Julia and Mathew Carter volunteer at North Coast Youth Correctional Facility in Astoria, Oregon. They have developed an art program for troubled youths within the correctional facility run by the Warrenton-Hammond School District.  Students are selected with certain criteria to participate. The result is often a way for these young men to look at mistakes made, [...]

For one autistic kid, art gets him talking.
Seven-year-old Jalyn Weston loves sharing his artwork with anyone who wants to see. This summer, one of his drawings will be displayed in a national traveling exhibit with the 2010 International VSA festival, The International Organization on Arts and Disability.
His mom Pam explained the importance of art in [...]

Ines Lozano, principal of the International Christian School, knows the healing power of art. That’s why he helped put together “Through the Eyes of a Haitian Child,” a project that has him and three other educators visiting Haiti to teach art and photography to homeless and orphaned children.
“Art could be a great therapy to relieve [...]

They’re like sports trading cards, except they don’t have a picture of a baseball player on the front or any stats on the back. When dealing with these cards, the message is a little less obvious.
They’re artist trading cards, miniature works of art that are traded or given away. The movement, which started in 1996 [...]

A small study revealed art therapy reduces anxiety in kids who suffer from asthma.
Anya Beebe, an art therapist at National Jewish Health in Denver, led a study of 22 children between the ages of 7 and 14 with persistent asthma. Beebe and colleagues assigned one group of children to undergo art therapy along with their [...]

For the projects made in the art therapy class at St. Joseph’s School for the Blind, there is more to the artwork than meets the eye.
In honor of National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day, adult students from the New Jersey Foundation for the Blind visited Concordia Learning Center at St. Joseph’s to host art therapy [...]

Amoako Buachie used to create fights with his mother in the morning. Now he creates art instead.
This June, the 18 year-old autistic artist will have one of his works of art displayed in the world-famous Metropolitan Museum of Art. Buachie’s painting is one of 75 pieces from New York’s K-12 public school students that was [...]

What’s the story behind a painting? For the artwork shown at the “Emotions Exhibition” at the Ulster Cancer Foundation in Belfast, the story starts with the cancer diagnosis. In honor of their 40th anniversary, the UCF chose to display projects from their art therapy program.
Judith Cole of the Belfast Telegraph features a few of the [...]

According to the Alzheimer’s Association, as many as 5.3 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease. With no known cure, many therapists are looking for new ways to help those who are suffering. People with Alzheimer’s experience memory and/or speech loss and often develop problems communicating their thoughts and feelings.
Recent research has shown that integrating [...]

A group of Art Workshops have been started this month to help children express their emotions when dealing with  mothers or fathers who have gone through or are currently being treated for breast cancer.
“When a parent has breast cancer, it causes a big change in a child’s life,” said Dr. Michelle Schmidt, assistant professor of internal medicine at [...]