A Case Study:Queens Museum of Art

A look at art therapy, advocacy and the

community-based approach

Art as Therapy

• Edith Kramer and the Art as Therapy approach

• Embracing Process• Developing a “safe”

space• Building community

Community-Based Approach• Creating a community• Studio Skills and inherent

therapeutic principles• Creativity and Play• Providing a space to be

accepted and acknowledged as a human being

Queens MuseumArtAccess

Advocacy

• Participants and Community

• Within your Organization

• Building Programs• Research• Legislative

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public sector. American Psychologist. 947-955.

Waller, D. (2006).Art therapy for children:How it leads to change. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 11(2), 271-282.

White, M. (2006).Establishing common ground in community-based arts in health. JRSH. 126(3), 128-133.