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We have art so that we shall not
die of reality. - Nietzsche
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Resources
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Discussion
Groups
The
American [Visual] Art Therapy Association, Inc.
ATA is the leading authority on the
therapeutic use of the visual arts. AATA sets the standards for the
education and practice of art therapy and promotes the profession through
educating the public and influencing public policy. AATA is founded on the
beliefs: That making art is healing and life enhancing; That creativity
benefits the human condition; That cultural proficiency is essential; That
professional integrity and competency is of utmost importance when serving
the public.
[visual]
Art Therapy Books & Research Resources From Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Scores of books and research oriented
publications are featured in this web directory 
[Visual]
Art Therapy
This site, from The National Coalition of
Arts Therapies Associations, offers a nice, concise overview of the field of
Visual Arts Therapy.
Arts
in Therapy Webpage
This is a modest website but it does offer an
opportunity to join an arts therapy e-mail based discussion group.
Art
Therapy Forum
Web based discussion list created by Danny
Sofer
Artforce
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International Union for Art Education
Research, Art Therapy Research, and Studio Arts Research in the Visual Arts.
This site includes numerous discussion forums as well as journal articles,
artwork, etc. This is an attractive and
useful web page.
British Association of Art
Therapists
Los
Angeles Institute for Art Therapy
LAIAT, the Los Angeles Institute for Art
Therapy, supports a belief in the healing nature of the arts and welcomes
therapists and allied professionals to experience in-depth views of the
expressive arts as a valuable treatment modality. LAIAT's training programs
and Art Therapy Certificate program complement and support professional
expertise and are available to licensed clinicians and professionals and to
interns and trainees who are currently pursuing their education in school,
training and internship. This is an interesting site, especially in its
focus on further training for those already in the health professions.
A Matter of
Perception
Gallery of art by people with disabilities, from a juried
exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art, Community Gallery. Portland,
Maine. Extensive online galleries.
The
National Coalition of Arts Therapies Associations
"The National Coalition of
Arts Therapies Associations (NCATA), founded in 1979, is an alliance of
professional associations dedicated to the advancement of the arts as
therapeutic modalities. NCATA represents over 8000 individual members of six
creative arts therapies associations."
Sandplay Therapists
of America (STA)
Nonprofit organization established to train, support, and promote
professional development in sandplay therapy based on the theories of
C.G. Jung.
Visual Arts Resources for those
With Disabilities
Association
of Foot and Mouth Painting Artists Worldwide
Seventeen mouth and foot painting artists
throughout Europe got together in 1956 in order to make their mutual idea
come true – an organization that would stand by handicapped artists and
get them the recognition they deserved as artist as well as financial
independence. This site is full of resources including a well developed
gallery space.
Creativity
Explored of San Francisco
Creativity Explored is a "nonprofit
visual arts center for people with developmental disabilities." The
site features an online gallery and surfers can purchase artwork directly
from the web store.
Inspire
Website
This Australian-Based resource, makes its aim, "to
provide a place where eligible people can show examples of their own
creative work while also looking at other's efforts. Contributors don't have
to be professional artists, and contributions don't have to fit an
established fine arts category (though we love them too). Creativity
encompasses any field where your imagination and the choices you make along
the way result in the final product - activities like gardening and cooking
are included here, as are activities like writing down your reviews of the
things you use, see or participate in, taking a photo of your dog, writing a
letter expressing your opinions about something, and so on.......".
Navigating
the Body
This website is produced by a collective of
four women suffering from chronic pain. They produce their art as part of
the theraputic process....and exciting art it is! This may be one of the
most beautiful sites on the internet and it shows what can be done in the
web art medium. The site is image intensive though so it may be slow loading
on your computer.
Worth the wait though.
What
is Disability: Reclaiming Self Through Art?
All of the participants in this Colorado
exhibition are artists with disabilities. Most of the artists address their
particular disability while others make little or no reference to it. The
mediums in which these artists produce work include painting, photography,
sculpture, fiber art, computer imaging and poetry. A number of works are
displayed in this web documentation of the exhibit.
Fine Arts and the Blind
Art Beyond Sight - National Exhibits by Blind
Artists
"National
Exhibits by Blind Artists, Inc., is a Philadelphia-based nonprofit
organization dedicated to showing the work of blind artists. National
Exhibits by Blind Artists, was founded in Philadelphia in the belief that
talented blind artists deserve the same recognition as writers, musicians
and other sighted artists. The primary objectives are to educate the public
with the quality of work by blind artists, and to create a demand in the
professional field of art, furthering the careers of blind artists and
making them part of the mainstream of life."
Art
For the Blind
"The Education Department at the Art
Gallery of Ontario was approached by the SNOW (Special Needs Opportunity
Windows) Project to participate in development of resource material for
teachers who have partially sighted and visually impaired students
integrated in their classes. The AGO has collaborated with SNOW on the
development of a workshop which provides a model of practice for teaching
the arts with visually impaired students. Therefore, the emphasis of the
project, in addition to developing appropriate and successful pedagogical
methodology, is to provide professional development for teachers in this
particular environment."
"The activities undertaken during the workshop aimed to stimulate
sensory awareness, to illustrate the use of arts education across the Snow
Initiative and to suggest ways in which teachers can provide activities for
the whole class which allow the full participation of visually impaired
students. The outline for the program is provided below as reference."
Art
Through Touch
Art Through Touch is an London-based
organization that provides tuition and a range of high quality art
activities for blind and visually impaired people.
North
Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts
The North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts (NTIEVA)
develops comprehensive art curriculum content materials for use by art and
classroom teachers in our summer institutes and school year offerings. The
curricular materials profiled on the website include many resources and
examples for teachers eager to integrate arts from the community into the
instruction of students IN that community.
Pádraig
Naughton's Tactile Art Page
The purpose of this Web Site is to share the work and
experiences of this Irish visual artist. Besides displaying his work online,
he aims to stimulate discussion and interest on the involvement of people
with a visual impairment as practitioners in the tactile and visual arts.
Obstacles
and Opportunities: Careers in the Visual Arts for People With Disabilities
Written by Jacqueline Ann Clipsham, this
article, residing on the Kennedy Center Artsedge server, presents a nice
overview of possibilities and options.
SEE,
HEAR, IMAGINE - Hugo Simberg's on-line exhibition for the visually
impaired
"The See, Hear, Imagine online exhibition
presents the symbolistic world of the Finnish artist Hugo Simberg (b.1873,
d. 1917) through six of his works. The works are presented through detailed
descriptions of the pictures and by analyses of their background and
themes."
The Visual Arts Aiding the
Development of Children
ARTKids
This site is dedicated to children and their
educators. ARTKids is a nonprofit website offering art resources for the
classroom and independent students of art. This is a great site that offers
extensive galleries, news stories, and resources for child visual artists.
International
Child Art Foundation
The International Child Art Foundation is
dedicated to advancing and celebrating child art and visual learning
globally. Through its programs and publications, ICAF aims to foster
creativity and confidence in children and to promote communication,
understanding and cooperation among them. The Foundation encourages the
world's children to learn to express themselves freely and to fully
experience the positive affect of art on intellectual and emotional growth.
While the constant animation of the website can be hard on the eyes, the
website nevertheless includes great galleries featuring the art of children
from around the world.
KinderArt
Great curricular projects for children in all
disciplines from theatre to the visual arts to even architecture.
PapaInk
"PapaInk is an international children’s art archive.
Our archival work highlights the socially critical efforts of organizations
and individuals who sponsor and enable children’s artistic endeavors.
PapaInk was born out of three fundamental insights. First, children's art is
largely devalued on a socio-historical level (witness the lack of deep
historical archives); second, children’s artistic vision is a vital and
redeeming element of the human experience (witness the powerful responses
evoked by children’s depictions of the world as it is and as they wish it
to be); and third, the act of bringing together the collections and holdings
of disparate organizations and individuals greatly increases the historical,
aesthetic and social value--and standing--of children’s art."
- Real Change
- Seattle's street-newspaper. This is a wonderful resources. The
organization sponsors writing workshops in writing. The website includes a
number of galleries of paintings and visual artwork as well as poetry and
the literary arts.
The Visual Arts and At-Risk
Populations
Child
Abuse Quilts: Revealing and Healing The Pain of Child Abuse
These quilts were made by subscribers to the QuiltArt mailing list and
other on-line quilters, from April to October 1998. A call was issued to
QuiltArt for quilts dealing with the subject of child abuse, child abuse
prevention and violence against children. About fifty people responded to
that call. Some of those responding knew the pain of abuse first hand.
Others knew it through the eyes of others, often close family members. Some
knew of it from the headlines. No matter the experience, a need existed to
make a statement. This is a great web resource. Nice gallery with excellent
artwork. Simple and well organized, with nice documentation of each piece.
Drawing
Out the Pain - Art class is healing experience at Juvenile Detention Center.
Article by Patricia Davis, Washington Post Staff Writer.
The article offers a case study of the effects of arts therapy as part of
the rehabilitation process for troubled youth.
Graffiti
Art
Anti-Graffiti Web Page
Like most things in life, art can be a force for positive change, but can
also be a force of destruction. In graffiti art the lines between the two
are blurred. The debate rages. It is clear what side of the debate the
creator of this site is on. He presents his arguments and web resources in
an articulate and organized manner.
Art Crimes
Art Crimes is an online gallery of graffiti art from cities around
the world. This project was started with a handful of photos from Atlanta
and Prague by Susan Farrell in May 1994 and the site went public that
September. As of April 1999 Art Crimes has more than 3000 images from 205
cities, 43 countries and 6 continents. Art Crimes was the first graffiti
site on the net, and is still the biggest.
Daim Design
This site profiles the work of a German artist who came off the street
and turned "pro". The site has an extensive collection of high
quality images along with a rather extensive interview with the artist.
GRAFFITI-ART
ausstellung hamburg
Well
organized German site. Includes many images in its online gallery.
Graffiti Art by Mear
Commercial site with many examples of artwork, along with clear
statements of philosophy. The site does not tell much about the artist
himself, even his location or background.
Visual Arts and the deaf
and hard of hearing
Deaf Art
This website, mostly text based, offers an extensive
collection of information and resources on
deaf visual artists.
Deaf
Art Bytes
Deaf Arts Bytes
is an online collection of of visual arts pieces in which deaf artists
express their inner world. Nice website, quite attractive.
Visual Arts Building Communities
Barrio
Life
This Sacremento California based website
offers a plethora of galleries of Latino visual and literary art galleries.
The page is a very attractive one and very extensive in its use of graphics.
There are online forums as well in this site.
Women's
Caucus for Art
"The mission of the Women's Caucus for Art is to support women in
the visual arts professions."
Visual Arts Helping Those With Mental
Illness or Developmental Disability
Arts in Yer
Pants
Based in Britain: Projects for "Dyslexic
Community Artists & Film-makers"
NAEMI
NATIONAL ART EXHIBITIONS BY THE MENTALLY ILL, Inc -
"Because Disabled Artists want to work too." NAEMI is a non
profit organization devoted to increasing public awareness and understanding
about art created by persons who have experienced mental illness. The
website includes a modest gallery of images.
The National Institute of Art and
Disabilities
"The National Institute of Art and Disabilities (NIAD) is an
innovative visual arts center serving adults with developmental and physical
disabilities. Located just 6 miles north of Berkeley in Richmond,
California, NIAD serves up to 50 adults each day from diverse cultural,
ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. The NIAD programs develop the
capacity for creative expression in people with developmental disabilities,
increasing their sense of personal identity and pride. It provides a gallery
and other exhibition opportunities for their work, thereby validating their
art, enhancing their self-esteem and providing them with earnings for their
personal use. It fosters socialization and inclusion at the center and on
field trips to museums, art galleries, artists' studios and community
events. It increases the public's understanding of the artistic ability of
people with developmental disabilities."
Mural
Projects (See also GRAFFITI
art, above)
Claremont
California - Unified's Public Art Series
The Public Art Series is one of the Claremont Unified School
District's newest efforts to beautify district schools while enriching the
educational experience of the students. The students of Claremont Unified's
seven elementary schools were invited, as a part of their curriculum for the
1997-98 school year, to work with community artist and teacher Merrilyn
O'Neill to create a mural at each school showcasing the talent and
creativity of Claremont's youngest citizens. This is a very nice site
demonstrating a wonderful community partnership in action. Richly
illustrated website.
Duboce
Bikeway Mural, San Francisco
This massive 300 foot long mural is profiled in this website
along with a long list of related resources. The whole process of creating
this mural is documented. Included on the page is an article on preservation
of murals.
Foundation
for Hospital Art
Based in Georgia, The Foundation For Hospital
Art is a non-profit organization dedicated to comforting people who suffer
in hospitals by softening the hard walls and ceilings that surround them
during their illness with warm colorful murals painted with the help of
volunteers worldwide. The volunteers include the patients and medical
providers themselves. This is a well organized, inspirational web resource.
Lompoc
California Mural Projects
Lompoc has had a good share of fine artists for years. The
last dozen years the town has encouraged public murals by its' civic groups
in order to beautify the town. This site features an extensive gallery of
images and also profiles the unique "Mural In a Day" project.
Lovejoy
Ramp Mural
This website was created to help preserve the legacy of Tom
Stefopoulos' Lovejoy Ramp Murals in Portland, Oregon, USA. An effort is
underway to save and restore these painted columns. The purpose of this
website is to draw attention to the murals both for informative and
educational purposes, and also as a call to the public to help in the
conservation effort by providing photographs, newspaper articles, documents,
or other information that can "fill in the gaps." Any information
(especially early photographs) is badly needed to aid in the restoration
process. This site is very beautiful and offers thorough documentation and
illustration of the project.
Muralart.com
IN ALL LIKELIHOOD, California is the Mural Capital of the
United States. Year-round sunshine, the wide availability of concrete and
stucco walls, the major influence of the Mexican mural tradition, and
Californians' openness to new forms of popular culture have all played a
role in producing in California one of the country's most exciting and
important collections of wall art. This is an amazing and extensive
collection of California Mural Art along with full documentation. Well
organized too.
Mural
Art in Santa Cruz
Nice site featuring a large gallery of mural
artwork. Very nicely organized site as well.
Mural
Conservancy of Los Angeles
Today upwards of a thousand murals have been produced in
L.A., with new ones appearing on a regular basis. It has been widely
acknowledged that LA is one of the world's mural capitals. Murals that serve
as significant area landmarks have been created by both famous and anonymous
artists. All of this creative activity has served the public and enhanced
the image of Los Angeles at little cost to the public. But it has also
presented future generations with the problem of deterioration and
vandalism. MCLA's mission is to deal with this problem NOW in order to
prevent it from becoming extensive and embarassing--and expensive--to the
City; and to give this art its deserved due as a significant part of our
cultural legacy. This is truly a great site. Hundreds of mural images in LA
are documented. Alas, fewer are illustrated.
Murals
and Artists- BrownPride.Com
This page includes a rather extensive set of
links to the work of Chicano muralists and projects in California.
The
Murals of Humboldt County, California
This website includes an extensive gallery of images
Ogontz
Avenue Art Company Kids Mural Project
A Philadelphia program, "We teach the kids basic
drawing and painting techniques with a goal of when the weather gets warm
we're outside painting murals. The murals are placed where kids frequent, in
well traveled locations that have a long history of graffiti and abuse. We
paint at schools and playgrounds, community centers, rec centers and
religious institutions."
The
Oneonta, New York Mural Project
Under the non-profit umbrella of Oneonta's Art Council .
Steered by the City of Oneonta's Civic Beautification Committee. . Goal: to
realize a vision for a series of original and professional murals that
promote community and economic growth in downtown Oneonta. This is a well
organized, attractive, extensively illustrated website.
Precita
Eyes Mural Arts and Visitors Center San Francisco -
This website profiles the work of this commercial firm. Many
murals in the San Francisco area are documented on the pages. The
organization includes a youth apprenticeship program.
Seattle
Masters of Street Art
Thumbnail indexed collection of about 22
murals (mostly) in the Seattle area. nice gallery.
SPARC
Murals
Based in Venice, California, this organization has involved
hundreds of artists and the community members in the creation and
presentation of public art works. Under the Neighborhood Pride Program, over
83 murals have been produced since 1988 in almost every ethnic community of
Los Angeles. The website offers a large gallery of murals as well as a
wonderful mussion statement which could be a model for many community-based
arts organizations.
Youth
Mural Project
"Putting Art in its Place" Youth Mural Project -
Diane Way, Artistic Director of Ableza, conceived, developed and coordinated
this project to place young "outdoor artists" with a professional
muralist and to have them design and paint a large-scale mural which
reflects their cultures and heritages. This was a truly
"multi-cultural" project, with youth representing several American
Indian tribes, and several countries in Asia, Africa, the Pacific Islands,
and Central and South America. This is a nice site with plenty of
photo-documentation.
Visual Arts and Seniors
Fine Arts and
Crafts Created by Sacramento's Senior Artisans
The Elder Craftsman is dedicated to the development and
marketing of fine arts and crafts created by the Sacramento area senior
community. The shop enables them to be physically productive, reinforcing
their value as members of society and contributing to the economic structure
of the Sacramento community. This is a modest but handsome website.
Visual Arts and Those With Health
Problems
Note: See also Arts in Hospital
and Medical Settings for many more resources
Artery, The
AIDS-Arts Forum
This is a rather extensive collection of articles, galleries, resources,
and even a timeline of AIDS and
AIDS-art history.
Article
on Patient Art Programs in Children's Hospitals
This is a very accessible article on a program for children patients in a
particular hospital. The article goes on to discuss the movement in general
to include visual arts programs in children's hospitals.
Foundation for
Hospital Art
Based in Georgia, The Foundation For Hospital Art is a
non-profit organization dedicated to comforting people who suffer in
hospitals by softening the hard walls and ceilings that surround them during
their illness with warm colorful murals painted with the help of volunteers
worldwide. The volunteers include the patients and medical providers
themselves. This is a well organized, inspirational web resource.
Project on Death in America, Arts
and Humanities Initiative
Transforming the culture of dying - The goal of
transforming the culture and experience of death in America is ambitious and
requires attention to the forms of expression by which illness and death and
the meanings they create take shape. Individuals working in the fields of
the humanities, the fine arts, and the performing arts are giving form
through language and image to the experiences surrounding the end of life.
The Project on Death in America wishes to encourage individuals in the
literary, media, and fine arts as well as the performing arts to use their
creative skills and insights to identify and convey meaning in facing
illness, disability, and death; and to evoke and deepen our understanding of
the diverse metaphors that shape the experiences of suffering, dying, and
bereavement. This website profile fellowship opportunities.
Virtual
Windows
This article from the Houston Business Journal profiles a
company that specializes in the production of virtual windows and vistas for
use in hospitals and medical settings. It is a fascinating article on how
art can be tailored for specific therapeutic settings
Visual
AIDS
Strives to increase public awareness of AIDS through the
visual arts, creating programs of exhibitions, events and publications, and
working in partnership with artists, galleries, museums and AIDS
organizations. By mobilizing the visual arts communities, Visual AIDS raises
money to provide direct services to artists living with HIV/AIDS.
Yale New
Haven Children's Hospital Art Gallery
"This artwork is but a sampling of the "Tales of
Courage" international collection that hangs in the hospital's atrium
and the Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital. Young people (ages 4-18) from at
least 40 countries, including Children's Hospital patients and youngsters
from New Haven's public and private schools, sent art expressing their
feelings about courage. Children from around the world were invited to
submit artwork to celebrate the opening and dedication of the Children's
Hospital in 1993."
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