People's Art

03/30/2026

🌿 Sometimes one of the only things we have power over is our perspective. Even a gloomy day, or a tough situation can be changed with radical positivity. 🌥️

03/21/2026

“I’d rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.” - Helen Frankenthaler

(Art by Helen Frankenthaler)

03/18/2026

How do you experience green?

03/05/2026

🌿 Sometimes wellness is slowing down, taking a breath and noticing the beauty around you.

⛰️ The atmosphere here in Southern Oregon can be very healing to the nervous system. From the mountains to the meadows, from the streams to the trees.

🌲 The connection between nature, creativity and healing is reflected in the People’s Art (creative arts therapy) program here in the Rogue Valley.

✨ Today’s Invitation:
Find a view that inspires you or brings you a sense of calmness. Take a picture and share with your community to keep the inspiration flowing.

02/26/2026

When words fall short, colors speak.🎨🩵

09/21/2025

The Creative’s Drama. Ever heard yourself or someone else say you are not creative, artist, musician, dancer, poet, actor….? It’s a pervasive victim attitude in our culture. I wonder how to work with that and support a shift to creator empowerment without rescuing or blaming.

09/21/2025

a full day of teaching about art-based psychological first aid by Delaine. This is a very sweet and very well produced regional art therapy symposium. A pleasure and an honor to be asked to present.

09/20/2025

I wish Southern Oregon schools were poised to follow up with a pre-art therapy program. Congrats to my colleague Ryan Arizona State University

For 15 years or so, the Intro to Art Therapy class I taught at SOU was the only UG education in art therapy offered in the entire West Coast. So many students have asked for more pre-art therapy education at SOU over the last two decades. I've offered my expertise and it never goes anywhere. Very little follow through even on a simple email from multiple departments.
Many attempts, zero follow through. Lots of excuses.

If you are a student or former student interested in the field of art therapy and wish you could get a solid foundation for entering graduate studies in art therapy (required to be an art therapist), get a message to the Art Department.

From Hurricane Katrina survivors to Alzheimer's patients, art therapy has proved a powerful form of healing. But because the practice blends both art and psychology, many undergraduate paths to a career in the field require students to pursue psychology first and art second (or vice versa).

09/07/2025

The Buckeye Art Therapy Asssociation (BATA) has it goin' on. What a wonderful symposium. Teaching and learning all over the place.

09/01/2025

Finishing slides and starting to practice for this workshop. The opportunity to think tank art-based psychological first aid with a group of smart, creative, passionate art therapists is exciting.

We are one week from our annual Symposium! Presenters are practicing and polishing their content, art supplies are being gathered, Ashland hotels are filling up, and our community of creative professionals is all abuzz with excitement over this year's timely, relevant theme: Art Therapy and Disaster Response! Have you registered yet? www.buckeyearttherapy.org/symposium_brochure

Our Pre-Conference course features a full day 7CEU workshop with Oregon art therapist Delaine Due, "Art Therapy-Informed Psychological First Aid: Enhancing Natural Disaster Response." Lunch is included in registration.

We kick off Keynote day with professor and author Joseph Scarce, PhD, ATR-BC, who will present "Art Therapy Disaster Response; Hope, Healing, & Humanity." Book signing to follow! Then choose from an assortment of paper presentation and workshops throughout the day, with 4 break out sessions in the morning, 4 after lunch (on your own), and 4 more in the late afternoon. Networking breaks with refreshments throughout the day. Explore Ashland and reconnect with friends and colleagues over dinner, then join us at the Coburn Art Gallery at Ashland University for the exhibition "Transcending Barriers Beyond Time: Visual Reminiscence of Older Adults with Chronic Illnesses Facilitated by Generative AI," where you can earn an additional CEU with tour of the exhibition and critical dialogue.

The Saturday program features 4 morning break-out sessions (including papers, panels, & workshops), the Ethics Plenary "Centering on Ethics in Supporting Migrants and Survivors of Political Violence," BATA's Annual Membership Meeting and Luncheon, and 6 more break-out sessions throughout the afternoon!
Hope you can join us!!!

08/17/2025