Art Therapy show – Tears Dried Solid

SVA’s MPS Art Therapy Department is presenting an exhibition of work by the Women Veterans Art Therapy Group titled Tears Dried Solid (slideshow). The reception and show opening are this Wednesday, Nov. 11 (click above for details).

To learn more about art therapy, one place to take a look at the American Art Therapy Association website. The Visual Arts Library has a subscription to Art Therapy – the Journal of the AATA that goes back to 1990. You can find full text articles from Art Therapy dating from 1990 to 2002 in the subscription database Academic Search Elite (available from anywhere – login in off-campus using your MySVA username/password). For more recent issues, you can search their archive here and locate the issue you need in the library’s periodical archive.
If you are researching a topic in Art Therapy, be sure to check out education databases, ERIC & the Professional Development Collection, as well as JStor.

To browse Art Therapy books in the collection, take a look at the RC 451-RC489 range on the shelves.

Other periodicals in the library:
Art Psychotherapy.
Arts in Psychotherapy.
Bulletin of Art Therapy.
Canadian Art Therapy Association Journal.

For more research tips on the subject, take a look at this guide created by the American Art Therapy Association.