AATA Member Spotlights

Julie Altman Liddle

Judy Weiser
Jeri Corbin
Mary Kathleen McGraw

Julie Altman Liddle, M.A., A.T.R., an art therapist and early childhood art specialist, runs a unique program called Art in Hand for toddlers and preschoolers in the Washington, DC area. Click here to read an interview where Julie explains her innovative application of art therapy to the early childhood art program she developed.

Judy Weiser, R. Psych., A.T.R., recently signed a contract with Hakjisa Publishers to produce a Korean translation of her classic text "PhotoTherapy Techniques: Exploring the Secrets of Personal Snapshots and Family bums." She was also featured in an article about PhotoTherapy and Therapeutic Photography techniques (titled "PhotoTherapy: Reflecting on the Bigger Picture") in the June issue of Digital Photographer Magazine based in the U.K.

Judy taught a full-day Workshop about these techniques in Mexico (Nov. 2008), for the Latin American Family Therapy Association (where she also gave a Plenary Presentation to the full Conference) -- and she also gave a Workshop for the Art Psychotherapy Institute of Querétaro. Judy was also invited by the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counseling to author the "Invited Commentary" (review of articles) for their "Special Issue" in March of articles arising from papers presented at the "International Conference on PhotoTherapy and Therapeutic Photography" that happened last June in Finland. And one of Judy's articles (for the Canadian Art Therapy Journal) is currently being translated into Russian by a Social Psychologist for a book about "visual methodologies". Judy also accepted an invitation to author a Chapter about PhotoTherapy in a new Italian book about "Self-Portrait: Between Art and Therapy" (edited by Dr. Fabio Piccini, a medical psychoanalyst from Milan).

AND THE BIGGEST NEWS: The "Judy Weiser PhotoTherapy and Therapeutic Photography Educational Society" just received its official approval to Incorporate, and its application for a nonprofit tax number (from the Federal Government) will still take at least six months to be evaluated (because they are backed up from so many applications)...

Jeri Corbin

Learn more about Art Therapy and watch Art Therapist Jeri Corbin

in action as she works with older adults!

Mary Kathleen McGraw, more fondly known as Mickie, co-founded the Art Therapy Studio (ATS) in 1967 at Highland View Rehabilitation Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio (now MetroHealth Rehabilitation Institute of Ohio). First known as the Art Studio, the agency celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2007. To view the full article about how the history of the ATS intertwined with Mickie’s life and her response to a life-changing event, please click here.