Hi my name is Juliana and I am a creative art therapy major at
West Liberty University and today I'm just going to show you around
So today um the first class that I'm going to is crafts 2 with Terri Giller
We'll start today doing presentations of story thoughts and kind of extended the time for that
we can head over to the gallery space I think we'll have Juju go first
discussing her art piece My story cloth revolves around my youngest
brother um we're 10 years apart he has ADHD and sensory processing disorder and I kind of just
asked him to walk me through a life in his world He describes his life as
a constant energy that he associates as thunder and lightning he says that thunder is um kind
of like the calm before the storm that it's the noise that's built up and then the lightning is
the actual energy that he feels throughout the day and it was just kind of in a wheel
Circles are kind of symbolic of journey and that's why I decided to keep
the story cloth in the embroidery ring to just kind of show that he's stitching his own journey
Now we have time to work on our found object sculptures during our studio hour
I chose art therapy to be my major as it was the perfect marriage between psychology and art
I've always had a desire to work alongside people to help
them become the best versions of themselves I also was extremely inspired by my youngest
brother and art is a huge influence in his life to find healing and exert his energy so the creative
arts therapy program is incredibly interactive What you learn in all of our therapy courses are
implemented on a personal level as we actually do the art directives to explore our own conflicts
but of course we only share what we're willing to share and there's no breach in confidentiality
nor push to get more information out of you It is a comfortable class environment as
we explore ethical issues art directives theories and more within the art therapy field
Now I'm headed to my photography class with professor Campbell
I gotta say that of all the assignments we've done this year
this one probably came out uh the best I think we've had we have some really good images here
I've been pre-accepted into the grad program and what it's like so far
is a high intensity of learning more in depth of the creative arts therapy
field We go more into
theories and ethical issues as well as just art materials and the application within the clinic
So today we are out on the quad doing a nature scavenger hunt for the CAT club
The nature scavenger hunt project was something for the creative arts therapy club
the idea behind it was just to get out and explore mother nature and appreciate its beauty
and the actual project itself was to find elements of nature to combine into a collaborative collage
so we provided a scavenger hunt list and
just to spike inspiration and the students would actually go out and pick out elements
of nature that they found inspiring and come back to add it to the collaborative collage
So it's a beautiful day and I'm out here taking a walk around the quad
This major is very versatile there are multiple populations from children and adolescents to
adults and the older population and even inmates The population is vast and and they all are
in a need of therapy Art gives a different
spectrum between verbal to visual language It's a combination of both
and it allows others to explore themselves
and it provides a path for discovery of healing which is the main component of art therapy
Thanks for checking out the creative arts therapy
program for more information just check out our website