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Body, Heart, and Mind

Posted December 11th, 2018 by Courtney Shackelford & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories.

I come from the east coast, specifically from Virginia. Though I graduated from an art school with a BFA, a lot of the concepts that we discussed in class were done so in an almost exclusively cerebral way. Addressing art this way is valuable—line, shape, color are all important when making a piece. But…
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The Hogwarts of Santa Fe

Posted October 9th, 2015 by Micaela Wood & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Consciousness & Mindfulness, Art Therapy at SWC.

This morning I was chatting with one of my lovely classmates about our first two weeks at Southwestern College. She said something that instantly resonated with me- “I feel like we’re at Hogwarts!” Thinking more about this humorous comparison to Harry Potter, I began to see more and more striking parallels. We are summoned here by…
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