39th Annual American Art Therapy Conference and 40th Anniversary
Nov. 19-23, 2008, Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio
40th Annual American Art Therapy
Conference
Dallas, Texas 2009
38th Annual American Art Therapy Association Conference
"The Art of Connecting: From Personal to Global"
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Albuquerque, New Mexico
November 14-18, 2007
AATA’s 40th Anniversary and 39th Annual Conference, Nov. 19-23, 2008, Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio
41st Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas
(time and place TBA)
AATA 37th ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2006
New Orleans, Louisiana
Art Therapy
Reaching Out and Rebuilding Our Communities
November 15-19
Hilton Riverside
New Orleans, Louisiana
Featuring
Elizabeth Birch, spokesperson for the Rosie O'Donnell Foundation will be speaking about building communities and Rosie O'Donnell's project funding art therapists and art supplies to work in the hurricane devastated area from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.
Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D., internationally renowned expert in traumatreatment, theory and research will be part of the AATA's Research Committee's "Conference within a Conference."
March 29, 2007, 10:36AM
Japan gives $200K to New Orleans museum
By STACEY PLAISANCE Associated Press Writer
© 2007 The Associated Press
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NEW ORLEANS — A region of Japan devastated by a 1995 earthquake donated $200,000 to the New Orleans Museum of Art for programs to help children cope with the post-Hurricane Katrina devastation.
The donation — celebrated Wednesday with a troupe of Japanese street performers — is intended to pay for art therapy sessions, field trips and special programs for children and their families.
"It is art, among other things, missed and needed by children in devastated areas who have sustained deep psychological wounds," said Masaru Sakato, the Consul General of Japan in New Orleans.The donor, the Prefecture of Hyogo, knows well the struggles of recovering from a natural disaster and the toll it takes on children. A 7.3-magnitude earthquake ripped through Hyogo's port city of Kobe in 1995, killing nearly 6,500 people.
Like Katrina, the quake demonstrated the vulnerability of modern cities to natural disasters. The United States was among the countries that delivered relief to the Kobe area following the 1995 quake, and Wednesday's donation was a small way the people of Japan wanted to give back, Sakato said.After discussions with museum officials a year ago about New Orleans' needs following Katrina, the Prefecture of Hyogo agreed to help fund an art project dedicated to nurturing the creative and emotional well-being of New Orleans children.
"We believe that with its unique projects dedicated to the children, NOMA will play a special role in the recovery process of this region," Sakato said.
During a ceremony Wednesday, Japanese performers beat on drums, tooted horns and sang to children and others gathered at the museum. The group's performance, which included such Japanese instruments as a three-stringed guitar known as a samisen, was to bring the city luck, health, wealth and strength.
The group, called U-Stage, will perform at various schools and venues around the city through Friday.
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AATA Responds to Hurricane Katrina
Dear Colleagues,
I am sure you feel as horrified and helpless as I do in witnessing the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. Many of our art therapy colleagues, our friends and families live in the Gulf Coast area. It is agonizing to learn that so many have yet to be accounted for. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the survivors and to all who are in need of putting the pieces of their lives back together again.
Right now, everyone can help with this horrendous disaster by contributing funds to the Red Cross and other relief organizations. They are in desperate need of more financial resources to help with the resettlement of the survivors. Please give if you can, at: http://arc.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main&s_src=splashpagebu . The American Red Cross also is looking for mental health workers to help the survivors of the hurricane. If you have the Red Cross Disaster Relief training and can offer your help, go to http://www.redcross.org for more information.
If you are feeling at a loss to help in some other way, you may want to look to local relief efforts that are being organized in your own community, through churches, schools, and agencies. We are all witnessing the incredible creativity and generosity of people coming together to help to solve huge problems with whatever skills and resources they have.
AATA is in the process of posting information on our website (www.arttherapy.org ) so that art therapists can learn more about the impact of Hurricane Katrina and mental health concerns in the aftermath of a disaster. As we have already started to plan our 2006 conference to take place in New Orleans, the AATA Board of Directors is monitoring the situation very closely and will get information out to everyone as it becomes available. Please note that this year's November 2005 conference is located in Atlanta and is not affected by the disaster.
We know there is much work ahead and also that art therapists will be among those rebuilding lives, families, and communities. Many thanks to all of you in advance for your generous response.
Regards,
Lynn Kapitan, PhD, ATR-BC, President, American Art Therapy Association
Dear Colleagues,
The American Art Therapy Association Research Committee is pleased to
extend the following invitation:
Art therapists who work with people diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder are invited to take part in a special Forum on Art Therapy
Practice with PTSD at the upcoming AATA conference. You do not have to
be a researcher to make a useful contribution to this Forum. Invited
participants will give a 5 min. overview of their treatment approaches
(not a single case study). If you work with survivors of combat trauma,
we are particularly interested in hearing from you.
The Forum is organized by the AATA Research Committee with the goal of
collecting and describing the different approaches to PTSD. It is part
of the Research Committee’s work on the AATA’s goal to support a
multicenter study on the effectiveness of art therapy.
We are seeking concise information on the interventions used (media,
task, theoretical orientation), as well as general information about
clients, therapists, and sites. For more information on the most useful
points to include in the profile of your work, for help in preparing to
present, and to request a presentation slot, please contact Anne Mills,
ATR-BC, at <amills@gwu.edu> or (202) 994-3974.
Even if you cannot attend the AATA conference, you are strongly
encouraged to participate by submitting information on your work in
advance. Please submit your information to Anne Mills by September
15th, and it will be presented on your behalf at the Forum. The Forum
on Art Therapy Practice with PTSD at the AATA conference is scheduled
for Saturday, November 19, 12:15 to 1:00, at the AATA conference in
Atlanta, Georgia.
Please feel free to forward this message to others. Thank you in
advance for sharing your approach to PTSD with us at the upcoming
conference!
Sincerely,
Anne Mills, MA, ATR-BC, LPC
on behalf of Dr. Patricia St. John, Chair, Research Committee
AATA Conference
November 10-14, 2004
Town & Country Hotel
San Diego, California
Gaylynn Cleavenger and Vicki Williamson
Eva Szego and Pat Grajkowski
Jocelyne Lauzon and Linda McCarley
Pati and Don Eckhardt
Margaret and Larry Wheeler
November 19-23, 2003 Chicago, Illinois
American Art Therapy Association, Inc. (AATA) 34th Annual Conference
"The Creative Response: Art Therapy'sWitness to Our Times"
Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois
What a great time we had!!!
Cay Drachnik and Pat Grajkowski
Roberta Shoemaker-Beal, Vicki Williams, Maripat Munley
Barbara Ball, Susan Dubois, Linda McCarley, Phylis Tomlinson
Vicki Williams, Pat Grajkowski, Maripat Munley
