1st Edition
Museum-based Art Therapy A Collaborative Effort with Access, Education, and Public Programs
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface Mitra Reyhani Ghadim and Lauren Daugherty
Chapter 1. The Power of Museums for Therapeutic Reparation
Carolyn Brown-Treadon
Chapter 2. Exploring Museum-based Art Therapy: A Summary of Existing Programs
Ashley Hartman
Chapter 3. Creating a Community Partnership for Lasting Change: Museum Art Therapy with Juvenile Offenders
Paige Scheinberg and Kathy Dumlao
Chapter 4. Museum-based Art Therapy: A Collaborative Effort with Access, Education, and Public Programming
Mitra Reyhani Ghadim
Chapter 5. A Bi-National Participatory Project with Families Affected by Autism in the Museum Art Therapy Context
Michelle López Torres and Mitra Reyhani Ghadim
Chapter 6. Collaborating Organizations Help Interns Light Up the Panorama of the City of New York
Vida Sabbaghi
Chapter 7. ARTogether: A Possibility of Therapeutically Informed Programming in a Museum Setting
Sarah Pousty
Chapter 8. Museum of Fine Arts Boston’s Artful Healing: Putting the ART in Partnership
Alice Garfield
Chapter 9. People Inside Museums: One Hands-on Artmaking Room in Context
Rachel Shipps
Chapter 10. There’s Always Room at the Table: The Art Hive of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Stephen Legari
Chapter 11. Museum as Therapeutic Space: Centralizing the Experiences of People of Color
Chloe Hayward
Chapter 12. Musings on Healing, Museums, and Disability
Marie Clapot
Chapter 13. The Role of Museum Collections in Therapeutic Work
Lauren Daugherty
Chapter 14. Practical Methods and Strategies
Lauren Daugherty and Mitra Reyhani Ghadim
Biography
Mitra Reyhani Ghadim, DAT, ATR-BC, LCAT, is an art therapist, author, and educator. She worked as a museum art therapist for nearly a decade, creating several art therapy programs for various populations.
Lauren Daugherty, LMHC, ATR-P, is an art therapist at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University Bloomington where she established the first museum art therapy program at a university museum in the U.S.
"This richly diverse text documents the exciting partnership that museums and community-based art therapy is creating at the intersection of inclusivity, accessibility, wellness, and education. At its center is the shifting power of museums to provide restorative spaces of reparation and reimagination. A wealth of information details the formation of effective programs and models, strategies for collaboration, critical reflection, and engaging activities and processes. This text will be celebrated as an invaluable guide for multiplying museum-based arts and wellness programs that strengthen communities." —Lynn Kapitan, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM, is founder, professor, and director of the Professional Doctor of Art Therapy program at Mount Mary University
