CREDENTIALS
Art Therapy Registration (A.T.R.) #77-095 received 1977
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE - CURRENT
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, adjunct associate
professor, Art Therapy Department
1988-present
Union University, Cincinnati, OH, adjunct faculty 1992-present
Prescott College, Prescott AZ, visiting
faculty. 2005-present
John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, CA, adjunct faculty, 2006-present
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PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE - PAST
Harbor Alternative High School, visiting artist.
Oak Park, IL, 2002-2006
Studio Pardes, Oak Park, IL, community art studio and
gallery Founder and Director 2000-2004
Open Studio Project, Chicago, IL, co-founder and co-director 1993-2000
University of Illinois, Chicago, School of Art and Design, Assistant Professor,
Art Therapy Graduate Program 1980-1988
Art Enterprise, Oak Park, IL private practice, workshops, groups 1985-1993
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital, Sheridan Road Pavilion, Chicago, IL Art
Therapist, Acute Psychiatric Unit, Alcoholism Treatment Program, Stress Disorder
Unit 7/80-8/82
South Shore Mental Health Center/Coastal Community Counseling Center, Quincy,
MA:
Mental Health Worker, Adult/Aftercare Unit 1975
Art
Therapist/Group Therapist, Day Treatment Center 1975-1980
Art
Therapist/Psychotherapist, Child and Family Team 1976-1980
Art
Therapist, District Court Clinic 1978-1980
Art Therapy Consultant:
Adolescent Treatment Program, Pilot Program in
the Schools, Program
for Chronic Adults
Boundaries, Inc., Acton, MA, private group practice
with child and families,
Art Therapist/Psychotherapist
1977-1978
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Cape
Cod Institute, Nausett, MA, faculty, summer 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004
Naropa University, Boulder, CO, visiting lecturer, fall, 2000
Wayne
State University, Detroit, MI, visiting lecturer, spring, 2000
Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, visiting lecturer, summer, 1999
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, IL, visiting lecturer, summer, 1994
Vermont
College of Norwich University, Montpelier, VT, visiting lecturer, summer, 1981
Goddard College, Plainfield, VT, visiting faculty, 1978-1979; Assistant Program
Director summer 1979; Field Faculty, 1978-1980
Simmons College, Boston, MA, Summer Institute in Art Therapy, visiting lecturer
1976-1980
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CONSULTATION/SUPERVISION/PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT
Oak
Park Township Youth Services, Youth Advocacy Council, Advisor, 1998-2001
YWCA Women's Services, Chicago, IL 1992-1998
Pilsen-Little Village Mental Health Center, Chicago, IL, 1991-1998
Uhlich Children's Home, Chicago, IL 1991-1992
Chicago Mental Health Foundation, 1991-1992
The Peace Museum, Chicago, IL, 'Play Fair', exhibition on conflict resolution,
1987
Grateful House, Oak Park, IL, women's alcoholism half-way house, 1987-1988
Northwestern University Hospital Medical Center, Chicago, IL, substance abuse
unit, 1982
Beacon Therapeutic School, Chicago, IL teacher training, 1980
Juvenile Court of Cook County, Probation Department, Chicago, IL, staff training,
1980
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Art Committee, American Art Therapy
Association, 2000-present, chair 2004
Editorial Board, American journal of art therapy, 1986-2002
Editorial Board, ART THERAPY: Journal of the AATA, 1992-2001
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, CAAP Grant panelist, 1999, 2000
Publication Committee, American Art Therapy Association, Chair, 1987-1990
Policy and Procedure Committee, American Art Therapy Association, 1987-1988
American Art Therapy Association Newsletter, Editor, 1986-1990
Nominating Committee, American Art Therapy Association, 1993, 1994-95, Chair
Continuing Education Committee, American Art Therapy Association, 1985-1987
AATA National Conference Committee:
Local Arrangements Chair,
1983
Program Chair, 1984
Pre-Conference Course
Coordinator, 1983-1986
Program Committee, 1989, 1993-2000
New
England Art Therapy Association, President, 1977-1979
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SELECTED LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
“Opening to the Creative Source: Engaging the Sacred with Heart and Hands,” Winter Interim Arts Seminar, Hebrew College Rabbinic Program, Brookline, MA, January, 2009.
“Face-to-Face: Perception of the Other,” Engaging the Other, 3rd Annual Common Bond Institute Conference, San Rafael, CA, September, 2008
“Open Studio Process to Explore Social Issues,” Advanced practice course, AATA Annual Conference, Cleveland, OH, November 2008
“Living the Fool,” AATA Annual Conference, Cleveland, OH, November, 2008
"Art Therapy and Social Responsibility", keynote, Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ, April 2008
"Facing Homelessness" Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ, April 2008
"Surfacing Images for the Collective", Advanced Practice Course, AATA Annual Conference, Albuerquerque, NM, November, 2007
"Keepers of the Flame: Art Therapy into the
Future", keynote, Canadian Art Therapy Association,
Toronto, Canada, October, 2006
"Treasures of the Imagination", keynote
and workshop, Expressive Therapy Institute conference,
Newport Beach, CA, October, 2006
"Art, Spirituality, and Community", invited
lecture and workshop, JFK University,
Berkeley, CA,
April, 2006
"Intention and Witness in the Creative Process",
Dance Therapy Institute, San Francisco, CA, March,
2006
"Art Therapy and Conflict Resolution",
keynote, Hofstra University, Hempstead Long Island,
NY, March, 2006
"The Practice of
Chaos in Art and Life",
workshop, Mount Mary College, Milwaukee, WI, April,
2006
"Art Based Inquiry: Engaging the Emotional
Component of Intellectual Work," with Adina Allen,
AATA annual conference,
Atlanta, GA, November 2005.
"The Practice of Chaos," lecture and workshop, Southern Illinois University,
Edwardsville,
IL, October 2005.
"Sailing
Too Close to the Rocks: Expressive Arts with At-Risk Adolescents",
keynote, University
of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK, June, 2005
"Creativity
and Recovery: Making Art with and About Family",
keynote, PLANN Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH,
MAy 2005
"'Facing
Homelessness', A Critique of a Community Mask Making Project", AATA annual conference,
Chicago, IL, 2003
"Community Arts Leadership for Arts Therapists", pre-conference course, AATA annual
conference, Washington, D.C., 2002
"Community Arts Leadership", OFFCenter Community Arts, Albuquerque, NM,
August,
2002
"Intention and Witness as a Guide to Creative Work", University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM, November, 2001
"Radical Freedom: Reflections from Within the Studio", AATA annual conference,
Albuquerque, NM November 2001
"The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions", keynote address, Marywood University,
Scranton, PA, May, 2001
"Opening to the Source", keynote address and workshop, Eastern Virginia Medical
School, Norfolk, VA, April 2000
"Art-based research: The Sabbath Bride", AATA annual conference, Orlando, FL,
1999
"Mentoring in Art Therapy", with Barbara Fish, ATR, AATA annual conference,
Orlando, FL, 1999
"Witness: The Intuitive Voice", New Mexico Art Therapy Association, Albuquerque,
NM,
April, 1999
"Art as a Way of Knowing", keynote address, Seton Hill College,
Greensburg, PA,
April 1999
"The Social and Political Implications of the Studio", School of Visual Arts,
New York, NY, October, 1998
"Aligning Inner and Outer Reality: The Open Studio Process", Marywood College,
Scranton, PA June 1998
"The Sabbath Bride: The Image as Heuristic Inquiry", keynote address, Naropa Institute,
Boulder, CO, 5th Annual Transpersonal Counseling Psychology Conference, June 1998
"Art is a Way of Knowing", C.G. Jung Institute, Evanston, IL January, 1998
"Compassionate Presence: Working with Illness", with Laurie Ellen Neustadt, AATA
Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI, November, 1997
"Building and Envisioning Your Preferred Work Life", with Dayna Block and Deborah
Gadiel, AATA Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 1997
"Grief Work Through Response Art", with Gussie Klorer, ATR, Illinois Art Therapy
Association Annual Conference, River Forest, IL, May 1997
"Art is a Way of Knowing", lecture and workshop, Interface, Cambridge , MA,
August 1996
"Touchstones: An Act of Remembrance", commencement address, Eastern Virginia Medical
School, Norfolk, VA, May 1996
"Why Art is a Matter of Life and Death", Titus Memorial Lecture, Lesley College,
Cambridge, MA, March, 1996
"The
Quality of Witness", workshop, Lesley College, Cambridge, MA, March 1996
"Art is a Way of Knowing: From Therapist to Steward", AATA Annual Conference,
San Diego, CA, November, 1995
"Why Art is a Matter of Life and Death", Louisiana Art Therapy Association,
September, 1995
Mandala Workshop, MacNeal Hospital Cancer Support Program, Berwyn, IL, January,
1995
"Talisman
Workshop, Shamanic Art" Edgewood College, Madison, WI,
November, 1995
"From Zen to Zeitgeist" keynote lecture, Illinois Art Therapy Association, Chicago,
River Forest, IL, June 1994
"Soul and Spirit: The Image Instructs", AATA Annual Conference,
Atlanta, GA,
November 1993
"Psychological Aspects of Treatment in Art Therapy", American Society of Hispanic
Psychiatry 2nd Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, October 1993
"Self Renewal: Exploring the Negative Space", workshop, Oklahoma Art Therapy Association,
Lone Wolf, OK, September, 1993
"Contemporary Revisioning of Shamanic Tradition, keynote lecture and workshop,
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Tenth Annual Conference, May 1993
"Innovations in Family Therapy Supervision", Olympia Mental Health Center, Everett,
WA, March, 1993
"Talisman Workshop", AATA Annual Conference Las Vegas, NV, November 1992
"The Role of Gender in Contemporary Art", panel, Crux Gallery, Chicago, IL
March 1992
"Outsider Art: An Art Therapist's Perspective", panel, Hothouse, Chicago, IL
March 1992
"The History of Ideas in Art Therapy", keynote lecture, University of Utah, Salt
Lake City, UT, February, 1992
"The Function of Projection in our Perception of Others: Propaganda Art", Woman's
Caucus for Art National Conference, January 1992
"Art Therapy: Post-Mortem", panel, AATA Annual Conference, Denver, CO,
November,
1991
"Talisman Workshop: Revisioning Shamanic Traditions", Concordia University, River
Forest, IL, August, 1991
"Mask Workshop", School of the Art Institute at Oxbow, Saugatuck, MI,
July,
1991
"Emerging Selves, Evolving Selves", panel, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, July 1991
"Perception of the Other: Exploring Cultural Diversity and Teaching Intercultural
Awareness Through Art", panel, National Lewis University, Evanston, IL,
June
1991
"Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" BASIC Workshop, School of the Art
Institute, Chicago, IL October, 1990
"Image Making and the Grief Process", workshop, Compassionate Friends, Hindsdale,
IL September, 1990
"Art Therapy and Substance Abuse", all day course, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA,
April 1990
"Creativity and Addiction", Lesley College, Cambridge, MA, April, 1990
"Violence Against Women: Art Therapy as Public Document", Guild Gallery, Chicago,
IL, February, 1990
"Suicide: What is the Role of the Art Therapist?" panel, AATA Annual Conference,
San Francisco, CA, November, 1989 "Where is the Art in Art Therapy?" panel, AATA
Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, November, 1989
"Where is the Art in Art Therapy?" panel,
AATA Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA,
November,
1989
"Introduction to Art Therapy for Art Teachers", Illinois Art Education Association,
Chicago, IL 1989
"Professional Issues in Art Therapy: Present and Future", Illinois Art Therapy
Association, April, 1989
"Art Making as a Metaphor for Developing Research in Art Therapy", AATA Annual
Conference, Chicago, IL, November, 1988
"Powerlessness and Surrender in Images of Recovery" workshop, with Barbara Fish,
ATR, New Mexico Art Therapy Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, October,
1988
"Powerlessness and Higher Power in Artwork with Alcoholics", Illinois Art Therapy
Association Annual Conference, April, 1988
"Outsider Art", panel, Illinois Art Therapy Association Conference, Chicago, IL
April, 1988
"Art Therapy and Bereavement", College of DuPage, Desplaines, IL, March, 1988
"Family Mask Making", The Peace Museum, Chicago, IL November, 1987
"A Health Based Model of Art Therapy", AATA Annual Conference, Miami, FL,
November 1987
"Creativity in Art Therapy Education", panel, AATA Annual Conference, Miami, FL,
November, 1987
"The Feminine in Art Therapy", Mount Mary College, Milwaukee, WI August, 1987
"Art and the Art Therapist", Illinois Art Therapy Association
Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May, 1987
"Ethics and the Use of Children's Art", Hands Around the World, Austin, TX,
February 1987
"Art as an Aid in Bereavement", AATA Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA,
November,
1986
"Innovative Media in Art Therapy", UIC Annual Conference, Chicago, IL,
April,
1986
"Art Therapy and Oncology", Northwestern University Hospital, Society of Oncology
Social Workers, January, 1985
"Uses of Art Therapy in Pain Management", Triton College, Elmwood Park, IL April,
1985
"Integrating Art Therapy into an Alcoholism Treatment Program", IATA Annual Conference,
Chicago, IL, 1985
"Finding the Goddess", UIC Summer Institute in Art Therapy,
Lake Geneva, IL,
June, 1985
"Guided Imagery in Grief Work", Hospice of Proviso-Leyden, October, 1984
"The Use of Art Therapy in Hospice Care", Cook County Graduate School of Medicine,
Chicago, IL June 1983
"The Healing Power of the Feminine", UIC Annual Conference, Chicago, IL February,
1983
"The Healing Image", IATA, Chicago, IL February, 1983
"Art in Psychotherapy", keynote address, Bowling Green State University, Bowling
Green, OH, 1983
"Guided Imagery Workshop", AATA Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA,
October,
1983
"Loss of a Loved One", UIC Annual Conference, Chicago, IL March, 1982
"Art Making for Conceptualization, Integration, and Self-Awareness in Art Therapy
Training" with Harriet Wadeson, ATR, AATA Annual Conference,
Liberty, NY,
September 1980
"Contrasting Treatment of the Schizophrenic Patient: Long and Short-Term Art Therapy"
with Gail Meyer, ATR, AATA Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, 1976
"Art Therapy with Post-Hospitalized Patients", and "Art Therapy with Adults: A
Case Study", New England Art Therapy Association Fall Conference, Boston, MA,
1975
"Community Paraprofessionals in Mental Health", Women's Conference on Health,
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 1975
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SELECTED JURIED AND INVITED EXHIBITS
“Members Show,” The Open Studio Project, Evanston, IL November, 2008
“The Pomegranate Exercise,” Calypso Moon Gallery, Oak Park, IL, September, 2007
"A Mind of Her Own: Father and Daughters Changing the World", Oak Park Public Library, Oak Park, IL November, 2006
"School of the Art Institute Art Therapy Faculty Show", Open Studio Project,
Evanston, IL October, 2005
"Things Fall Apart", collages, Roaring Belly Glasswerks, Oak Park, IL, September, 2005.
"A Mind of Her Own: Father
and Daughters Changing the World", Oak Park Public
Library, Oak Park, IL November, 2006
"School
of the Art Institute Art Therapy Faculty Show", Open
Studio Project,
Evanston, IL
October, 2005
"Things
Fall Apart", collages, Roaring Belly Glasswerks, Oak Park, IL, September, 2005.
"Shekinah
Series", Village Players Theatre, Oak Park, IL, October, 2000
"Remembrance" Annual Day of the Dead Show, Oak Park Art League, October, 1999-2003
"Members Show, WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL August, 1999
"Seven Deadly Sins", Oak Park Art League, February, 1996
"Domestic Watercolors", River Forest Library, February, 1995
DiRicci
Gallery, Edgewood College, Madison, WI November, 1994
Harold Washington Library, Chicago, AATA November, 1994
Concordia University, River Forest, IL IATA invitational Show, June, 1992
ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL IATA Show, July 1991
Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL Women's Caucus for Art, April, 1990
"Art by Art Therapists" Rush-Presbyterian-St.Luke's Hospital, Chicago, IL,
April, 1988
N.A.M.E. Gallery, collage show, Chicago, IL, January, 1988
"Art for Peace", Prism Gallery, Evanston, IL, October, 1987
Artemesia
Gallery, Women's Caucus for Art Show, September, 1986
"Pictures Without a Story", one-person show C.G. Jung Center, Evanston, IL, April,
1985
Spertus Museum of Judaica, Mask Show, Chicago, IL 1984, 1986
"Art by Art Therapists", Firebird Gallery, Alexandria, VA, October, 1984
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SHOWS
CURATED
"Light and Dark", Studio Pardes, Oak Park, IL, December, 2003
"The Glory of Books", Oak Park Library, October, 2003 "Text/Context", Studio Pardes,
Oak Park, IL September, 2003
"Text/Context", Studio Pardes, Oak Park,
IL September, 2003
"Mother Show",
Studio Pardes, Oak Park, IL, May, 2003
"Facing Homelessness: A Community Mask Project", Oak Park Village Hall Gallery,
Forest Park National Bank, Berwyn Public Library and Studio Pardes, Oak Park,
IL,
December, 2002
"Honoring Shekinah: Jewish Women's Voices", Studio Pardes, Oak Park, IL,
May,
2001
"The Goddess Speaks", Studio Pardes, Oak Park, IL, September, 2001
"Creative
Expression Through Art and Writing: Works by Students of BEACONS Academy", Studio
Pardes, Oak Park, IL, July, 2001
PERFORMANCES
Witness to Our Times: A Performance/ Ritual/Invocation
to the Creative Source,
American Art Therapy Association Annual Conference
opening plenary session,
Chicago, IL, 2003
Points of Reference, Points of Departure, with Randy Vick and Martin Perdoux,
IATA Annual Conference, River Forest, IL, May 1996
At the Intersection of Pain and Beauty or The Whale, with Randy Vick, AATA
Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, November, 1995
Cauldron: Into the Pot with Thee, with Mariagnese Cattaneo and Cathy Malchiodi,
AATA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, November, 1994
4 X 3: Artist, Healer, Clinician, Teacher, with Mariagnese Cattaneo and
Cathy Malchiodi, AATA Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, November, 1992
Creating a Silence, with Dollie Hinch and Rosalind Wilcox, ARC Gallery,
Chicago, IL, July, 1991
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PUBLICATIONS
"Commentary on community-based art studios: Underlying principles." ART THERAPY: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association. 25(1), pp.11-12.
"Wielding the Shield: The Art Therapist as
Conscious Witness in the Realm of Social Action",
and "Facing Homelessness: A Community Mask Making
Project", in Art therapy
and social action
(2006) Frances Kaplan, ed. London: Jessica Kingsley.
"At the Crossroads of Terror and Beauty",
Poiesis. 8 pp 133-137 2006.
Art is a spiritual path. (2005) Boston: Shambhala.
"Art making as a spiritual path: The open studio process as a way to practice
art therapy", in Approaches to art therapy: Theory and technique,
2nd edition (2001)Judith Aron Rubin, ed., Philadelphia: Brunner-Routledge.
"Intention and creativity: Art as spiritual practice", in The soul of creativity.
(1999) Tona Pearce Myers, ed., Novato, CA: New World Library.
"Writers need not be loners", Viewpoint, ART THERAPY: Journal of the AATA.
13(1) pp 60-61.
"Coyote comes in from the cold: The evolution of the open studio concept", ART
THERAPY: Journal of the AATA. 12(3) pp 161-166.
Art is a way of knowing. (1995) Boston: Shambhala Publications.
"Artist in residence: An alternative to clinification for art therapists", ART
THERAPY: journal of the AATA. (1992). 9(1) pp 22-29.
"Guidelines for getting started in research", in A guide to conducting art
therapy research H. Wadeson, ed. (1992) Mundelein, IL, AATA.
"Annunciation", poem, Daughters of Sarah. October, 1991, Volume
17 #5
"A consideration of transference in art therapy", American Journal of Art
Therapy. (1988). 26, pp 113-119.
The
power of the image: A reconsideration of art as therapy. (1987). Ann Arbor,
MI: University Microfilms International.
"Wasted wealth: Thoughts on discontinuing AATA conference proceedings". Viewpoint.
ART THERAPY: Journal of the AATA. (1986). 3, 136.
"Integrating art therapy into an alcoholism treatment program". American
Journal of Art Therapy. (1985). 24, 10-13.
"Short term group art therapy", American Journal of Art Therapy.
(1983). 22, 93-97.
"The legacy of Margaret Naumburg". ART THERAPY: Journal of the AATA.
(1983). 22, 93-97
"Art Making in clinical training for conceptualization, integration, and self-awareness",
with H. Wadeson, Leonardo: International journal of culture, art and education.
(1983). 1, 5-6.
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BOOK REVIEWS
Moon journals: Writing, art, and inquiry through
focused nature study, by Joni Chancer and Gina Rester-Zodrow. AJAT.
(2000) 39, 29-30.
Desire and the female therapist: Engendered gazes in psychotherapy and art
therapy, by Joy Schaverian, AJAT, (2000) 38, 90-91.
Art-based research, by Shaun McNiff, ART THERAPY: Journal
of the AATA, (1999) 16, 155-156.
An encyclopedia of archetypal symbolism, by Beverly Moon, ed. AJAT
(1993) 31, 123-124.
Existential art therapy: The canvas mirror, by Bruce Moon, AJAT
(1991)
29 88-89.
Depth psychology of art, by Shaun McNiff, AJAT. (1990)
28, 115-116.
Using drawings in assessment and therapy, by Oster and Gould, AJAT.
26, 97.
The
personality of the therapist: Proceedings of the 1981 international congress of
psychopathology of expression, ed. Irene Jakab, AJAT, (1983).
21, 107.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Art Therapy Association, 1974-present
Illinois Art Therapy Association, 1980-present
International Expressive Arts Therapy Association,
2005-present
New England Art Therapy Association,
1975-1980, President, 1977-1979
Chicago Artist's Coalition, 1982-2003
Women's Caucus for Art, 1992-1996, 2006-Present
Oak Park Art League, 1992-present
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