35th Annual Illinois Art Therapy Conference
The Contemporary Landscape of Art Therapy
Saturday, November 7th, 2015
National Mexican Museum of Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Official Welcome from the Conference Chair!
This year’s conference seeks to create a forum to explore scope of practice in the field of art therapy. “Scope of practice” refers to procedures, actions, and processes that fall within the boundaries of a specific field. This conference will facilitate a multifaceted conversation around the methods, theories, and practices within which art therapists practice and create.
We are excited to introduce our opening and closing keynote speakers, Yasmine Awais and Gussie Klorer. Yasmine Awais is currently the Interim Director of Art Therapy Programs, Drexel University, Philadelphia and doctoral student at the Graduate Center, New York City. Yasmine Awais will share expectations, challenges, and frustrations along with discoveries of identity and acceptance from the lens of a second generation Asian American of mixed ethnicities and as a student, clinician, supervisor, and professor working primarily with persons in urban communities in the United States (New York City, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia) and internationally (Japan and Saudi Arabia). Gussie Klorer is a clinician, a professor, and the graduate program director for the Graduate Art Therapy Program, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Speaking from her experience in trauma-based art therapy, Gussie will explore a neuroscience perspective on how brain development is affected by severe trauma, and how changes in art created in therapy reflects the parts of the brain being activated during trauma recall. Tracking of the relational piece between therapist/client and client/other can be documented. The simple yet understated fact is that in evidence-based practice art therapy, the art is the evidence.
While the variety of all-day offerings hopes to encourage a day of enriching arts, psychology, and art therapy didactic and experiential learning experiences, the National Mexican Museum of Art also offers opportunities to view the current art exhibitions. For more information on current exhibitions please visit http://www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/*
We hope to see you there.
A special thanks to the Conference Committee for all of the hard work and dedication they put into this conference: Danielle Eichner, Samantha Stadlman, Meg Boyle, Rachel Harrison, TaKenya White, Marni Rosen, Ryan Noble, Sze-Chin Lee, Evelina Jagminaite, Rebecca DeGraw, and Barbara Fish.
Very Sincerely,
Julie Ludwick
IATA Conference Chair 2015.
*Please note attendees will not be permitted to view the Day of the Dead exhibit due to museum programs co-occurring use of the space.
The Contemporary Landscape of Art Therapy
Saturday, November 7th, 2015
National Mexican Museum of Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Official Welcome from the Conference Chair!
This year’s conference seeks to create a forum to explore scope of practice in the field of art therapy. “Scope of practice” refers to procedures, actions, and processes that fall within the boundaries of a specific field. This conference will facilitate a multifaceted conversation around the methods, theories, and practices within which art therapists practice and create.
We are excited to introduce our opening and closing keynote speakers, Yasmine Awais and Gussie Klorer. Yasmine Awais is currently the Interim Director of Art Therapy Programs, Drexel University, Philadelphia and doctoral student at the Graduate Center, New York City. Yasmine Awais will share expectations, challenges, and frustrations along with discoveries of identity and acceptance from the lens of a second generation Asian American of mixed ethnicities and as a student, clinician, supervisor, and professor working primarily with persons in urban communities in the United States (New York City, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia) and internationally (Japan and Saudi Arabia). Gussie Klorer is a clinician, a professor, and the graduate program director for the Graduate Art Therapy Program, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Speaking from her experience in trauma-based art therapy, Gussie will explore a neuroscience perspective on how brain development is affected by severe trauma, and how changes in art created in therapy reflects the parts of the brain being activated during trauma recall. Tracking of the relational piece between therapist/client and client/other can be documented. The simple yet understated fact is that in evidence-based practice art therapy, the art is the evidence.
While the variety of all-day offerings hopes to encourage a day of enriching arts, psychology, and art therapy didactic and experiential learning experiences, the National Mexican Museum of Art also offers opportunities to view the current art exhibitions. For more information on current exhibitions please visit http://www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/*
We hope to see you there.
A special thanks to the Conference Committee for all of the hard work and dedication they put into this conference: Danielle Eichner, Samantha Stadlman, Meg Boyle, Rachel Harrison, TaKenya White, Marni Rosen, Ryan Noble, Sze-Chin Lee, Evelina Jagminaite, Rebecca DeGraw, and Barbara Fish.
Very Sincerely,
Julie Ludwick
IATA Conference Chair 2015.
*Please note attendees will not be permitted to view the Day of the Dead exhibit due to museum programs co-occurring use of the space.
