SVA Art Therapy Conference 9.23.11

[Guest guest]

Announcing:

SVA MPS Art Therapy Department Annual Conference

The

Artistic Drive

Friday, September 23, 2011

10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

The department's annual conference will address how the artist's

urge to create is manifested in "outsider art," fine art and art

therapy. See below for more details.

Location:

SVA Theatre

333 West 23 Street

New York, NY 10011

Schedule and Speakers:

9 a.m.-10 a.m.

Registration

and Continental Breakfast

10-11:30

a.m.

Laurie

, PhD, practicing psychoanalyst, art therapist,

art historian and author.

Dr. ,

a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the New York

University Medical Center and Professor Emerita of Art Therapy at

NYU, is also author of art history books exploring the works of

Alberto Giacometti and Louise Nevelson. Dr. will discuss

possible motivations and inspirations for the creation of art, as

they relate to both fine art and art therapy.

11:30

a.m.-1 p.m.

Randy

Vick, MS, Chair, Art Therapy Program at School of the

Art Institute of Chicago.

In addition

to his experience as an art therapist, Mr. Vick has extensive

knowledge of "Outsider" Art, particularly from historic

collections and contemporary disability arts studios, and its

relation to art therapy. He will discuss folk art and other

traditions outside the fine art mainstream and how they can be an

analogue for the art done by art therapy clients.

Lunch Break

2:30-4:00

p.m.

Randy Vick

and Laurie will be joined by Francis Palazzolo (MA,

Artist and Director of the Hospital Audiences, Inc. Art Studio)

and na Driever (MA, contemporary art curator and

American self-taught art specialist) for a panel discussion

addressing The Artistic Drive. DiSunno (PhD, ATR-BC, RNCS, LCAT, SVA Faculty) will moderate

the panel.

Coffee

Reception

Cost

(please tell us which one when you register):

General public: $75 with

pre-registration, $80 at the door

SVA alumni, current P/T SVA

students and Non-SVA students: $50

SVA

MPS Art Therapy Alumni, Current SVA On-site Supervisors, Current

SVA F/T students faculty and staff: FREE

Please make checks or money

orders payable to: The Ray Levine Scholarship Fund

and mail them to the Art Therapy Department, School of

Visual Arts, 209 East 23 Street, NYC, 10010. Attendees

may also pre-register for the event and pay at the door. Checks,

credit cards, and money order will be accepted at the door, but

not cash.

All proceeds from the conference will go to the Ray Levine

Art Therapy Scholarship Fund of the Visual Arts Foundation.

5 CECs available

for ATR-BCs. To RSVP or for more information, please call

, or e-mail us at arttherapy@....