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Capstone from a Distance: Zine pages, blood, sweat, & tears
Our Capstone process underwent a new iteration this year. With the class split in half with students who are learning at a distance, and students who are local to Southwestern...
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2 new murals, a Capstone Process
Our Capstone process underwent a new iteration this year. With the class split in half with students who are learning at a distance, and students who are local to Southwestern...
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Murals, Relationship & Endings
As I move towards facilitating my last mural painting process at Southwestern College, I am thinking about relationships, legacy and love. Debbie Schroder and I have co-facilitated this process since...
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Hope’s Tree & New Beginnings at SWC
Jennifer Albright Knash joined the Southwestern College family as department chair of the Art Therapy & Counseling program this past spring 2022. She has brought diplomacy, kindness, creativity and a...
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The Importance of Magic Pintos by Deborah Schroder, Program Chair
I’ve been with Southwestern College for almost 20 years. As I get ready to move on to a new position in northern New Mexico, I’m aware of what an...
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Arts-Based Research: Symbols of Internalization and Identity
One of the required courses in our Art Therapy for Clinical Professionals Masters program is a 1-credit Arts-Based Research course. Students are asked to choose a symbol to engage with...
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The Magic of Trans-Formation: Alchemy, Gender, and JKR
Trans- (prefix): From Latin. (1) On the other side of : across : through : beyond (2) so or such as to change or transfer Southwestern College offers a...
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Knowing when to say “when”
I attended the Ecotherapy workshop “Exploring Kinship Relations Using Ecotherapy and Art Therapy” and so enjoyed being out on campus spending time walking through the gardens, meditating in the labyrinth,...
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Old Artwork, New Meanings, By Deborah Schroder, Program Chair MA in Art Therapy/Counseling
Old Artwork, New Meanings The packing up/moving stuff process has taken me a long time. As we try to get the old place ready to sell, I continue to...
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Group Murals During a Pandemic
In March 2020, we enjoyed our last "in-person" mural process on campus (Cracked Wide Open, March 2020). As we move to gathering together as a group this summer (August 2021),...
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Welcome, Tiny Ones!
By Deborah Schroder Thanks to a very generous donation from a local therapist, we now have a lovely sand tray collection to use in the Art Therapy building. We have...
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Finding My Inner Strength by Chelstina Rosera, SWC student
Finding My Inner Strength, March 2121 Inner strength is this magical power we all have yet often forget it’s there. When you tap into it you can achieve great things....
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Thoughts on Future Bound Genograms by Deborah Schroder, ATCN Program Chair
This quarter I’m teaching two sections of one of my favorite courses – Family Art Therapy. As we’ve been exploring many aspects of intergenerational trauma and historical intergenerational trauma,...
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“Rising Hope” by Aubrey Leigh Newton
Rising Hope: At first, I see the road ahead, to be long, and treacherous. The mountains I see, as steep, and unforgiving. I feared, challenges unknown, and obstacles well-placed...
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Alum Anne Lebednik Video on Art & Creativity
In Art & Creativity, Southwestern College alumnus Anne Lebednik explores the value of integrating creativity and artmaking as a practice in our lives. Anne explains how we can approach this...
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Conversations I Never Had with My Daughter, By Deborah Schroder, Program Chair MA in Art Therapy/Counseling
I asked her permission to write this. It’s more her story than mine, but she doesn’t have time to write anything, being a mom of three small ones. My...
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Distance Art Therapy in the Time of COVID-19
By Laura Lansrud-Lopez At the beginning of March 2020, New Mexico experienced a statewide and rapid shift to physical distancing and stay-home requirements in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and...
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Art Can Save Lives
By Ruth Dennis Years ago, I saw a line that art can save your life. At the time, I just thought it was another artist being arrogant. The art world...
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Holding On
By Deborah Schroder A tiny flash of yellow, right outside my window, caught my eye today. A precious little yellow bird was clinging to the branch of a pine tree....
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Southwestern Soundbites: Whitney Tressel on Certainty in Uncertain Times
Photo of Whitney Tressel, taken by Adria Malcolm. Welcome to Southwestern Soundbites! In this episode, Courtney Shackelford talks to Whitney Tressel; current Art Therapy and Counseling student, graduate assistant, travel...
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Southwestern Soundbites: A Second Master’s Degree and Art Therapy
Hello, and welcome to Southwestern Soundbites. In this episode, Dru Phoenix talks about her experience as someone who already had a Master's degree and later decided to pursue another Master's...
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Diane’s Story
By Diane Chavez I finished grad school at Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2015. I never thought grad school was possible. I went to the emergency room...
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Holding the Heart
By Deborah Schroder An individual Zoom meeting with a student inspired me to think about this, and I so appreciate that. The student was wondering how faculty members were working...
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Cracked Wide Open
An apt title for the potential personal experience this global pandemic has encouraged. Two days after it was announced that gatherings of 50 or more people needed to be postponed,...