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OUR COMMUNITY
The American Art Therapy Association provides the latest information about research, events and leaders in the world of art therapy. Art therapists provide an important health service using the creative process of art making to improve and enhance the physical, mental and emotional well-being of individuals of all ages. Art therapy is based on the creative process involved in artistic self-expression, and is used to help people to resolve conflicts and problems, develop interpersonal skills, manage behavior, reduce stress, increase self-esteem & self-awareness and achieve insight.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Click here to view a Calendar of Events Members and Chapters can add your events to our calendar. Send an email with detailed information (the name of the event, date, time, location and name and email/phone of a contact person) to mbasham@arttherapy.org.
Art Therapy Journal
Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association is an informative member benefit that attracts a worldwide audience of art therapists who want to stay current in the field. The official journal of the American Art Therapy Association is the leading scholarly research publication in art therapy. For more than 25 years, the journal has provided a scholarly forum for diverse points of view on art therapy and strives to present a broad spectrum of ideas in therapy, practice, professional issues, and research.
Members of the American Art Therapy Association receive the journal and archived issues FREE as part of their member benefits. Members of AATA may visit the Journal’s web site to find a wealth of information for readers, researchers, authors and contributors, students, and professionals. Please click on the Members Only Log In link to view and open the Journal.
Non-Members that are interested in purchasing a subscription to the Journal should click here.
Grants
Click here for a comprehensive listing of available grants that have been posted to Philanthropy News Digest and other sources.
Also click here for additional grants.
Veterans and Suicide
Please take moment to view the following video regarding the illness and tragic outcomes that far too many of our returning soldiers experience every day.
And many thanks to all of you who have reached out in your local community to serve our veterans and their families.
Research
Art Therapy Outcome and Single Subject Studies
We hope you will find this listing of art therapy outcome and single subject studies useful for purposes of research, grant writing, to demonstrate support for your art therapy program, and evidence of the effects of art therapy with various client populations.Art therapist educators, practitioners, researchers, students and others will find the Art Therapy Outcome Bibliography to be an invaluable tool in their work.
Multicultural Committee Selected Bibliography and Resource List
National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day 2011
The American Art Therapy Association celebrated National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day on May 3, 2011, by recognizing the importance of mental health for children. In communities across the country, art therapists worked with community groups, universities, museums, schools, and hospitals to ‘draw’ attention to this important national health need. Click here for information on the 2011 National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day activities across the country.
Films
As Seen Through These Eyes by Hilary Helstein. Click here to watch the trailer.
View El Arte es Terapia on CNN for art therapy coverage on the Spanish channel. Go to the Advocacy link for current national news.
Click here to view a CNN report on the role that art therapy plays in health care, featuring American Art Therapy Association Board Member Tracy Councill! Click here for more.
ART THERAPY STUDIO FEATURED ON WVIZ APPLAUSE - Art Therapy Studio was highlighted in a segment on WVIZ's Applause program in January. Applause is an Emmy award-winning locally produced TV show that celebrates artists and cultural groups around Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Each week this on-air arts magazine broadcasts a fresh half-hour of features, performances, on-location reports, and interviews from the studios of WVIZ/PBS ideastream. Congratulations to everyone involved in the taping! Click here to view the video.
Call for Authors
CALL FOR AUTHORS AND ARTISTS - The Neuro-Arts Movement
We are in the midst of a developing neuro-culture. This culture is encouraged and created from findings in neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience, as they are applied in popular culture. In the arts this movement has included the development of neuro-art history, neuro-aesthetics, and neuro-arts education. Hence, the time is ripe for an edited book on these transdisciplinary topics. This book is entitled “The Neuro-Arts Movement.” Submissions are invited from practitioners in the visual arts, music, theatre, and dance, as well as art educators, art therapists, brain researchers and neuroscience professionals. Working Conceptualization of Edited Book “The Neuro-Arts Movement”: At this point, the book is conceptualized as a primer on the brain which leads into a more in-depth coverage of neuroscience findings related to various arts disciplines. This would then be distilled to a focus on applications in the arts (e.g. neuro-aesthetics, neuro-art history, neuro-arts education, etc.), as well as presentation of artists working in a neuro-framework/paradigm.
Authors and Artists are invited to submit the following to be considered for inclusion in the book: An abstract consisting of two double-spaced pages (about 500- 600 words; artists should submit images and descriptions of artwork) in a Word or PDF file, with a minimum of three references.
Contact information
Use “Neuro-Arts Book” as the subject line of your e-mail and send to artways@aol.com
See www.neuro-artseducation.com for additional details
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