Tonight I am preparing myself for the first day of an exciting internship! I will be shadowing an Art Therapist named Lauren Fabrizio, who is working at Family Residences and Essential Enterprises (FREE) under the Director of Art Therapy, Ed Regensuburg. I was able to secure this opportunity though old fashioned communication - I took a look at the New York Art Therapy Association website (http://nyarttherapy.org/) and basically wrote to all the practicing art therapists from Albany to Long Island [after taking a look at their website and statements of course]. I received a call from Ed Regensburg very shortly after his receipt of the message, and he offered me this wonderful opportunity to shadow an art therapist and conference with him to discuss questions, reactions and feelings regarding my entire experience. Additionally, in each of our meetings we will go over a piece of expressive art that I have created in response to my experience.
The internship will be based in Long Island, and I will be traveling from Westchester, NY, each day to be there. Lauren Fabrizio is a recent graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City. This is very appealing to me because I have been looking into their addictionology program in art therapy, and will now have someone to talk to about this!
The internship will last from December 20th 2009 to January 20th 2010. In this time I will be working with three different populations. These include autistic children, mentally challenged adults, and developmentally disabled adults.
It will be very refreshing for me to finally immerse myself in the field that I truly want to pursue. I love art, I love making, but I want to do with it, what it has done for me - to help!
I will be blogging on a near to daily basis to provide an updated account of the development of this amazing internship!
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As a ceramic artist for the past six years, my work has existed as an expression of a range of human emotions. Through my artwork I aim to communicate my personality and emotional outlook on my immediate world and the world at large. By indulging myself in the ceramic process I am able to establish my own creative outlet, while striving to create a similar experience for my viewers through the emotive ceramic sculptures created.
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- Kelly Ann O’Sullivan was born in New Rochelle, NY in January of 1987. Kelly Ann will have received her BFA in Ceramics from the State University of New York at New Paltz, in 2010. In her time at the university, Kelly Ann was an active member of the Student Association, and the Student Art Alliance. The therapeutic nature of art, being a major influence on her life and work, Kelly Ann founded a student organization known as the New Paltz Art Therapy Association. The Artist is known for her emotive ceramic sculptures, which address the artist’s understanding, and depiction of a range of human emotions.
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