War Toys
Check out this video on how Brian McCarty used toys and photography to describe art therapy sessions he witnessed with Israeli and Palestinian children:
Art Helps Healing In Joplin After Tornado
Enjoy this PBS video:
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Tigers Be Still
A play that’s touring the country who’s main character is a recent art therapy graduate, who can’t find a job and who ends up moving back in with her parents.
Tigers Be Still has great reviews, and even had an extended showing in NYC. But, isn’t it disturbing that the whole basis of the play is that this recent art therapy grad can’t find a job? But, don’t tell that to the educators who claim a large percentage of new grads go on to work in the field.
Anyhow, I missed the play while it was in SF…but if anyone sees it, I’d love to hear a review. Next stop is the Dobama Theatre in Cleveland October 21 – November 13, 2011.
Here’s the Dobama’s description of the play:
Critically acclaimed in its 2010 New York premiere, TIGERS BE STILL is a quirky, endearing and deliciously dark new comedy. Sherry Wickman, a young woman expects the perfect career and life to fall into place immediately upon earning her master’s degree in art therapy. Instead, Sherry finds herself unemployed, overwhelmed and back at home hiding out in her twin-sized childhood bed. But when Sherry gets hired as a substitute art teacher, things begin to brighten up. Now if only her mother would come downstairs, her sister would get off the couch, her very first therapy patient would do just one of his take-home assignments, her new boss would leave his gun at home, and someone would catch the tiger that escaped from the local zoo, everything would be just perfect.
Mental Health and Art as Therapy – an interview with Stuart Semple
British organization Mind, starts a fund to help people experiencing mental health problems explore the benefits of creative arts therapies.
Read an interview with artist, Stuart Semple, about his art making and the Mind project:
“I was left with this strange sense of questioning – what happened, what can I eat, what can I not eat – and nobody could really give me any answers…So in one way I guess I had an eating disorder, but also I was just incredibly anxious about anything and everything…Of all things we tried – and they did eventually point me to a psychologist – it was actually my art that was there for me and helped me through it all.”
Drawings About Amnesia—Recovery Art
Via Live Science:
The new show at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore follows Johnson’s journey, including her artwork from before she got viral encephalitis in 2007 and as she recovered. The journey is providing scientists unique insights into the dire effects of amnesia and the complementary roles played by language and memory in her artistic expression.
Joplin Debris ‘Reborn’ In Kansas City Art Project
Via NPR:
Thank you to Joyce W. for sending me this story!
Huston Artist Brings Art Classes To People With Developmental Disabilities
Check out this video where Alvin Roy is interviewed about his work teaching art to developmentally disabled teens and adults.
Parent, Doctor Swear by Art Therapy for Special-Needs Kids: MyFoxHOUSTON.com
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