ACME Session

Arts and Healing

Arts practitioners and community leaders will discuss how arts-based practices provide healing opportunities. Participants will create their own art in response to topics explored during the panel.

Arts practitioners, art therapists, and community leaders will discuss how arts-based practices can provide healing opportunities for individuals and communities. This panel will present the therapeutic value of the arts in three parts: art in response to global crises, art therapy in clinical practice, and community-centered art as therapy experience.

Participants will learn about the power of therapeutic art-making on an individual and global scale, create their own art in response to topics explored during the panel, and leave with an understanding of the intrinsic therapeutic value of art creation.

Panel will include:

• Vickie E. Morgan, ATR, CMHC, Art Therapist, University Neuropsychiatric Institute,
  and Adjunct Professor, Salt Lake Community College, Utah Art Therapy Association President, Salt Lake City, Utah
• Brandy Farmer, President/CEO of Centro Civico Mexicano, BOD/Vice Chair of Comunidades Unidas, Salt Lake City, Utah
• Jave Gakumei Yoshimoto, MFA, MAAT, Visual Artist, Assistant Professor of Art, University of Nebraska at Omaha

ACME (Art. Community. Museum. Education.) Sessions are bimonthly roundtable public exchanges where participants can dream and articulate new models of education and engagement through art. Presented by the UMFA in partnership with The City Library, and with funding from Utah Humanities (UH). UH improves communities through active engagement in the humanities.

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