Day 2

Public Practice Art Therapy

February 19, 2023
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Fiber Crafts: Care Pedagogy and Public Art Therapy

Savneet Talwar, Shelly-Goebl-Parker,
and Lauren Leone

Savneet Talwar, Ph.D., ATR-BC is a Professor in the graduate art therapy and counseling program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her current research examines feminist politics, critical theories of difference, social justice and questions of resistance.  Using an interdisciplinary approach, she is interested in community based art practices; cultural trauma; performance art and public cultures as they relate to art therapy theory, practice and pedagogy. She is the author of Art Therapy for Social Justice: Radical Intersection and has published in Arts in Psychotherapy, Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, and Gender Issues in Art Therapy.  She is also the founder of the CEW (Creatively Empowered Women) Design Studio, a craft, sewing, and fabrication enterprise for Bosnian and South Asian women at the Hamdard Center in Chicago. She is the past Associate Editor of Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association.

Shelly Goebl-Parker, ATR-BC, is an artist, board-certified art therapist, licensed clinical social worker, certified diversity and Associate Professor who has worked with children, youth, and families in residential, education and community settings for over 30 years. She has trained art therapy counselors at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville for over 25 years teaching several courses including research methods, creative process, counseling techniques, fieldwork, social and cultural dimensions and arts in community development. Her scholarship has engaged research based practice inspired by Reggio Emilia and other early childhood educators, liberation pedagogy, training and support for artists in public practice, community development and pedagogy with the art hives model.

Lauren Leone (she/her), DAT, ATR-BC, LMHC is an artist, board-certified art therapist, and licensed mental health counselor working with art therapy participants in clinical and community-based settings in Somerville and Boston, MA. She has been an art therapy educator for a decade and her research interests include the unique therapeutic benefits of craft materials and media for art therapy practice, socially engaged craft practices, and how craft activism can support art therapy practitioners and participants in being change agents. Lauren is the editor of Craft in Art Therapy: Diverse Approaches to the Transformative Power of Craft Materials and Methods. She explores themes of identity, connection, and communication through drawing, textiles, and mixed media in her art, and facilitates collaborative/community art projects with the Crafting Change community art therapy project.
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Making Space for Mutual Care: How to Start and  Sustain a Public Practice in the Creative Arts Therapies

Rachel Chainey

Rachel Chainey is a mother, art therapist, social entrepreneur, educator, and multi-tasking artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, QC. She obtained her MA in Creative Art Therapies from Concordia University (2018), prior to which she has collected an eclectic undergraduate and experiential background in the intersecting fields of Cultural Animation, Social Entrepreneurship, Studio Arts, Psychology, Graphic Design and Communications. This ever-expanding creative toolbox is put to use through her Public Practice Art Therapy work as the Art Hives HQ and Network Coordinator (since 2014). Rachel serves as the Vice-President of the Quebec Art Therapists’ Association (since 2020), was the Conference Chair for the Canadian Art Therapy Association in 2018, and is a part-time faculty member at the Winnipeg Holistic Expressive Art Therapies Institute (since 2022). She is passionate about people’s stories and creativity, and specifically interested in developing ways in which we can live and work with more mutual care, creating sustainable futures for all living beings.
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Community Art Therapy: Theory and Practice

Emily Nolan

Dr. Emily Goldstein Nolan (she/they) is a board certified, licensed art psychotherapist, professional counselor, and a professor of practice in the Creative Arts Therapy program at Syracuse University in New York. Dr. Nolan has presented nationally and internationally, is a qualitative researcher, and has written many academic publications. Her specialties include working creatively and somatically with people and communities who have experienced trauma.
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The Portable Wellbeing Studio: Bringing Art Therapy Where It Is Needed

Ella Bryant and Alex Burr

Ella Bryant is co-founder of The Portable Wellbeing Studio, an art studio on wheels that provides art therapy where it's needed. She is a dual-experience art psychotherapist, having been both a user and provider of mental health services. She is self-employed and does both individual and group work. She has experience working as an art psychotherapist with adults in psychiatric wards, supported housing, universities, and an artistic, therapeutic community. She is a practising artist who uses darkroom photography with found objects to show unsteady states of mind. She also works as an art workshop facilitator and has 15 years of experience running workshops for galleries, festivals, recovery colleges, museums and schools.
 
Alex Burr is co-founder of The Portable Wellbeing Studio, an art studio on wheels that provides art therapy where it's needed. She has experience working as an art psychotherapist with children, adolescents and families, both in the NHS and the third sector and working-age adults in the community setting. Prior to becoming an art psychotherapist, Alex trained and worked as a secondary school teacher and worked in community development, running community-based workshops and arts in health projects. She has over 12 years of experience as a practising artist/maker specializing in textiles and continues to practise art making in her home studio. She participates in regular exhibitions and is part of an eco-art therapy group.
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Expressive Arts for Sustainable Activism: Self-Care, Self-Awareness and Self-Empowerment with Art Therapy and Somatic Experiencing®

Atira Tan

With over nineteen years of experience working with trauma – informed approaches alongside art, Somatic Experiencing, yoga and mindfulness, Atira has a deep commitment and passion in empowering and healing women and girls globally from the inside out. Hailing from Singapore, she has a deep understanding about Asian cross-cultural women’s issues through her own journey of recovery and empowerment from gender discrimination, sex trafficking and domestic violence.
Since 2004, Atira has set up numerous clinical art therapy and trauma recovery programs, researching the benefits of art therapy, somatic therapies, yoga, mindfulness and ritual in trauma recovery and sexual abuse, from the refugee camps in the jungles of Burma, earthquake hit areas in Nepal, to the wide open spaces of rural Aboriginal communities in the desert of Australia.
In addition to her work at Art to Healing, Atira has worked as a clinician and supervisor in Australia and the Asia – Pacific region in the contexts of psycho-social care, mental health services, disaster relief, community health and as an higher educator in Transpersonal Art Therapy in Australia.
A current Ph.D. candidate in Expressive Art Therapies (EXA) at EGS in Switzerland, Atira has been featured on TED X and spoken at numerous international conferences as an advocate against child sex slavery. Her written work on art therapy and sex trafficking has been published by Jessica Kingsley (2012), Routledge (2020) and international peer-reviewed journals.
Presenter's site: www.arttohealing.org
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Life as Medicine: Circle of Indigenous Healing Arts

Fyre Jean Graveline, Jean Tait, 
Chris Larsen, and Louisa Lamonthe

Dr. Fyre Jean Graveline is a two-spirited resilient survivor, a Métis Grandmother, healer, heARTist, activist, and educator. Fyre  specialises in creating a sustainable expressive arts healing practice through an Indigenous, eco-arts-based lens. Working in education and social work for over forty years, she/they  have consistently challenged individuals and organisations to examine their oppressive, eurocentric, patriarchal attitudes and practices. In addition to this, Fyre is the author of Circle Works: Transforming Eurocentric Consciousness (Fernwood 1998) and Healing Wounded Hearts (Fernwood 2005).  Still emerging is the newest book LIFE as Medicine: Creating TransFormative Change.  Being a knowledge keeper and community activist, Fyre Jean is an incredibly powerful and grounding person to talk with.

Jean Tait’s ancestry is of Saulteaux (Ojibwe) and Celtic descent, whose lineage can be traced to her great-great-great-grandfather, Chief Jacob Berens, who led the negotiations and signed Treaty No. Five in 1875. Prior to training as an art therapist at the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute (KATI) in Nelson, British Coumbia, Jean exhibited her paintings based on sacred rock art (petroglyphs and pictographs), for over 20 years in Canada and abroad.
With a specialization in trauma, grief, and strategies for change, Jean has facilitated individual sessions, groups, and workshops and cultural groups in these areas. She has founded and facilitated
several community drop-in art studios as outreach projects which have included inner city and youth facilities.
Jean is a Registered Art Therapist member of the Canadian Art Therapy Association (CATA) and a professional member of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA). Jean has also been an instructor in post-secondary education for Indigenous-based art therapy and part of the founding leadership team for LIFE as Medicine: Circle of Indigenous Healing Arts.
Presenter's site: artcanheal.ca

Chris Larsen is an award winning Manitoba Métis artist and art therapist. Embedded into her soul is the land, water and forest.  Conserving the natural environment has always been a compelling mission, as has sharing her love of art and nature through workshops and retreats at her River's Edge Studio.
Presenter's site: www.chrislarsen.ca

Louisa Lamonthe is a Swampy Cree Woman from Treaty 5 in Manitoba, Canada, a retired Palliative Care Nurse of 30 years,  a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She is currently nearing completion of her Indigenized Art Therapy Dual Diploma Program at Wheat Institute. As a respected Elder and Knowledge Holder she a Grandmother in residence for a PTSD Trauma Therapy program and sits with the Circle of Sages for an Indigenous Community NGO.
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