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This page lists schools and programs where one can obtain a degree or credential focusing on art and healing. Please use the contact information provided to obtain current information.
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Art-to-Earth
Superior, Wisconsin
(715) 394-8508
The Northland Center for Art and Ecopsychology encourages environmental awareness through art. While exploring the relationship between humans, the earth, and all living things, art fosters the development of intellectual, emotional, and spiritual growth that contributes to a society rooted in social responsibility and global awareness. Ecopsychology is concerned with development of a synergistic and sustainable relationship between humans and the nonhuman world for the benefit of earth as a whole. Through the University of Wisconsin, Superior, students can get their Master of Arts in Studio Art with a focus on Expressive Ecopsychology. http://www.art-to-earth.com/
California College of the Arts
Oakland, CA
(510) 594-3600
Offers a BFA program in community arts, which draws on the resources of the Center for Art and Public Life. This interdisciplinary program focuses on community-based arts practice and theory, with an emphasis on service learning, civic engagement, and issues in diversity. Students in the program will graduate with an understanding of how historical, social, economic, and political factors of communities relate to community art. They will also acquire the necessary skills, conceptual thinking, and professional practice to enable them to fulfill their creative potential and make art for, in, and with the community. http://www.cca.edu/academics/communityarts/
California Institute of Integral Studies: Expressive Arts Program
San Francisco, California
(415) 575-6100
The Expressive Arts Program at the California Institute for Integral Studies seeks to reawaken a true appreciation of the healing and whole-making power of the creative and expressive arts. Its mission is to apply this ancient knowledge to our modern context and find ways to integrate the power of the arts into our personal and professional lives. The Expressive Arts program offers a M.A. in Counseling Psychology with an Expressive Arts Therapy concentration, as well as a Certificate in Expressive Arts Consulting and Education, and intensive short courses, especially in the summer, which are offered to mental health professionals who want to integrate expressive arts therapy with their existing clinical practice. http://exa.ciis.edu/
California State Unversity's B.A. in Visual & Public Art
Seaside, California
(831) 582-3000
Integrates individual production and collaborative processes, skills and projects, and the expressive and analytical. Addresses issues of working in public space creating murals, sculptures, installations, book arts, painted and electronic billboards, light sculptures, large-scale digital and cyber art, time-based work, performance and environmental art, and public ceremonial works. Balance of studio and theory through a combination of core concept and skill courses, visiting artist experiences, independent learning opportunities and a community-based projects/service learning component. http://csumb.edu/site/x643.xml
Center for the Arts: Certificate Program in Arts in Prevention
Freehold, NJ
(732) 591-2362
The Center for the Arts offers a Certificate Program in Arts in Prevention - a joint venture with The Continuing Education and Professional Development Program of the School of Social Work, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey. This certificate program in Using the Expressive Arts in Prevention is intended to enhance the skills and knowledge of those professionals working with youth in various situations specifically on how the arts can be used in positive youth development and as part of a comprehensive prevention strategy. The certificate consists of 9 required courses plus 2 elective courses on a non-clinical basis with clinical components to choose from for those who require clinical hours. Courses can be taken on an individual basis separate from the certificate. The Center for the Arts believes that creativity and the arts are essential to every human being, that they provide for active participation in life, that everyone has the right and the ability to be creative. http://www.center4arts.org/page5.html
Chaplaincy Institute for the Arts and Interfaith Ministries (ChI)
Berkeley, California
(510) 843-1422
"Never has such a program been more needed, nor justified...You are in tune with a great tide in medicine: the return of spirituality." -Larry Dossey, MD, about the Chaplaincy Institute
The Chaplaincy Institute (ChI) offers an innovative and unique course of study that combines the spirtual and the creative. ChI offers ordination as an Interfaith Minister, Certificates in Spiritual Direction, and weekend intensives in Art and Spirituality. Past students have participated in everything from building prayer wheels in Shands Hospital in Florida to pilgrimaging to meet the Dalai Lama in India. http://www.chaplaincyinstitute.org/
College of the Atlantic (COA)
Bar Harbor, Maine
(207) 288-5015
The mission of this school is not only to understand relationships with the environment, but also to do something to improve them. All students enrolled major in Human Ecology, the study of our relationship with the environment. Students explore their own creative work, and immerse themselves in a diverse community of learners to discover and pursue their passions. Before graduating, all seniors create an original project that represents the culmination of their work. Some write novels or scientific research papers. Some create an art show or a new non-profit. http://www.coa.edu/html/about.htm
Emporia State University in Kansas: MA in Art Therapy
Emporia, Kansas
Emporia State University Division of Psycyology and Special Education offers a two-year M.S. in Art Therapy. http://www.emporia.edu/psyspe/athp.htm
European Graduate School (EGS) - Expressive Arts & Social Change Program
Saas Fee, Switzerland
This program trains participants to assist people in using the expressive arts to respond to and bring about social change. Work in this field can be carried out in a multitude of ways, including advocacy programs, community art-making, therapeutic arts projects, social activism and the use of the arts to respond to situations of crisis, conflict and social upheaval. The program emphasizes the sustainability of projects and the resilience of individuals, groups and communities. The arts are seen as resources for coping with critical situations and as providing frames for the expression of both the joy and the suffering of human life. Upon completion of the program, students will be awarded a Master of Advanced Professional Studies diploma (MAPS). The MAPS can also lead to further studies towards a Master of Arts or Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Please consult with the Program Director for information. http://expressiveartsandsocialchange.org/overview.html
Expressive Arts Training Institute
Newport Beach, CA
Dr. Jane Goldberg and The Expressive Arts Training Institute invite you to attend their year long Expressive Arts Therapy Training Program. The training provides an opportunity for creativity and healing, personal and professional growth, college credits, professional certification, and specific tools and techniques for immediate clinical application. http://www.expressiveartstraining.com/
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