Students!

Our students have been busy presenting! The American Art Therapy Association (AATA) had its conference in November and several students presented.

Denise Malis presented a paper on "Gendered Landscapes: The Impact of Social Construct on the Female Art Therapist" and was on a panel titled "Positive Images Strategies, towards Agency, Insight, and Reflection: An Art Committee Presentation."

Jill Wargolet co-presented "Within Castle Walls: Art Therapy in Medical Healthcare Settings."

Amy Morrison was on a panel about Undergraduate Art Therapy. Her segment of the panel was on "Relational and Transformative Education Through Arts Based Learning for Undergraduates."

Chris Belkofer presented on "Art Therapy and Neuroscience."

Well done!

The Expressive Therapies Summit was held in New York City. PhD students Yehuda Berman, Nicole Hahna, Daniel Hyams, Craig Haen, Becky Fleetwood, and Rachel Brandoff attended and presented. PhD Faculty members, Mitchell Kossak, Karen Estrella, and Julia Byers were also there.

Daniel Hyams and Becky Fleetwood

Student Rachel Brandoff with pioneer Judy Rubin.

AMTA Conference

Here are some photos from the American Music Therapy Conference which was held in Cleveland, OH. Many doctoral students attended and presented. 

Jean Nemeth and Julie Andring performed on stage with Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer! The ukulele is the new hot instrument in MT. Julie will be doing some adjunct teaching at Anna Maria College in Paxton, MA in Spring '11

Nicole Hahna (far right) was there with some of her students from Slippery Rock University. Nicole co-presented a 5 hour CMTE on Feminist Pedagogy in MT.

Krystal Demaine was also in attendance and busy thinking about her pilot study!

I was there (far right) and did some celebrating with other AMTA Past Presidents.