Museum-based Art Therapy

Mitra Reyhani Ghadim, DAT, ATR-BC, LCAT, is an art therapist, author, and educator. She worked as a museum art therapist for nearly a decade, creating several art therapy programs for various populations. Lauren Daugherty, LMHC, ATR-P, is an art therapist at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University Bloomington where she established the first museum art therapy program at a university museum in the U.S.

1. The Power of Museums for Therapeutic Reparation; 2. Exploring Museum-based Art Therapy: A Summary of Existing Programs; 3. Creating a Community Partnership for Lasting Change: Museum Art Therapy with Juvenile Offenders; 4. Museum-based Art Therapy: A Collaborative Effort with Access, Education, and Public Programming; 5. A Binational Participatory Project with Families Affected by Autism in the Museum Art Therapy Context; 6. Collaborating Organizations Help Interns Light Up the Panorama of the City of New York; 7. ARTogether: A Possibility of Therapeutically Informed Programming in a Museum Setting; 8. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s Artful Healing: Putting the ART in Partnership; 9. People inside Museums: One Hands-on Artmaking Room in Context; 10. There’s Always Room at the Table: The Art Hive of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; 11. Museum as Therapeutic Space: Centralizing the Experiences of People of Color; 12. Musings on Healing, Museums, and Disability; 13. The Role of Museum Collections in Therapeutic Work; 14. Practical Methods and Strategies; Index