Creativity" series, view a documentary of the recreation of the Museum of Modern Art Children's Art Carnival at The Art Barge, and reflect on children's creativity through the film-making of author, artist and educator, Dr. George Szekely.
RSVP to info@artatthecenter.org
New! Third Thursday Film Series 7-9 pm
Open to parents, teachers, artists, art therapists, and anyone else interested in art and connections to learning, mental health, personal growth, child development. We are trying something new with our THIRD THURSDAY series this fall and offering FREE film screenings and discussion nights. Our goal is to be a forum for discussion and create a community of practice of interested individuals from a variety of fields. Please send an e mail to RSVP if you would like to attend.
RSVP to info@artatthecenter.org
Thursday, October 15 "Who Does She Think She Is"
This film explores the intersection of creativity and caretaking, whether teaching, parenting, or self-care. "Who Does She Think She Is" examines some of the most pressing issues of our time: parenting and creativity, partnering and independence, economics and art. The film follows five women artists as they navigate the challenges of making work outside the elite art world. Director, Pamela Tanner Boll will be the keynote speaker at the annual American Art Therapy Association conference in November.
We will begin promptly at 7pm in order to allow time for discussion. For more information about the film, visit www.whodoesshethinksheis.net
RSVP to info@artatthecenter.org
Thursday, November 19 Inspiration from Reggio Emilia, Victor D'Amico and the Children's Art Carnival and Dr. George Szekely
This evening will offer several short film clips exploring educational approaches we have found inspiring in our work in the studio. Explore the Reggio approach through the eyes of Bill Moyers' "Creativity" series, view a documentary of the recreation of the Museum of Modern Art Children's Art Carnival at The Art Barge, and reflect on children's creativity through the film-making of author, artist and educator, Dr. George Szekely.
RSVP to info@artatthecenter.org
Out & Equal and Uncovering Bias
*Join us at Out & Equal 2009 Summit* see www.outandequal.org for more! and
Orlando, FL October 7, 2009
**Why Did You Say That? Using Perceptual Identity to Break Through Barriersin the Workplace*
Jean-Marie Navetta, PFLAG National & Leslie Traub,President & CEO of Cook Ross Inc.Are you encountering resistance to LGBT inclusion at work? You may feelfrustrated and hurt, wondering why some people seem so close minded andhomophobic. How did people develop these opinions about LGBTs and how doesthis impact behavior? The answers to these questions can help circumnavigatelabels, open discussions, reveal commonalities and create progress. Learnwhat perceptual identity analysis is, how it reveals our biases andimpulses, and how we can use it to approach creating change in the workplacecompassionately and effectively. *Join us at SHRM Diversity Conference** **www.shrm.orga=>
**San Diego, CA **October 20, 2009 ** **Uncovering Unconscious Bias*[image: Howard]Howard RossChief Learning OfficerCook Ross Inc.Unconscious bias regularly impacts decisions that are made inorganizations. Decisions ranging from who gets hired, to who gets certainchallenging assignments to what strategic directions are chosen based on whois and is not included in conversations leading to those decisions. Thispresentation explores a number of strategies that will help create workplacecultures in which employees can actively "unconceal" perceptions andpatterns that have been hidden. Cook Ross is considered to be the thoughtleader in the practical application of academic research of the unconsciousto organizational diversity efforts.
Orlando, FL October 7, 2009
**Why Did You Say That? Using Perceptual Identity to Break Through Barriersin the Workplace*
Jean-Marie Navetta, PFLAG National & Leslie Traub,President & CEO of Cook Ross Inc.Are you encountering resistance to LGBT inclusion at work? You may feelfrustrated and hurt, wondering why some people seem so close minded andhomophobic. How did people develop these opinions about LGBTs and how doesthis impact behavior? The answers to these questions can help circumnavigatelabels, open discussions, reveal commonalities and create progress. Learnwhat perceptual identity analysis is, how it reveals our biases andimpulses, and how we can use it to approach creating change in the workplacecompassionately and effectively. *Join us at SHRM Diversity Conference** **www.shrm.orga=>
**San Diego, CA **October 20, 2009 ** **Uncovering Unconscious Bias*[image: Howard]Howard RossChief Learning OfficerCook Ross Inc.Unconscious bias regularly impacts decisions that are made inorganizations. Decisions ranging from who gets hired, to who gets certainchallenging assignments to what strategic directions are chosen based on whois and is not included in conversations leading to those decisions. Thispresentation explores a number of strategies that will help create workplacecultures in which employees can actively "unconceal" perceptions andpatterns that have been hidden. Cook Ross is considered to be the thoughtleader in the practical application of academic research of the unconsciousto organizational diversity efforts.
Smithsonian professional development workshops
There is still space in the October 6 workshop featuring our extremely popular special exhibition 1934: A New Deal for Artists. The artworks form a portrait of the country during the Great Depression that can be integrated into social studies, language arts, or visual arts lessons. In addition to receiving an exhibition catalog and other resources, participants will learn how their students can use the companion website, Picturing the 1930s, to create documentaries about the era.
For more information or to register, please visit:
http://americanart.si.edu/education/dev/
Many thanks,
Suzannah Niepold
Teacher Programs Coordinator
Smithsonian American Art Museum
(202)633-8543
For more information or to register, please visit:
http://americanart.si.edu/education/dev/
Many thanks,
Suzannah Niepold
Teacher Programs Coordinator
Smithsonian American Art Museum
(202)633-8543
Jumat, 18 September 2009
Volunteer opportunity to help kids in military families
Vienna, VA art gallery / art therapist collaboration opportunity!
A local art gallery in Vienna, VA is looking for a few art therapists to work with a nonprofit venture she has. The therapist would work with kids whose parents are in the military and stationed overseas.
You can contact her directly at the number below:
Gayle Roberts
Airhill Gallery
703-938-2939
A local art gallery in Vienna, VA is looking for a few art therapists to work with a nonprofit venture she has. The therapist would work with kids whose parents are in the military and stationed overseas.
You can contact her directly at the number below:
Gayle Roberts
Airhill Gallery
703-938-2939
Kamis, 17 September 2009
Juried Fine Arts Exhibition!
Hello Everyone,
My name is Julie Adler Noyes and I am part of the Virginia Art Therapy chapter. I am the curator of the "St. Matthias Second Annual Fine Arts Exhibition". This is the second year that I have been in charge of arranging exhibitions for our Fine Arts Series, that combines the visual arts with dramatic performances and concerts. As an art therapist and artist, I am very supportive of the arts and I am also an member of the Art6 Gallery, that is currently exhibiting the "Art of Recovery" show here in Richmond. I invite you to submit artwork for this exhibition. There is a monetary prize for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. Attached to the email is the entry form.
Thank you, Julie
Print this ENTRY FORM
St. Matthias Second Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibition
JUROR: Henrietta Near, is a nationally known artist, who continues to be a major supporter of the arts in the City of Richmond.
PRESENTATION: Two-dimensional and three-dimensional artworks in all media are welcome.
All work must be the original work of the entrant, suitably mounted or framed, with hardware ready for hanging.
Deliver an entry form with each piece of art by October 11, 2009. Each artist may submit up to four pieces of art. If the artist is unable to deliver artwork by October 11, 2009, special arrangements made by contacting: Julie Adler Noyes at: email: julieanoyes@verizon.net or phone: 804-272-3852
Deliver artwork to:
St. Matthias Episcopal Church
11300 West Huguenot Road,
Midlothian, Virginia 23113
Each artist, whose work is accepted, will receive notification by email or phone by October 16, 2009.
•Artist with artwork not chosen for the exhibition will receive notification by email or phone.
•A completed entry form must accompany each piece of artwork.
CALENDAR:
October 11 - Deadline for entries (Artwork received between the hours of 9:00 am to 12:30 pm)
October 16 - Official invitation from curators emailed to participating artists (in the event that there is no email, the artist will receive a phone call).
Sunday October 18: 4:00 pm Concert and 6:00 pm Opening Reception
Exhibition Ends: Friday October 23, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Artwork picked-up on Sunday October 25, 2009
Prizes
First place will receive 100.00-dollar prize, second place will receive 50.00-dollar prize, third place 25.00-dollar prize, and honorable mentions will receive a 10.00-dollar gift certificate from a local art store.
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1. Make two copies of the completed form for each entry and attach one copy to the back of artwork.
2. Submit one copy per artwork to arrive by Sunday, October 11, 2009
Artist Name: ____________________________________________________________
Address: _______________________________________________________________
City: State: Zip: __________________________________________________________
Cell Phone: ( ) alt. phone ( ) Email:_______________
Entry #_______________________________________
Title: _________________________________________
Media: ________________________________________
Size: Price: ____________________________________
Submission of this form and my signature below signifies that I agree that St. Matthias Episcopal Church of Richmond, Virginia has the right to reproduce images for all media and publicity purposes. The Church will receive 20% of the retail price of each piece of artwork sold. A 5.00-dollar entry fee is required from each artist entering this exhibition.
Artist Signature_____________________________________________
Date: ______________________________
My name is Julie Adler Noyes and I am part of the Virginia Art Therapy chapter. I am the curator of the "St. Matthias Second Annual Fine Arts Exhibition". This is the second year that I have been in charge of arranging exhibitions for our Fine Arts Series, that combines the visual arts with dramatic performances and concerts. As an art therapist and artist, I am very supportive of the arts and I am also an member of the Art6 Gallery, that is currently exhibiting the "Art of Recovery" show here in Richmond. I invite you to submit artwork for this exhibition. There is a monetary prize for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. Attached to the email is the entry form.
Thank you, Julie
Print this ENTRY FORM
St. Matthias Second Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibition
JUROR: Henrietta Near, is a nationally known artist, who continues to be a major supporter of the arts in the City of Richmond.
PRESENTATION: Two-dimensional and three-dimensional artworks in all media are welcome.
All work must be the original work of the entrant, suitably mounted or framed, with hardware ready for hanging.
Deliver an entry form with each piece of art by October 11, 2009. Each artist may submit up to four pieces of art. If the artist is unable to deliver artwork by October 11, 2009, special arrangements made by contacting: Julie Adler Noyes at: email: julieanoyes@verizon.net or phone: 804-272-3852
Deliver artwork to:
St. Matthias Episcopal Church
11300 West Huguenot Road,
Midlothian, Virginia 23113
Each artist, whose work is accepted, will receive notification by email or phone by October 16, 2009.
•Artist with artwork not chosen for the exhibition will receive notification by email or phone.
•A completed entry form must accompany each piece of artwork.
CALENDAR:
October 11 - Deadline for entries (Artwork received between the hours of 9:00 am to 12:30 pm)
October 16 - Official invitation from curators emailed to participating artists (in the event that there is no email, the artist will receive a phone call).
Sunday October 18: 4:00 pm Concert and 6:00 pm Opening Reception
Exhibition Ends: Friday October 23, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Artwork picked-up on Sunday October 25, 2009
Prizes
First place will receive 100.00-dollar prize, second place will receive 50.00-dollar prize, third place 25.00-dollar prize, and honorable mentions will receive a 10.00-dollar gift certificate from a local art store.
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1. Make two copies of the completed form for each entry and attach one copy to the back of artwork.
2. Submit one copy per artwork to arrive by Sunday, October 11, 2009
Artist Name: ____________________________________________________________
Address: _______________________________________________________________
City: State: Zip: __________________________________________________________
Cell Phone: ( ) alt. phone ( ) Email:_______________
Entry #_______________________________________
Title: _________________________________________
Media: ________________________________________
Size: Price: ____________________________________
Submission of this form and my signature below signifies that I agree that St. Matthias Episcopal Church of Richmond, Virginia has the right to reproduce images for all media and publicity purposes. The Church will receive 20% of the retail price of each piece of artwork sold. A 5.00-dollar entry fee is required from each artist entering this exhibition.
Artist Signature_____________________________________________
Date: ______________________________
Rabu, 16 September 2009
Art Peace Sustainability: Global Interactive Event
From LinkedIn Groups:
Group: Art Therapy Alliance
Subject: Art Peace Sustainability: Global Interactive Event
The Art Therapy Alliance and International Art Therapy Organization are sponsoring a global interactive event called "Art Peace Sustainability."
If you haven't already, submit postcard-sized art works reflecting these concepts or you can make response art inspired by the following questions:
- Does art therapy impact peace and sustainability on the planet?
- How do art, peace, and sustainability intersect?
- Does the creative process of art making resolve conflicts?
- Does art therapy build and sustain community?
- Is art therapy a "green" practice?
You can create as many artworks as you want to and participate in these ways:
1) create your image, make an electronic scan or digital photo, and email to gallery@internationalarttherapy.org
2) create your work on http://www.polyvore.com and submit to the Art Peace Sustainability Event Web Gallery: http://www.polyvore.com/art_peace_sustainability_an_interactive/group.show?id=72471
3) meet up @ the 2009 AATA Conference Open Studio on Friday, November 20th, from 11:45 am to 1:00 pm. to work on some art for this event together!
For more information and to check out art already submitted go to: http://www.internationalarttherapy.org/interactive.html http://www.arttherapyalliance.org/Gallery.html
You can also download a PDF of event information here: http://www.internationalarttherapy.org/ArtPeacePostcard.pdf
Join in on this creative and collabortive event with the Alliance and IATO communities!
Think. Respond. Create.
Best wishes, Gretchen Miller, MA, ATR-BC Art Therapy Alliance http://www.arttherapyalliance.org
Cathy Malchiodi, Ph.D, LPCC, ATR-BC, LPAT International Art Therapy Organization http://www.internationalarttherapy.org
Group: Art Therapy Alliance
Subject: Art Peace Sustainability: Global Interactive Event
The Art Therapy Alliance and International Art Therapy Organization are sponsoring a global interactive event called "Art Peace Sustainability."
If you haven't already, submit postcard-sized art works reflecting these concepts or you can make response art inspired by the following questions:
- Does art therapy impact peace and sustainability on the planet?
- How do art, peace, and sustainability intersect?
- Does the creative process of art making resolve conflicts?
- Does art therapy build and sustain community?
- Is art therapy a "green" practice?
You can create as many artworks as you want to and participate in these ways:
1) create your image, make an electronic scan or digital photo, and email to gallery@internationalarttherapy.org
2) create your work on http://www.polyvore.com and submit to the Art Peace Sustainability Event Web Gallery: http://www.polyvore.com/art_peace_sustainability_an_interactive/group.show?id=72471
3) meet up @ the 2009 AATA Conference Open Studio on Friday, November 20th, from 11:45 am to 1:00 pm. to work on some art for this event together!
For more information and to check out art already submitted go to: http://www.internationalarttherapy.org/interactive.html http://www.arttherapyalliance.org/Gallery.html
You can also download a PDF of event information here: http://www.internationalarttherapy.org/ArtPeacePostcard.pdf
Join in on this creative and collabortive event with the Alliance and IATO communities!
Think. Respond. Create.
Best wishes, Gretchen Miller, MA, ATR-BC Art Therapy Alliance http://www.arttherapyalliance.org
Cathy Malchiodi, Ph.D, LPCC, ATR-BC, LPAT International Art Therapy Organization http://www.internationalarttherapy.org
Art therapist participates in Memory Walk-You can help!
Hello everyone,
As most of you know I work with the elderly and those who have Alzheimer's disease as an art therapist. The interest in this started years ago when my grandmother was diagnosed and I started doing art with her. I've decided to support the Alz Assoc. this year by participating in their Memory Walk in DC and in turn am looking for support form all of you!
This is something very important to me and I'd be happy for help in any form. You can make a donation, walk with me, or think happy thoughts on the day of the walk! I'd appreciate whatever you can offer.
Here's the link to my donation page if feel you can give a donation as small as $25:http://alz.kintera.org/nationalwalk/emery
If you want to walk and/or join my group go here:http://alz.kintera.org/nationalwalk/artalz
Either page has a link to the other, so have fun looking around, reading my story, and hopefully joining my group and adding your own story!
Oct. 17th
National Mall, Washington, DC
Walker Check-In: 9:00 a.m.
Opening Ceremonies will begin at 10:00 a.m. with the Walk to immediately follow.
There's a 1 mile option and a 3 mile option (nothing too strenuous!)
Thank you for your support in advance! If you have friends or anyone you think would be interested in this I would appreciate it if you passed along the information.
E-mail me if you want to walk and we'll all meet up and have a fun morning together.
Hope to talk to or see you all soon!
Emery
emery.mikel@gmail.com
Today an estimated 5.3 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's. In addition, 78 million baby boomers are approaching the age of greatest risk for developing this fatal disease. Now is the time to ACT to end this epidemic!
As most of you know I work with the elderly and those who have Alzheimer's disease as an art therapist. The interest in this started years ago when my grandmother was diagnosed and I started doing art with her. I've decided to support the Alz Assoc. this year by participating in their Memory Walk in DC and in turn am looking for support form all of you!
This is something very important to me and I'd be happy for help in any form. You can make a donation, walk with me, or think happy thoughts on the day of the walk! I'd appreciate whatever you can offer.
Here's the link to my donation page if feel you can give a donation as small as $25:http://alz.kintera.org/nationalwalk/emery
If you want to walk and/or join my group go here:http://alz.kintera.org/nationalwalk/artalz
Either page has a link to the other, so have fun looking around, reading my story, and hopefully joining my group and adding your own story!
Oct. 17th
National Mall, Washington, DC
Walker Check-In: 9:00 a.m.
Opening Ceremonies will begin at 10:00 a.m. with the Walk to immediately follow.
There's a 1 mile option and a 3 mile option (nothing too strenuous!)
Thank you for your support in advance! If you have friends or anyone you think would be interested in this I would appreciate it if you passed along the information.
E-mail me if you want to walk and we'll all meet up and have a fun morning together.
Hope to talk to or see you all soon!
Emery
emery.mikel@gmail.com
Today an estimated 5.3 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's. In addition, 78 million baby boomers are approaching the age of greatest risk for developing this fatal disease. Now is the time to ACT to end this epidemic!
Senin, 14 September 2009
Local Cultural Events
14th Annual Multicultural Children's Book Festival
Saturday, September 12, 2009; 12 - 6 pm
Kennedy Center Roof Level, 2700 F Street NW, WDC 20566
Bring the entire family to meet your favorite authors, listen to celebrity book readings, and more. Celebrate diverse cultures with authors from around the world. Hundreds of titles from African, African American, Arab, Asian, Latin American, and Native American perspectives will be available for purchase.
Free Admission
For more information: www.kennedy-center.org or 202-467-4600
Hispanic Heritage Month Family Day Celebration
Saturday, September 12, 2009;
1-5 pm
Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery,
Kogod Courtyard, 8th & F Streets N.W.Gallery Place/China Town
Bring the whole family to a day of rainforest-themed craft-making and art activities, music and dance performances by Grufolpawa (a Panamanian folk ensemble), storytelling, and bilingual tours. This event is free.For more information and a complete event calendar, visit www.smithsonianeducation.org/heritage
Enjoy and have a great day!
Elva
Saturday, September 12, 2009; 12 - 6 pm
Kennedy Center Roof Level, 2700 F Street NW, WDC 20566
Bring the entire family to meet your favorite authors, listen to celebrity book readings, and more. Celebrate diverse cultures with authors from around the world. Hundreds of titles from African, African American, Arab, Asian, Latin American, and Native American perspectives will be available for purchase.
Free Admission
For more information: www.kennedy-center.org or 202-467-4600
Hispanic Heritage Month Family Day Celebration
Saturday, September 12, 2009;
1-5 pm
Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery,
Kogod Courtyard, 8th & F Streets N.W.Gallery Place/China Town
Bring the whole family to a day of rainforest-themed craft-making and art activities, music and dance performances by Grufolpawa (a Panamanian folk ensemble), storytelling, and bilingual tours. This event is free.For more information and a complete event calendar, visit www.smithsonianeducation.org/heritage
Enjoy and have a great day!
Elva
If you are interested in Health Care Reform...
What: Health Reform Rally with President Obama
Where: Comcast Center
1 Terrapin Trail
College Park, MD 20742
When: Thursday, September 17th
Doors Open: 9:00 a.m.
Start Time: 11:00 a.m.
P.S. -- All attendees will go through airport-like security and should bring as few personal items as possible. No bags, no sharp objects, no umbrellas, no liquids, no strollers, and no signs will be allowed into the venue.
Where: Comcast Center
1 Terrapin Trail
College Park, MD 20742
When: Thursday, September 17th
Doors Open: 9:00 a.m.
Start Time: 11:00 a.m.
P.S. -- All attendees will go through airport-like security and should bring as few personal items as possible. No bags, no sharp objects, no umbrellas, no liquids, no strollers, and no signs will be allowed into the venue.
Minggu, 13 September 2009
Our Fall 2009 PATA gathering:
Celebrating our Art Therapy Community!
Local art therapists, artists, friends and families gathered yesterday for a wonderful PATA afternoon gathering in Silver Spring-more photos to come!
Selasa, 08 September 2009
PATA Party this Saturday!
Celebrating our Art Therapy Community!
Join us for a potluck gathering in Silver Spring, MD (accessible by Metro, red line)
Saturday Sept. 12th, 4pm.
Eastern Village
7981 Eastern Avenue (on the roof)
Silver Spring, MD,
914-602-9286
Local art therapists, artists, friends and families are invited to join the Potomac Art Therapy Association (PATA) for a late afternoon gathering on the roof. Please bring your favorite cultural/family dish to share for the potluck and $5 per person for beverages. PATA is excited to announce and honor our 2009 award winners at this event! There is also a gazebo and small playground on the roof.
Free parking can be found in Kennet Street Garage: 8040 Kennett Street, Silver Spring, MD 20910-4881 located behind Eastern Village.
See you there!
"Paint made Flesh" event a success!
The PATA & Phillip Co
llection social was a success!!! "The Arts and Art Therapists- Social Networking Series” at the PHILIPS AFTER 5 was a great way to start PATA’s new cultural event season under the auspices of Program chair, Elva Anderson. The evening was a delight. The exhibit is called “Paint Made Flesh” which includes works by such artists as Georg Baselitz, Philip Gunston, Susan Rothenberg, Picasso, DeKooning, Schnabel, Penck to name just a few. Vesela Sretenovic, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Philips Collection and Kristen Hileman, associate curator of contemporary art at the Hirshorn Museum of Sculpture Garden presented a discussion of the art of Guston and Baselitz .
The works delved into the pain and suffering of certain artists, the pure love of the figure for others and, as Dekooning said “Flesh is the reason why oil painting was invented.”
Using the forum that Philips After 5 presents allowed the PATA participants to also take in the Latin Jazz Trio, catered treats and a cash bar.
~Terry Svat
Art Therapists and friends met to enjoy an evening of enriching art, friendship, music and fo
od.
llection social was a success!!! "The Arts and Art Therapists- Social Networking Series” at the PHILIPS AFTER 5 was a great way to start PATA’s new cultural event season under the auspices of Program chair, Elva Anderson. The evening was a delight. The exhibit is called “Paint Made Flesh” which includes works by such artists as Georg Baselitz, Philip Gunston, Susan Rothenberg, Picasso, DeKooning, Schnabel, Penck to name just a few. Vesela Sretenovic, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Philips Collection and Kristen Hileman, associate curator of contemporary art at the Hirshorn Museum of Sculpture Garden presented a discussion of the art of Guston and Baselitz .The works delved into the pain and suffering of certain artists, the pure love of the figure for others and, as Dekooning said “Flesh is the reason why oil painting was invented.”
Using the forum that Philips After 5 presents allowed the PATA participants to also take in the Latin Jazz Trio, catered treats and a cash bar.
~Terry Svat
Art Therapists and friends met to enjoy an evening of enriching art, friendship, music and fo
od.
Expressive Therapist/Part-time Washington Adventist Hospital Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
Expressive Therapist/Part-time Washington Adventist Hospital Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
Takoma Park Maryland (just NE of DC)
20 Hours/Week Afternoons M-F
Qualifications: Masters preferred (i.e., Recreation Therapy, Music Therapy, Drama Therapy, Art Therapy). Prior experience in acute psychiatric care preferred.
Responsibilities: Expressive Therapist collaborates with a multidisciplinary team to provide evidence-based treatment and service for adult and adolescent inpatient psychiatric patients.
Therapist conducts a program of therapeutic activities including art, recreation, relaxation, psycho-education, verbal processing groups, and movement therapy to assist participants to move toward improved functioning and attainment of individual treatment goals. Therapist works with Behavioral health staff to co-lead effectively.
Therapist documents patients’ responses to these services in accordance with regulatory standards.
Therapist implements the therapeutic program as planned in the absence of the E.T. Coordinator.
Please go to the following link:
http://www.adventisthealthcare.com/careers/job-search.aspx
under keywords, type in Expressive Therapist
Job code is 299976
Please fill out the online application and also send your resume to the email address below.
Rebecca Wilkinson, MA, ATR-BC
Coordinator, Expressive Therapies
Behavioral Health Unit 2100
Washington Adventist Hospital
Takoma Park, Maryland 20910
301 891 5557
Raw1717@yahoo.com
Takoma Park Maryland (just NE of DC)
20 Hours/Week Afternoons M-F
Qualifications: Masters preferred (i.e., Recreation Therapy, Music Therapy, Drama Therapy, Art Therapy). Prior experience in acute psychiatric care preferred.
Responsibilities: Expressive Therapist collaborates with a multidisciplinary team to provide evidence-based treatment and service for adult and adolescent inpatient psychiatric patients.
Therapist conducts a program of therapeutic activities including art, recreation, relaxation, psycho-education, verbal processing groups, and movement therapy to assist participants to move toward improved functioning and attainment of individual treatment goals. Therapist works with Behavioral health staff to co-lead effectively.
Therapist documents patients’ responses to these services in accordance with regulatory standards.
Therapist implements the therapeutic program as planned in the absence of the E.T. Coordinator.
Please go to the following link:
http://www.adventisthealthcare.com/careers/job-search.aspx
under keywords, type in Expressive Therapist
Job code is 299976
Please fill out the online application and also send your resume to the email address below.
Rebecca Wilkinson, MA, ATR-BC
Coordinator, Expressive Therapies
Behavioral Health Unit 2100
Washington Adventist Hospital
Takoma Park, Maryland 20910
301 891 5557
Raw1717@yahoo.com
Minggu, 06 September 2009
Roger Tomhave's "10 Lessons the Arts Teach"
Roger Tomhave, the Fine Arts Coordinator of Fairfax County Public Schools, VA wrote this inspiring begining of school-year letter. I thought it was worth sharing:
Roger writes, "In our efforts to maintain our arts programs in the face of ever-weakening positions across the United States due to No Child Left Behind and diminishing budgets, we have often been forced into the argument that the arts are valuable because of the ways in which they enhance learning in “more important” subjects such as mathematics and language arts. This subservient position has further weakened our stance in the curriculum.
Make no mistake. An arts education is our birthright! We have the right to be educated. We are not fully educated unless that education includes an education in the arts. But what do the arts teach? Why are they critical in a well-rounded education? What do they add to the curriculum that cannot be gained in other ways?
Here are 10 lessons that the arts teach.
1. The arts teach children to make good, informed judgments about qualitative relationships. We do not operate in black and white, but relish the gray areas. Students learn to reflect on these qualitative relationships and assess and evaluate subtle differences in their own work and the work of others.
2. The arts teach children that a problem can have more than one solution and that a question can have more than one answer. They teach student to engage and persist. They develop focus and other mental states conducive to working and persevering in an art form to find an appropriate solution within a context.
3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives, multiple histories, genres, cultures, and peoples.
4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. They learn to observe and listen more carefully and with skills of subtle discernment. They learn to see and to hear what they otherwise may have missed.
5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. Music is a way of knowing. Visual stimulus is a way of knowing. Students learn to picture and hear mentally that which cannot be directly observed or heard and imagine possible next steps in composition.
6. The arts teach that small differences can have large effects.
7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material, or instrument. They learn technique. They develop craft. They learn artistic conventions. They learn to “speak” in the language of the art form.
8. The arts help children to say what cannot be said. They teach students to express, to create works that convey an idea, a feeling, or a personal meaning. They are a way to stretch beyond one’s own capacities and achieve beyond one’s own limitations in ensemble symphony, or synthesis.
9. The arts enable us to have experiences we can have from no other source. The arts are the way in which we mark experiences as special. They are the method through which we make our lives special.
10. The arts’ position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.
Adapted and combined from Eisner, E. (2002) The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Show, (pp. 70-92.) Yale University Press; and from Hetland, Lois; Winner, Ellen; Veenema, Shirley; Sheridan, Kimberly M. (2007) Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Arts Education, In Chapter 1, Making the Case for the Arts, (pp. 1-9) Teachers College Press.
This year, we will be expected to lead as if we are the strongest community for an arts education in the country. We are poised, educated, and prepared to do exactly that. We know that we will need to educate more than children. It has ever been so.
Thank you and have a great year."
Thanks, Roger, for your leadership in this area!
Roger writes, "In our efforts to maintain our arts programs in the face of ever-weakening positions across the United States due to No Child Left Behind and diminishing budgets, we have often been forced into the argument that the arts are valuable because of the ways in which they enhance learning in “more important” subjects such as mathematics and language arts. This subservient position has further weakened our stance in the curriculum.
Make no mistake. An arts education is our birthright! We have the right to be educated. We are not fully educated unless that education includes an education in the arts. But what do the arts teach? Why are they critical in a well-rounded education? What do they add to the curriculum that cannot be gained in other ways?
Here are 10 lessons that the arts teach.
1. The arts teach children to make good, informed judgments about qualitative relationships. We do not operate in black and white, but relish the gray areas. Students learn to reflect on these qualitative relationships and assess and evaluate subtle differences in their own work and the work of others.
2. The arts teach children that a problem can have more than one solution and that a question can have more than one answer. They teach student to engage and persist. They develop focus and other mental states conducive to working and persevering in an art form to find an appropriate solution within a context.
3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives, multiple histories, genres, cultures, and peoples.
4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. They learn to observe and listen more carefully and with skills of subtle discernment. They learn to see and to hear what they otherwise may have missed.
5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. Music is a way of knowing. Visual stimulus is a way of knowing. Students learn to picture and hear mentally that which cannot be directly observed or heard and imagine possible next steps in composition.
6. The arts teach that small differences can have large effects.
7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material, or instrument. They learn technique. They develop craft. They learn artistic conventions. They learn to “speak” in the language of the art form.
8. The arts help children to say what cannot be said. They teach students to express, to create works that convey an idea, a feeling, or a personal meaning. They are a way to stretch beyond one’s own capacities and achieve beyond one’s own limitations in ensemble symphony, or synthesis.
9. The arts enable us to have experiences we can have from no other source. The arts are the way in which we mark experiences as special. They are the method through which we make our lives special.
10. The arts’ position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.
Adapted and combined from Eisner, E. (2002) The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Show, (pp. 70-92.) Yale University Press; and from Hetland, Lois; Winner, Ellen; Veenema, Shirley; Sheridan, Kimberly M. (2007) Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Arts Education, In Chapter 1, Making the Case for the Arts, (pp. 1-9) Teachers College Press.
This year, we will be expected to lead as if we are the strongest community for an arts education in the country. We are poised, educated, and prepared to do exactly that. We know that we will need to educate more than children. It has ever been so.
Thank you and have a great year."
Thanks, Roger, for your leadership in this area!
Rabu, 02 September 2009
Here is an article in the school newspaper (The Hatchet) of my alma mater, George Washington University. It features some of my GW colleagues and intern who went for the Muliticultural class the program took to India. Enjoy!
Connecting cultures, one art project at a time
by Matt Rist
Hatchet Staff Writer
Issue: 8/27/09 Life
Media Credit: Courtesy Heidi Bardot
Connecting cultures, one art project at a time
by Matt Rist
Hatchet Staff Writer
Issue: 8/27/09 Life
Media Credit: Courtesy Heidi BardotGW graduate students and staff of a local Indian school stand around a piece of classic Indian art they created together using traditional methods.
In the midst of a bustling city in India, with streets full of cars, rickshaws and even cows, 15 GW graduate students washed away cultural and linguistic barriers this summer with little more than paint, brushes, chalk and a passion for the visual arts and psychology.
For the past two summers, GW's art therapy graduate program has distinguished itself as the only one of its kind in the country to send students abroad as part of a three-week summer course called "International Social and Cultural Art Therapy." This year, the program traveled to India.
"The focus of the program is psychology and fine arts," said Program Director Heidi Bardot. "The idea is that you use art to express yourself as opposed to just verbalization."
When Bardot sat down to plan this year's trip, she decided it was time to take the group even farther from the comforts of GW than they had ever gone before - to the far reaches of India.
After the students arrived in Chennai, a southeastern coastal city, they immersed themselves in everyday Indian life - interning at three schools, a psychiatric hospital, a shelter for the homeless and other locations across the city - all in an effort, Bardot said, to examine social and cultural diversity.
"The idea was to look at your own biases, stereotypes and feel what it is like to be a minority," Bardot said. "So often most of the clients we work with are minority populations, so I wanted the students to feel like they were in a situation where they didn't understand the language and were a minority in the country."
Some students shared their photographs and experiences on a blog created for the trip.
"This morning, after riding down the bumpy roads full of trees banging the roof of the van and enduring traffic jams greater than the 495, I realized that even worlds apart I can complete a mission so dear to my heart," wrote graduate student Lindsey Vance.
Bardot added that moments like that were what made the trip worthwhile.
"That was one of the most interesting experiences for the students, because [the people we worked with] couldn't speak much English and we didn't know their language, but we were able to interact through creating art together,"
While Bardot said students enjoyed their time at many of the job sites in India, others showed the harsh reality that many of the country's poor experience on a daily basis.
At one of the sites, Bardot said the students were shocked when they witnessed children being abused by facility staff members.
"It was very difficult for them to observe because the kids were being hit with sticks," Bardot said. "The people who were in charge of these kids had just not been trained yet; there are many things that were difficult for the students to observe with corporal punishment."
With the encouragement of her students, Bardot contacted a human rights lawyer in India and laid the foundation for affecting change at that particular job site.
"I think it was a really good learning process for the students, because they could actually witness what the situation was like and how we can go about changing that," Bardot said.
Lisa Garlock, assistant professor of art therapy and clinical placement coordinator for the program, reflected on what the students had accomplished in one of the last blog entries for the group.
"Art was able to reach deeper than words - art enabled the words to flow," she wrote.
Selasa, 01 September 2009
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