It’s the holiday season and one thing I like to do is put myself at the top of my gift giving list. Treat myself for working so hard all year round….not that I completely forget to think of myself the rest of the year but lets say I like to spread the giving to myself [...]
Category Archives: Apprentissage
Livres altérés/altered books
C’est définitivement une nouvelle tendance cette appropriation d’objet existant pour en faire autre chose. Plutôt qu’une toile vierge comme substrat ce sont divers objets qui sont rappropriés, remodelés, réorganisés, parfois déconstruits, altérés et reconstruits en autre chose. Un livre altéré ou altered book, c’est un livre existant, un livre qui a été publié qui sert [...]
DDS training
Anne Mills and Barry Cohen the research team behind the Diagnostic Drawing Series will be in Montreal in April 2009 for a two day seminar. The training made possible by the AATQ is open to art therapists and other mental health professionals. Complete details and registration form are available from the pdf document found here. [...]
Readings in the creative arts-therapies
There are few art therapy related publications out of Canada. You will find they are quite different in flavor, content and the audience they cater to. You can read fulltext articles from the following web places: Cheryl McLean publishes the: CCAHTE Journal . Cheryl Mclean is an art therapy graduate from Concordia University with a strong background in [...]
Transferable benefits from the arts
There are a number of educational studies that now show that involvement in making art has tremendous benefits, many of which can transfer to other areas of life. Catterall et all. (2002) summarized the findings of 62 research studies. They identified 84 distinguishable, valid effects of the arts among groups of children. Academic benefits were [...]
« Art as witness » conference
Mark your calendars and reserve early. Art as witness: Art, art therapy and trauma resolution is the title of a joint three day conference made possible here in Montreal, by the concerted efforts of the AATQ, CATA and the research group headed by Josée Leclerc PhD ATR-BC recent director of the Concordia Creative Arts therapies [...]
CATs@Concordia celebrate 25 years
On May 15th, Concordia’s Creative Arts Therapies graduate program is celebrating 25 years with a reception and performance by the participants from the Centre for Arts in Human Development. The creative arts therapy program evolved from the art education department beginning with a diploma in art therapy and went on to become an independent master [...]
