Storymaking, Improv, and Visual Image Making
Dates: January 10, 2025
Meets: F from 9:00 AM to 12 N
Location: Grand Rapids Art Museum
COURSE: $59.00
There are still openings remaining at this time.
Course Description
Participants of this workshop are eligible to receive 3.0 social work continuing education credits and/or 3.0 SCECHs for educators.
Working with paintings in the GRAM museum exhibitions, we will generate fairy tales from paintings, and do some improvisational imagining with the characters in the art. Following this we will move to the GRAM art studio and create individually, collectively, and playfully, with the ideas we have generated, bringing it all together with a group discussion of therapeutic applications. No art background or experience required.
Course Level: Beginner
Objectives:
- Participants will develop a working understanding of Archetypal Psychology’s role within art therapy
- Participants will develop some foundational skills in identifying and utilizing aspects of the unconscious within artmaking personally and therapeuticall
- Participants will develop increased confidence and comfort with the use of art within therapeutic setting
Instructors
Jill Eggers
Jill Eggers is an artist and art educator. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Western Michigan University and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting/Printmaking from Yale University. She headed the Painting program at Grand Valley State University for the past 24 years and prior to that taught at Wichita State University. She has also taught in public schools in Chicago and England. Her teaching in recent years has focused on the potential of arts and meditation to facilitate learning and well being, in health care and other fields. She created an undergraduate course for pre- med students in collaboration with colleagues at Harvard University, to improve diagnostic capability and patient-caregiver communication. She has a Buddhist teaching practice and painting studio in downtown Grand Rapids. Her work is exhibited nationally and held in private and public collections.
Steven Edelman
Steven Edelman is an LPC, expressive arts therapist, community arts teacher, visual artist, and writer in Grand Rapids, MI. Originally from Nebraska and Wyoming, he made West Michigan his home in 2011. He has Master’s Degrees in Comparative Religion (Temple University, 2010) and Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a Specialization in Expressive Arts Therapy (Lesley University, 2019). He works as a therapist with Thrive Wellness Collaborative and teaching artist for Artists Creating Together. His current area of focus is Archetypal Psychology’s reframing of the Psyche as a polymorphic structure with inherently dramatic/aesthetic motivations. He spends his free time collaging, daydreaming, and maintaining a mostly healthy obsession with fairy tales.
Location
Grand Rapids Art Museum
Creative Learning Center Entrance on Louis Street
101 Monroe Center NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Special Accommodations
Please contact our office regarding any accommodations you may need prior to attending our program(s). We will work with you to ensure your needs are met. You may email us at learn@gvsu.edu, or call us at (616) 331-7180.
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Grand Valley State University School of Social Work, an accredited social work education program, is authorized by Administrative Rule 338.2965 to award Michigan social work continuing education contact hours.
| Fee: | $59.00 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | 3.00 |
| CEUs: | 3.00 |
Fee Breakdown
| Category | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Fee | COURSE | $ 59.00 |
| Fee-Alternate | GVSU Field Education Supervisor | $ 45.00 |
| Fee-Alternate | GVSU Faculty/Staff | $ 25.00 |
Grand Rapids Art Museum
Creative Learning Center Entrance on Louis Street101 Monroe Center NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49503