Art Therapy/Art Ed Workshops - Baltimore, April 13 & 14

Expressive Media, Inc. and the National Art Education Association

Announce Collaborative Training Opportunity

Registration is now available online at www.expressivemedia.org/naea

January 8, 2010 - Barry M. Cohen, ATR-BC, Executive Director of Expressive Media, Inc., is pleased to announce a unique collaboration between art therapists and art educators. This April 13 and 14, immediately prior to the NAEA annual convention, the two organizations will co-sponsor a two-day Pre-Conference Institute. Comprised of sixteen hands-on, three-hour workshops on subjects of mutual interest to art therapists and art educators, the title of the Institute is “Art Education and Art Therapy: Drawing Parallels, Deepening Relationships.” It will be held at the Hilton Baltimore.

The workshops have been designed by a group of 11 invited art therapist-educators from eight states, specifically for this inaugural collaboration. Topics for sessions are varied and practical, including: dealing with difficult adaptive art challenges, teaching students new ways to look at their art images, preventing dropouts, promoting social and emotional intelligence, even combating bullying and intolerance in the classroom. Featured art activities will include making 3D film animations, eco-portraits, and heritage collages. Group art therapy sessions will also be offered to help art educators and art therapists combat burnout. Continuing education credit is available.

According to Cohen, “We offered our first Institute of the Arts in Healing in July, and it was very well received. By collaborating with the NAEA, we will be able to deepen a dialogue between the professions that has been happening for decades, but never in such a dynamic format. The NAEA has been remarkably gracious, and we are really looking forward to this groundbreaking event.”

Expressive Media, Inc. is a nonprofit organization founded in 1985 by art therapist and art educator, Judith A. Rubin, PhD, with her colleague Eleanor Irwin, PhD, drama therapist and psychoanalyst. Rubin is the author of the 1978 book, Child Art Therapy, currently in its third edition. EMI's focus has been on the production and distribution of films demonstrating “best practices” in the expressive arts for education and therapy. More training Institutes and print materials are in the works to further extend our educational mission.

Founded in 1947, the NAEA serves 20,000 active members at pre-kindergarten through grade 12 levels as wells as college professors, administrators, and museum educators. The NAEA National Convention is the largest gathering of visual arts educators in the world, and includes over 1000 educational sessions. .

Advance tickets are $59/workshop. Purchase as may as 4 workshops, total. Neither NAEA membership nor convention registration is required for workshop registration. Also scheduled is a FREE film festival on Tuesday evening from 7-10pm, open to everyone, drawn from EMI’s extensive film archive. It will feature footage of expressive arts therapists and adaptive art specialists at work in school settings. Dr. Judith Rubin, author of Child Art Therapy will be one of several guest speakers.

INVITED FACULTY

Josie Abbenante, MA, ATR-BC, LPAT
Jodi Aker, MAT, ATR-BC
Frances Anderson, EdD, ATR-BC, HLM
Brian Austin, MPS
Rachel Brandoff, MA, ATR-BC, LCAT
Susan D. Loesl, MA, ATR-BC, WATR
Barbara Mandel, MA, ATR-BC
Sangeeta Prasad, MA, ATR-BC
Judith A. Rubin, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM
Stella A. Stepney, MS, ATR-BC
Linney Wix, PhD, ATR-BC

For further information, contact Barry M. Cohen at bmcohen@expressivemedia.org