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Welcome to the Illinois Art Therapy Association!
We are an active association looking to strengthen awareness of the field of art therapy and provide more opportunities for art therapists to connect.  In working towards these goals, we are looking to fill some empty positions.  By becoming involved with your local Illinois Art Therapy Association, you are [...]

An article about art therapy in Illinois that helps abused children reclaim their lives by the active IATA member
Heather Randazzo, MA, ATR-BC, LCPC.
click here to read a current art therapy article.

Oppose School and Human Services Budget Cuts in Illinois!
We need you to let the Governor and legislators know that
there must be NO CUTS to schools or human services in this year’s budget.
Please write to the Governor and your legislators today and let them know that your organization will
not support cuts to human services.
Go the CAPWIZ [...]

Val Newman, MAAT, LCPC, ATR is April’s featured artist.  Check out her portfolio

Art Therapy:  Awakening Awareness
American Art Therapy Association
41st annual Conference
November 3-7. 2010
Sacramento, California
For more information:  AATA Conference

Journey Towards Healing is delighted to announce our international conference: Trauma & Spirituality: An International Dialogue, 9-13th March 2011 at The Europa Hotel Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Our focus
To provide a local and international context for constructive dialogue and creative thinking about realities connected to ‘trauma and spirituality’, including the relationships between spirituality, religion, faith, conflict, violence, trauma and [...]

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Join us for this interdisciplinary conference that will reflect on ways that visual art and art making express, communicate and document violence in its many forms. hrough art exhibits, paper presentations and workshops, participants will address the influences and effects of visual art to address violence.
IATA is partnering with the Adler School of Professional Psychology [...]

Chicago Art Magazine http://chicagoartmagazine.com/ recently published an article on art therapy in Chicago. The article covers art therapy education and mentions sites in which art therapy is being practiced.  The article features quotes from Mary Andrus and Patrick Morrissey.
Find the article here.

In this issue…Community art making at River East; Work Project and Service Project are launched; Jimmy Bulosan leads an ethics panel; Harriet Wadeson has new publications; interview with Katy Barrington; symposiums and conferences mark the end of the academic year.
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