Don Jones: Passionate Preacher of the Power of Art
by Don Jones & Bruce Moon & Karen Rush Jones
This compilation of four films and two interviews delve into the life and work of Don Jones. Interviews include his interest in art and his discovery while working in a mental hospital of the spontaneous art of the patients, his portraits of them, and his time at the Menninger Foundation where he was trained by Dr. Karl Menninger. 
Jones became the director of all therapeutic activities there, developing the art therapy program where he trained Robert Ault. He then moved to Harding Hospital where he developed an art therapy program that included a clinical Internship, one of whose students was Bruce Moon. As one of the founders of the American Art Therapy Association he was also its 4th President and a pioneer in the field.

The films examine his professional work, processes with clients, and his collaboration with other early art therapy professionals in founding and nurturing the American Art Therapy Association.

Films include:
  1. Art is Life is Art: the Life & Work of Don Jones by Bruce Moon (2010)
  2. Draw from Within: An Introduction to Art Therapy including two case studies by Don Jones (1978)
  3. A Television Interview
  4. AATA Interview by Jim Consoli (1994)
  5. A Conversation with Don Jones: Artist. Therapist. Teacher by Bruce Moon (2010)
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Jones became the director of all therapeutic activities there, developing the art therapy program where he trained Robert Ault. He then moved to Harding Hospital where he developed an art therapy program that included a clinical Internship, one of whose students was Bruce Moon. As one of the founders of the American Art Therapy Association he was also its 4th President and a pioneer in the field.

The films examine his professional work, processes with clients, and his collaboration with other early art therapy professionals in founding and nurturing the American Art Therapy Association.

Films include:
  1. Art is Life is Art: the Life & Work of Don Jones by Bruce Moon (2010)
  2. Draw from Within: An Introduction to Art Therapy including two case studies by Don Jones (1978)
  3. A Television Interview
  4. AATA Interview by Jim Consoli (1994)
  5. A Conversation with Don Jones: Artist. Therapist. Teacher by Bruce Moon (2010)
This video was formerly included in the Expressive Media Arts Therapies Films Collection distributed by Expressive Media Inc. 

Length of video: 2:15:29

English subtitles available

Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-673-0

Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-673-8

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