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A Symposia Hosted by Bambino Educational Trust. The 2007 conference is a collaborative effort of the Bambino Educational Trust, and art therapist Sangeeta Prasad, pioneering art therapist Dr. Judith Rubin, and Dr. Gaelynn Wolf Bordanaro, former Chair of the international aid organization CHART.The film begins with Prasad’s personal account of her own career development in art therapy to an audience of educators and social service professionals. Rubin expertly recalls experiences from former clients with clarity and encyclopedic memory. Prasad brings in cultural considerations, with specific reference to children served by the Bambino school and other local institutions. Her message is that adaptability should exist in art therapy (“You cannot take something that’s done in the west and just apply it in the east…Someone asked me what is 60 lb. [paper]? Don’t worry about these [guidelines]…Sometimes our tables are smaller…our culture uses more smaller spaces. Smaller sheets are fine.”)
Prasad engages in discussion on adapting art therapy to Indian culture. A gem is Prasad sharing her “Tree of Art” from her book Creative Expressions (2008), a tool she developed to illustrate the salient components in the process of art making. Prasad includes results from her creative Dream House project, including samples of art from an international audience.
This film is a thoughtful overview of the field of art therapy with children in specific cultural setting. It is also a historical and cultural record of foundation establishment of the art therapy field in India. It is framed by a recent interview of Sangeeta Prasad, who discusses the evolution of her efforts to bring art therapy, which she studied in the U.S., to her homeland. This seminar was just the beginning.
Commentary by Sangeeta Prasad, ATR-BC
Prasad engages in discussion on adapting art therapy to Indian culture. A gem is Prasad sharing her “Tree of Art” from her book Creative Expressions (2008), a tool she developed to illustrate the salient components in the process of art making. Prasad includes results from her creative Dream House project, including samples of art from an international audience.
This film is a thoughtful overview of the field of art therapy with children in specific cultural setting. It is also a historical and cultural record of foundation establishment of the art therapy field in India. It is framed by a recent interview of Sangeeta Prasad, who discusses the evolution of her efforts to bring art therapy, which she studied in the U.S., to her homeland. This seminar was just the beginning.
Commentary by Sangeeta Prasad, ATR-BC
This video was formerly included in the Expressive Media Arts Therapies Films Collection distributed by Expressive Media Inc.
Length of video: 3:13:27
English subtitles available
Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-625-0
Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-625-7
Judith Rubin, a pioneer in the field of art therapy, is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. She is a Registered, Board-Certified Art Therapist and a Licensed Psychologist. Dr. Rubin is the author of five books, including: Child Art Therapy, The Art of Art Therapy, and Art Therapy: An Introduction. She was the "Art Lady" on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in the 1960s.
A past President and Honorary Life Member of the American Art Therapy Association, Dr. Rubin is retired from full-time clinical practice, and is devoting her energies to creating and disseminating films on the arts in therapy through a nonprofit organization, Expressive Media, Inc. Her other films include Beyond Words: Art Therapy with Older Adults (2004), We'll Show You What We're Gonna Do! (art with blind children, 1971), Children & the Arts (all of the arts with children, 1973), and The Green Creature Within (group art-drama therapy with adolescents, 1984). More about Judith Rubin's films and the organization can be found at http://www.expressivemedia.org.