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The MPS Art Therapy Department at the School of Visual Arts,
in conjunction with the Visual Arts Foundation, announces our 25th Annual Art Therapy Conference:
ART & HEALTH: FOSTERING RELATIONSHIPS
Friday, October 16, 2009
9AM - 4PM
SVA Theatre
333 West 23 Street
New York, NY 10011
FEATURING KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Gussie Klorer, PhD, ATR-BC, LCSW, LCPC
AND SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS:
Ellen Speert, MEd, ATR-BC, REAT
Larry Norton, MD
All proceeds from the conference will go to the Ray Levine Art Therapy Scholarship Fund of the Visual Arts Foundation.
Cost:
General public: $75
General public (at the door): $80
SVA alumni and Non-SVA students: $50
SVA MPS Art Therapy Alumni: FREE
Current SVA On-site Supervisors: FREE
Current SVA students faculty and staff: FREE
Please make checks or money orders payable to: The Ray Levine Scholarship Fund and mail them to the Art Therapy Department, School of Visual Arts, 209 East 23 Street, NYC, 10010.
5 CECs available for ATR-BCs.
Attendees may pre-register for the event and pay at the door. To RSVP or for more information, please call 212.592.2610, or e-mail us at arttherapy@sva.edu.
Download conference registration form here.
PROGRAM INFORMATION:
Art & Health: Fostering Relationships
The MPS Art Therapy Department is committed to exploring the potential of art therapy within the community. This year, our annual conference will feature three special guest speakers, Gussie Klorer, Ellen Speert and Dr. Larry Norton. Each will be addressing the relationship between art and health and the important role this plays in our lives. We will be celebrating the 25th year of our conference, which will be held in the newly transformed SVA Theatre, redesigned by Milton Glaser.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Gussie Klorer, PhD, ATR-BC, LCSW, LCPC
Expressive Therapy Moments: Arts and Play with Severely Maltreated Children
This presentation will focus on how and why expressive therapies are successful for children with severe maltreatment and attachment disorders. Trauma, the brain and examples of treatment will be addressed.
Gussie Klorer is the director of the Graduate Art Therapy Counseling program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She maintains a private practice in art therapy, specializing in work with children with severe abuse and neglect histories living in foster care. Klorer is widely published, the author of Expressive Therapy with Troubled Children as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. She has served on the editorial boards of the Trauma and Loss Journal, the American Journal of Art Therapy, and Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association.
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER
Ellen Speert, MEd, ATR-BC, REAT
Art Therapy and Activism: Empowerment through the Creative Relationship
Art Therapy has traditionally treated clients within the context of their personal lives. Case studies will be presented showing how art therapy can engage adult clients with their communities through social activism. Helping clients actively address traumatic issues can be a form of empowerment, as they are able to explore the connection between their experiences and societal ills.
Ellen Speert has been practicing art therapy since 1980. She is former president of the San Diego Art Therapy Association, was the first United States representative to the International Networking Group, coordinating art therapists around the world, and designed and directed art therapy and expressive arts therapy programs at the University of California San Diego and National University. She has published articles on art therapy and appeared in magazines, newspapers, on radio and television, and has presented throughout the US, Canada and Europe. Speert currently directs the California Center for Creative Renewal, a garden retreat center, where she works with individuals, groups, organizations and spiritual communities.
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER
Larry Norton, MD
Art Therapy and Medicine: Dynamic Framework for Wellness
Medicine involves many dynamic relationships: between the health care team and patient, the patient and their social contacts (including family), and even the patient’s own physical, psychological, and spiritual selves. It is impossible to deliver quality medical care by attending to just one aspect of this complex network. Art in general, and art therapy in particular, are tools for the exploration of these dynamics and even their modulation with the goal of better emotional, social, and physical outcomes. This benefits not just the patient, but all participants in the patient’s integrated community, including the members of the heath care team.
Dr. Larry Norton, is Scientific Director of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF), and has served as chairman of the BCRF Medical Advisory Board since its inception in 1993. Dr. Norton is former president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and chair of the ASCO Foundation. A Presidential Appointee to the National Cancer Advisory Board of the NCI (1998-2004), he is the first incumbent of the Norna S. Sarofim Chair in Clinical Oncology at MSKCC and recipient of the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s 2004 David A. Karnofsky Memorial Award. Dr. Norton has served on or chaired governmental and professional organization committees as well as received numerous honorary visiting professorships. He is currently Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University and co-author of the Norton-Simon Model, which has broadly influenced cancer treatment and research for over 25 years.
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
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8:45 - 9:30AM
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Registration and Refreshments
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9:30 - 9:35AM
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Welcome and Opening Remarks from
Deborah Farber, Chair, MPS Art
Therapy Department
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9:35 -11:30AM
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Keynote Address
Gussie Klorer, PhD, ATR-BC, LCSW, LCPC
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11:30AM - 1PM
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Lunch Break
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1-2:30PM
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Special Guest Speaker
Ellen Speert, MEd, ATR-BC, REAT
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2:30-2:45PM
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Afternoon Break
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2:45 - 4PM
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Special Guest Speaker
Larry Norton, MD
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