FAT Moon Podcast

Dr. Savneet Talwar (she/ her) is a Chicago based American Studies scholar, fiber artist, educator, art therapist and somatic coach. She is currently a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the art therapy and fiber and material studies departments. Her art and therapeutic practice is informed by her doctoral training in anti-oppressive frameworks, social justice and intersectional feminism. She strives to embrace abolitionist concepts to enhance her art practice and pedagogy.

 As an interdisciplinary fiber and feminist artist, her work exists at the intersection of archives, memory, language, feminist politics and questions of resistance. She is interested in the contradictions of feminist and archival matters – what and who is worthy of being a subject of discourse? What colonial narratives and images continue to define matters of the global south?

 Talwar has initiated various community based projects such as the Wandering Uterus Project; the CEW (Creatively Empowered Women) Design Studio and most recently the Mending Lab, a pop up art studio to facilitate conversation on the role of repair in communities.  She is also a member of the P O Box Collective, a social practice space in Rogers Park, Chicago.

She is the author of Art Therapy for Social Justice: Radical Intersections and has published numerous articles in national and international journals on ethics of care, intersectional feminism, feminist pedagogy, the politics of crafting, culture and identity, ethics, law and cultural competence and trauma informed art therapy.

https://www.savneettalwar.com/

Art Therapy for Social Justice: Radical Intersection

Publications List - Copies of articles can be access on Research Gate

Jordan S. Potash, PhD, ATR-BC, REAT, LPAT (DC), LCPAT (MD) is a registered, board certified, and licensed art therapist, as well as, registered expressive arts therapist (USA). He is Associate Professor in the Art Therapy Graduate Program at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. As an art therapist for 25 years,

Potash has worked with clients of all ages in many settings including schools, clinics, and community art studios. He works with organizations in Washington DC focused on youth experiencing homelessness and grief. His primarily interests are in the applications of art and art therapy in the service of community development, social change, and peacebuilding.

Potash has authored several articles and book chapters as well as presented at conferences, universities, and communities in the U.S., U.K., Hong Kong, and Israel. Potash supports the art therapy profession as Editor in Chief of Art Therapy (2019-2024) and lead advocate for the passage and implementation of the DC Professional Art Therapist Licensure Amendment Act.

⁠www.jordanpotash.com⁠

Megan is licensed by the counseling boards in the U.S. states of Arizona, Indiana, and Texas, and she also holds board certification status through the Art Therapy Credentials Board. She has served on professional boards and committees at local, regional, and national levels within the U.S.

Her career includes clinical work in behavioral health, correctional, educational, medical, and social services settings, and she now draws upon these experiences in her online private practice. She earned her master’s degree in art therapy with a specialization in grief and medical counseling from the University of Louisville, where she studied under Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) co-creators, Drs. Vija Lusebrink and Sandra (Kagin) Graves-Alcorn.

These art therapy pioneers trained her in their ahead-of-its-time, nervous system-oriented, outcome-informed framework as a basis for assessment, treatment planning, intervention, progress monitoring, and case conceptualization. Megan enjoys sharing information about the ETC per the ideas and intentions of her professors. She is cultivating a community of ETC enthusiasts and provides ETC supervision as well as live webinars to help others develop appreciation for both the basics and the nuances of this important framework.

www.meganvanmeter.com

Cornelia Elbrecht BA. MA. (Art Ed), AThR, SEP, has more than 40 years of experience as an art therapist. She is also a Somatic Experiencing trauma therapist (SEP). She is the director of the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy. She has studied Expressive Arts Therapies at the School for Initiatic Art Therapy in Germany, also Jungian and Gestalt therapy, Bioenergetics and bodywork.

She is founder and director of the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy, School for Initiatic Art Therapy. She has lectured in Art Therapy at RMIT, Melbourne. Cornelia is a registered professional member and accredited supervisor of ANZACATA, the Australian, New Zealand and Asian Art Therapy Association and IEATA International Expressive Arts Therapies Association. Cornelia gives courses and individual sessions internationally, throughout Australia and in private practice at Claerwen Retreat in Apollo Bay, Australia.

www.sensorimotorarttherapy.com

Juliet L. King, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, LMHC, is an Associate Professor of Art Therapy at The George Washington University and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurology at Indiana University School of Medicine. With over two decades of experience as a clinician, educator, and administrator, Dr. King's research focuses on the integration of art therapy and neuroscience, making the science of therapeutic arts accessible and adaptable to diverse sociocultural contexts.

Her PhD in Translational Health Sciences culminated in the development and testing of a neuroscience-informed art therapy toolkit designed for the treatment of psychological trauma.

She is the author and editor of Art Therapy, Neuroscience, and Trauma: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives, with the second edition published in 2024.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003348207/art-therapy-neuroscience-trauma-juliet-king-christianne-strang

Catherine Hyland Moon (she/her/hers) is Professor Emerit, Department of Art Therapy and

Counseling, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Author of Studio Art Therapy: Cultivating the

Artist Identity in the Art Therapist and contributing editor of Materials and Media in Art

Therapy: Critical Understandings of Diverse Artistic Vocabularies, she has worked in varied

settings, including a psychiatric hospital, home-based behavioral healthcare, and a studio-based

private practice. Her current art therapy work is focused on co-leading cross-cultural

therapeutic arts training programs in East Africa through Global Alliance for Africa and co-

facilitating a free community art studio in the U.S. aimed at cultivating collective care across

social differences. Her professional publications and presentations in art therapy have focused

on the unique contributions of an art-based perspective in therapeutic practice, community-

based art studios as public healthcare, the ethics of art therapy in international collaboration

and exchange, and intersectional, socially just approaches to care within art therapy praxis and

organizational structures. Her current artmaking centers around assembling and repurposing

strategies, whether through text-based works, collage, painted assemblages, found object

constructions, or fiber-based creations.

Dr Emma van Daal is an infant mental health consultant and researcher, child psychotherapist, and arts therapist working in private practice and community organisations
for the past 18 years. Her passion is early intervention of early life trauma incorporating the arts to nurture attachment and promote healing, having presented internationally and nationally on this work.

She is currently establishing the Centre for Infant Wellbeing with a focus on consultation, supervision, research, and training in creative, playful, and relational approaches as a vital component of perinatal and infant mental health.

Emma's recent publications include mapping the materiality of lived experiencing arguing to (re)conceptualise well-being, trauma, and mental health within a relational, post-humanist, and multimodal ontology that strongly informs her practice, writing, and research. 

She enjoys and seeks interdisciplinary collaborations that innovate new ways of doing “intervention” as well as weaving in time for illustration/art-making nurture her own artistic passions.

www.theplaystudio.com.au

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emma-Van-Daal

Lisa D. Hinz, Ph.D., ATR-BC is a licensed clinical psychologist and board certified art therapist.

She is an associate professor and director of the Art Therapy Psychology Doctoral Program at

Dominican University of California. Dr. Hinz is the author of many professional publications and

three books on art therapy. The second edition of her book, Expressive Therapies Continuum: A

Framework for Using Art in Therapy was released in January 2020 and builds upon her interest

in materials and methods in art therapy. Dr. Hinz specializes in the treatment of eating issues,

substance abuse, and lifestyle medicine; she maintains a private practice in St. Helena,

California.

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David E. Gussak, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM is Professor for the Florida State University’s Graduate Art Therapy Program and Founder/Program Consultant for the FSU/FL Dept of Correction’s Art Therapy in Prisons program. He served as the  chairperson for the FSU Department of Art Education in which the art therapy program is housed from 2008-2018.

He has presented and published extensively internationally and nationally on forensic art therapy and art therapy in forensic settings. These include, among others, Art on Trial: Art Therapy for Capital Murder Cases (2013), Art and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned: Re-Creating Identity (2019), The Frenzied Dance of Art and Violence (2022) and The Wiley Handbook of Art Therapy (Co-editor with Marcia Rosal; 2016).  In 2022, Dr. Gussak was granted the American Art Therapy Association’s Honorary Lifetime Member (HLM) award.

The Frenzied Dance of Art and Violence, by David E Gussak

Pat B. Allen, Ph.D., A.T.R., is an author, artist, art therapist, and teacher who connects to the Creative Source through art and writing. Her two books - Art Is a Way of Knowing (Shambhala 1995) and Art Is a Spiritual Path (Shambhala 2005) - explore the borders between art, psychology, spirituality, and social action, as well as a novel, Cronation. 

Her artwork has been exhibited in a wide variety of juried and invited exhibits. Pat has worked in a wide range of settings over a long clinical career and in 1995, along with two former students, she founded the Open Studio Project in Chicago, IL. OSP became a laboratory to "wrestle art therapy to the ground" and explore what is the healing nature of art, actually? From this deep personal and communal inquiry emerged the Open Studio Process, an art and writing process that Pat has shared with thousands of folks worldwide.

Currently, Pat is senior faculty at the Jewish Studio Project, a non-profit organization that was founded by her daughter, Rabbi Adina Allen. Adina has taken the work powerfully into the Jewish world and together with an amazing team of folks Pat and Adina are training others to iterate this powerful creative process in new settings.

Adina’s new book The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom is now available for pre-order.

www.patballen.com

www.jewishstudioproject.org

www.cronation.org