• Portable Prototypes: Canterbury Badges and the Thomasaltar in Hamburg 

  Lee, Jennifer (MDPI, 2021)

  Pilgrims’ badges often depicted works of art located at a cult center, and these cheap, small images frequently imitated monumental works. Was this relationship ever reversed? In late medieval Hamburg, a painted altarpiece ...
• WHALEFALL 

  Leamon, Karri (2021-05-08)

  The whale fall represents a devastating loss not only symbolically of my father, but also a colossal loss to the ecosystem of our great oceans. As the whale begins to sink it blocks out the sun entirely to the creatures ...
• Rhetorical Questions and Ruminations: Examining Early Career Faculty Experiences through Found Poetry 

  Willcox, Libba; McCormick, Kate (University of Alberta Library, 2021-09-04)

  Transitioning from graduate student to early career faculty can often provoke uncertainty and questioning. This study explores the rhetorical and revealing nature of such questioning (i.e., Am I really this lost? Am I in ...
• Hiroshi Sugimoto Transforms the Motionless 

  Spence, Shannon (2022)

  While the average contemporary photographer creates a snapshot in time, Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948) is unique in his ability to create life where there is none. Sugimoto photographed scenes of dioramas from natural history ...
• Applied Improvisation and Art Making in Group Therapy 

  Misluk-Gervase, Eileen (International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals annual conference, 2022-03)

  Applied improvisation (AI) is the translation of improvisational theater principles to non-performers with the goals of “creativity, innovation, and/or meaning” (Tint & Froerer, 2014, p. 2). AI facilitates the practice of ...
• Integrating Applied Improv into Group Art Therapy for Individuals with Eating Disorders 

  Misluk-Gervase, Eileen (Hofstra University Annual Creative Arts Therapies Conference, 2022-04)

  Applied improvisation (AI) is the translation of improvisational theater principles to non-performers with the goals of “creativity, innovation, and/or meaning” (Tint & Froerer, 2014, p. 2). AI facilitates the practice of ...
• Art Therapy and Applied Improvisation: High Impact Learning Strategies to Enhance Communication and Professional Identity 

  Misluk-Gervase, Eileen; Ansaldo, Jim (Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2022)

  Students who engage in high-impact learning initiatives such internships, capstone research projects, and collaborative activities report gains in personal development that include growth in self-confidence, increase in ...
• Fighting Powers 

  Dobouni, Leena (2021)

  Fighting Powers analyzes Leena Dobouni’s body of installation artwork as it relates to concepts of socio-political imbalance between the Middle East and Western powers. The West’s systemic degradation of the Middle East ...
• Community and Art 

  Haymaker, Shawn (2021-05)

  Community may hold different meanings to different people and situations, which may or may not be bound by physical space. Community is not well defined and is especially difficult to define in literacy research. It was ...
• Art Therapy in Opiate Use Disorder: Moving Toward an Integrated Treatment Framework 

  Sentir, Alena (2021-05)

  Drug addiction is a major public health concern resulting in deleterious consequences to individuals and society. Yet, addiction is a recoverable disease with the right support. Although evidence-based treatments exist ...
• The Land of Milk and Honey 

  Roberts, Jessica 'Leia' (2021-05-10)

  My body of work serves as a form of therapy for me and provides insight into the often-misunderstood world of mental illnesses. A personal struggle is with Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders [OSFED] has informed ...
• PTSD/12 

  Russo, Scott (2021)

  My art explores the question, what does a person’s facial expression attempt to inform us about what may be going on inside? What feelings are being experienced? How and more curiously why, are the feelings arranged into ...
• Defining the Role: Pediatric Art Therapist 

  Mourey, Brooke (2021-05)

  In pediatrics, there are various teams of professionals working to help medically fragile children develop and maintain coping capacities amidst their traumatic situations. In recent years the need for these professionals ...
• Understanding the designer’s role in Latin American Public Sector Innovation Labs 

  Garcia, Luis (2021-08-05)

  This project explores Public Sector Innovation Labs (PSI Labs) in the Latin American context with a particular focus on designer’s contributions. PSI Labs provide a fantastic opportunity for governments to experiment and ...
• Symbolism: An Arts-Based Phenomenological Study Through Reflective Artwork of Graduate Students 

  Smith, Macey Christine (2021-05)

  Symbolism has the potential to be found in anything and everywhere if someone will allow themself to explore this idea. While symbolism exploration has been occurring for decades, art therapy has provided a wonderful ...
• A Cataclysmorphic Prophecy 

  Moore, Alex (2021-05-20)

  Our bodies and minds are incessantly morphing, driven by environmental stimuli. You could reduce the entire experience of being alive to simply being fluid and responsive. In considering the significance of this morphability, ...
• A Community Focus in Grief Groups: Children and Adolescents Experiencing Cancer Related Parental Loss 

  Gore, Emile (2021-05)

  Approximately 2.85 million children under 18 live with a parent affected by cancer in the United States and cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide. These children are at risk for developmental and mental ...
• The Use of Art Therapy for Family Caregivers of Individuals with Dementia 

  Powlen, Mikayla (2021-05)

  The art therapy field enlightens the idea of artistic expression which allows for nonverbal interpretation of emotions, bypasses cognition, and brings forth the benefit of art alone. Art therapy can be used to reduce ...
• Of a Time and Place 

  Cecil, Justin (2021-05-07)

  The silhouettes incorporated into my work are used for obscurity. They often feature the mundane, ordinary people whose stories could only be imagined. Sometimes they focus on recognizable figures but presenting them in ...
• Easing Transition: The Journal as a Transitional Object for Adolescents in Emergency Shelter Care 

  Dunn, Amanda (2021-05)

  The 437,283 children involved in the foster care system, specifically the adolescents in institutions like emergency shelter care, present specific needs including continuity, trauma-informed care, and positive relationships. ...

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