As Creative Connections continues to develop (website coming soon!), we are thrilled to now have a beautiful logo to represent our collective. We look forward to future connections and collaborations with our community and are grateful to acknowledge Jenna Gregory as one of our first creative partners.

… a small sampling of professional development opportunities for art therapists in 2021.

These are the ideas of connection through an art therapy lens.

Susan and I share our expressive creations and appreciative reflections after attending the OATA 2020 experiential art making and mindfulness workshops in October.

This beautiful gesture of connection and sensory communication continues to move me to this day…

… the idea of creating art as a form of therapy and exploration of the self is not a new one.

Art, health (and wellbeing) are often interwoven, and during these stressful times related to the pandemic, connecting with art can connect us to ourselves…

“We want stories. In stories we connect, in stories we learn, in stories we are human … We are together, we are the same, we are connected beyond race and class and gender.” — Isabel Allende