38th Annual Illinois Art Therapy Conference
Art : Reconnect, Rethink, Refine
Saturday, February 9, 2019
8:30am-4:30pm
The Hope Institute Learning Academy
1628 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL 60612
Lecture Descriptions
2019 IATA Conference Presenters
heArt therapy at Comer (Lecture)
Yasuko Yoshihara ATR-BC, LCPC
Bio: Yasuko (Sue) Yoshihara who graduated at SAIC in 2000, has been a full-time art therapist for 15 years at the U of C Comer Children's Hospital. Coordinating the Art Therapy Program and the Internship under the Child Life Program. Previously worked at Children's Connection, Chicago Abused Women Coalition and Vision of Psychology Association
Description: Therapeutic art activity have been utilized in the recovery process at Comer Children’s Hospital. Although art making is a natural way for children to express themselves, presenter has observed that some children seem to have difficulties in finding ways to do so due to their fear of the unfamiliar environment and the daily physical/emotional pains. The presentation shows how she maneuver, adaptes, inspires and maintains the flow of creativity in order to achieve positive results during their hospitalization.
FROM PAGE TO STAGE: from page to stage the benefit of using art history in an art therapy setting (Lecture)
Reverend Kurt Fondriest MFA, ATR, REAT
Bio: Reverend Kurt Fondriest holds a Ph.d in holistic ministries from the American Institute of Holistic Theology. He earned his MFA from SAIC and his BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design. Kurt has been working at Misericordia Home in Chicago as an expressive art therapist for over 28 years. Kurt also is an active metaphysical painter and storyteller. His work has been published in numerous anthologies and periodicals on the power of healing by using the expressive arts. His latest article "A Monet minute" can be read in the expressive art therapy journal. He is a strong advocate for individuals living with chronic pain as he himself has fibromyalgia and has been living with this condition for nearly 35 years. Kurt exhibits his work in Chicago at The Life Force Art Center. Previously, Kurt was a presenter at the Illinois Art Therapy Conference, Ohio Art Therapy Conference and the National Expressive Art Therapy Conference. His art has been exhibited at the De young art museum in San Francisco along with Galleries in Chicago and throughout the Midwest. Kurt has art work in numerous private collections, two which he shares with both Monet and Chagall.
Description: This presentation will offer the opportunity to look at famous iconic pieces of art and see how these images can be brought to life to enable us the opportunity to inter-act with these great pieces of art. Through the use of expressive education on the history of art, a personal rendition of iconic art pieces will be offered to the individual. Being able to connect with famous artists of the past will enable the individual to experience the inner artist of the present.
Kintsukuroi Bowl Mending: Discovering Meaning in Life’s Imperfections (Workshop)
Elizabeth Fotopoulos LCPC, ATR-BC
Bio: Elizabeth is a board certified art therapist, a clinical counselor, and graduate from Adler Universities Doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision program. She has been providing counseling and art therapy services since 2012 and has served a variety of populations within both community mental health and private practice. Currently Elizabeth is core faculty at Adler University in their Masters of Counseling and Art Therapy program, she provides external supervision to therapist who are both art therapists and clinical mental health counselors, she is a active researcher in art-based supervision, and continues to provide weekly counseling services through her private practice in Oak Park, IL.
Description: Kintsukuroi "golden repair" is the Japanese art of mending broken ware using lacquered mixed with a precious metal. This act of mending correspondences the philosophy of seeing and embracing the beauty in in all objects and its history. Participants attending this workshop seek to gain awareness to the self and will leave with an altered sense of what “beauty” is and what recovery can look like.
The Art is the Answer: The Practicing Art Therapist Within a Multidisciplinary Treatment Team (Workshop)
Elizabeth Hill, ATR-BC, LCPC & Melissa Hedlund Nelson, ATR-BC, LCPC, SEP, CADC
Description: It is important for the practicing art therapist to feel confident about the role they play within the multidisciplinary treatment team and to fell supported in their clinical work. Participants will have the opportunity for artmaking to explore areas of discord in their work and to develop a plan to integrate and navigate the multidisciplinary treatment team. This workshop will help participants create a seamless system of art therapy care as a member of a multidisciplinary treatment team.
Efficacy of group art therapy with veterans: A comparison of an outpatient program versus an intensive outpatient program (Lecture)
Stephanie Owen, LPC, ATR
Bio: Presenter graduated from the Adler School of Professional Psychology in 2009 with a master’s degree in counseling psychology and art therapy. She has worked at Rush University Medical Center since 2010 providing art therapy to children and adolescents within the therapeutic day school, inpatient psychiatric and pediatric units. Most recently, she began working with veterans and their families at Road Home Program.
Description: Veterans who receive services from the Road Home Program affiliated with Rush University Medical Center may enter into through program in a variety of ways. The two most common entry points are through an outpatient treatment setting or an Intensive Outpatient Program. This presentation will outline what role group art therapy plays on both ends of this spectrum as well as how directed versus non-directed groups affect treatment outcomes using self-report data collected on surveys within each setting. Results suggest that non-directed, studio base art therapy groups appear to have a more positive impact.
Dissertation Research Presentation: The Effect of Art-Based Supervision on Reflexivity and Subsequent Development of Non-Art-Based Counselors (Lecture)
Elizabeth Fotopoulos LCPC, ATR-BC
Bio: Elizabeth is a board certified art therapist, a clinical counselor, and graduate from Adler Universities Doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision program. She has been providing counseling and art therapy services since 2012 and has served a variety of populations within both community mental health and private practice. Currently Elizabeth is core faculty at Adler University in their Masters of Counseling and Art Therapy program, she provides external supervision to therapist who are both art therapists and clinical mental health counselors, she is a active researcher in art-based supervision, and continues to provide weekly counseling services through her private practice in Oak Park, IL.
Description: This lecture will present dissertation research data that looked at how art-based supervision impacted counselors reflexivity and subsequent development. Using a phenomenological methodology, interviews explored ten participant experiences, six art-based supervisors and 4 non-art-based counselors/supervisees. In total twelve major themes were found with introspection being the most significant theme throughout.
The Inner Mandala (Workshop)
Lisa D’Innocenzo, MFA, ATR, LCPC
Bio: Lisa trained as a fiber artist at SAIC and the University of Wisconsin before graduating from SAIC’s MAAT program. She has worked as an art therapist in inpatient psychiatric hospitals for almost a decade, returning to teach art therapy graduate students at SAIC for several years. She is currently part of a group practice that specializes in the integration of spirituality and psychotherapy.
She presents regularly at professional conferences, drawing on her experience of working with acute mental illness in marginalized and oppressed populations.
Lisa is a professional editor of academic papers and books, and an occasional exhibiting artist. She considers herself a person-centered activist: an instigator of quiet, internal revolutions.
Description: The “inner mandala” is an expression of the maker’s emotional landscape. Drawing on intuitive and meditative practices, participants will learn to view the mandala as a dynamic process rather than a static, predetermined goal. Through this process, the maker will be able to observe their awareness of physical or emotional discomfort, while shifting and tending to it through active engagement in art making.
Open Studio Project (Workshop)
Open Studio Project – Patti Vick
Bio: Patti Vick earned a BA in Anthropology from The Colorado College and an MFA in Visual Communication from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After several years of working as a graphic designer, she rediscovered the joys of expressive art making through Open Studio Project (OSP) in Evanston, IL. Patti facilitates Connecting to the Creative Process classes at OSP and helps with the facilitator training program. “The Open Studio Process allows me to use art making for self-care, meditation, and guidance.”
Description: The Open Studio Project is a non-for-profit organization that provides a dynamic, award-winning arts programming in a welcoming atmosphere of supportive non-interference - free of all comment and critique. In this workshop, an Open Studio Project facilitator will invite you to reconnect with your own creativity while making art alongside others. Our unique art and writing process empowers you to bring meaningful change into your life and out to your community.
TBA (Lecture)
Juan-Carlos Perez
Case Study: The Cairn Project: clay workshops and installations to bring the light of compassion to the darkness of loss (Lecture)
Corinne D. Peterson, MSW, CSW
Bio: Corinne D. Peterson, MSW, CSW, is a ceramic sculptor based in Chicago. She founded and led the Cairn Project, holding clay workshops and installing exhibits that addressed trauma and hope.
Description: The presenter will discuss The Cairn Project: a three-year project she developed and led to use clay workshops and installations to help heal trauma in people of varied ages and backgrounds. Workshop participants shaped a “rock” form to hold their personal trauma and a white porcelain “token” to represent their inner light. In several installations the tokens were suspended over the piled clay rocks, becoming light over dark. The community impact began with the workshop group, continued in the installation of the work of over 500 participants, and expanded to include all who witnessed the installation.
The presenter will discuss ways anyone can adapt the plan to use within their own family groups, friend groups, or client groups.
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