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Art Therapy Lab is an international studio-lab exploring community-based practice at the intersection of art therapy and related fields.

06/02/2026

Reflections from Brighton-based anthropologist and community designer Jean Jules Wachter of Mind Street Lab () and The Vault () on the importance of supporting both creativity and community wellbeing through artist-led cultural spaces.

Thank you, Jean, for sharing your perspectives and work in your community.
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This post is part of our ongoing series: Art, Care, and Community: Practitioner Stories, where we continue to highlight reflections from practitioners working across community, collaborative, and interdisciplinary spaces.

Want to share your story? Link in bio.

05/28/2026

Reflections from artist and creative producer Eda Emirdağ on founding Montag Residency () in Gönen, Turkey, and her ongoing work exploring memory, storytelling, cultural heritage, and place-based creative practice.

Through residency programming and collaborative projects, her work considers how artistic spaces can support connection, reflection, and cultural dialogue.

Thank you, Eda, for sharing your perspectives and work in your community.

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This post is part of our ongoing series: Art, Care, and Community: Practitioner Stories, where we continue to highlight reflections from practitioners working across community, collaborative, and interdisciplinary spaces.

Want to share your story? Link in bio.

05/15/2026

Sharing reflections from Kevalin Saksiamkul, a Bangkok-based expressive art therapist and founder of Museum of Mind Art Therapy Studio.

In this feature, Kevalin reflects on her practice, public perceptions of art therapy in Thailand, and her love for working with people in community spaces, even as an introvert. Her reflections speak to the ways creativity, care, and connection can emerge through shared artistic experiences and evolving cultural conversations around mental health and the arts.

Thank you, Kevalin, for sharing your perspectives and work with our community.

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This post is part of our ongoing series: Art, Care, and Community: Practitioner Stories, where we continue to highlight reflections from practitioners working across community, collaborative, and interdisciplinary spaces.

Want to share your story? Link in bio.

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05/12/2026

What is community art therapy?

Community-based art therapy brings people together through creative process, reflection, and shared experience. It expands art therapy beyond traditional clinical spaces into communities, cultural settings, workshops, schools, museums, and public programs.

At its core, it explores how art can support connection to self, to others, and to the communities we are part of.

Recently, we attended a virtual talk by Social Rx (.inc) and were inspired to hear their vision for social prescribing models in the United States. It also offered further reflection on how creative community spaces can support wellbeing, connection, and access to care in different ways.

05/09/2026

Today, on World Collage Day during Mental Health Awareness Month, we want say thank you to all of the artists, participants, facilitators, and community members who have shaped Art Therapy Lab’s collage-as-therapy workshops and collaborations over the years.

Collage continues to surface throughout our programs as both an creative and reflective practice. It is a medium that allows space for meaning-making, connection, and reflection through found images.

Through collaborations with Paris Collage Collective () and Kyiv Collage Collective (), we have witnessed how collage can function not only for self-expression, but also as cultural dialogue, community-building, and social action.

In honor of today, we especially want to highlight the work of Kyiv Collage School () in affiliation with KCC () CUTOUT Collage Festival (.festival) — platforms continuing to support collage artists, international exchange, and Ukrainian creative communities through art and collaborative practice.

The work featured here comes from Threading the Self, a workshop facilitated by Julia Volonts (.volonts) last May as part of Collage Dialogue: An International Exchange of Ideas, a series created by Kyiv Collage School () with support from House of Europe (.org.ua). The series brought together artists and practitioners from around the world through workshops centered on technique, creative exploration, and exchange of ideas.

In Threading the Self, Julia shared her collage practice integrating paper and thread, and reflected on how these materials inform her work as an art therapist.
The workshop invited participants to explore minimalism in collage and the act of sewing as a form of mindfulness. These collages are the result.

At a time marked by uncertainty, grief, displacement, and collective overwhelm, collage continues to offer a way to work with complexity through process, material, and shared creative space.

Once again, thank you to all who continue to create alongside us across countries, languages, and disciplines!

05/08/2026

Sharing reflections from Sevin Seda Güney, a UK-trained dance movement psychotherapist whose work explores movement, connection, participation, and collective wellbeing across a range of public and community contexts.

Drawing from over 15 years of experience working alongside interdisciplinary teams, Sevin reflects on the role of dance and movement therapy within community health, public arts, and collaborative care spaces — reminding us that everyone has a right to move, connect, and participate.

Thank you, Sevin, for sharing your reflections and work with our community.

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This post is part of our ongoing series: Art, Care, and Community: Practitioner Stories, where we continue to highlight reflections from practitioners working across community, collaborative, and interdisciplinary spaces.

Want to share your story? Link in bio.

04/26/2026

Community artwork from our recent workshop, created in collaboration with TEVEL (.earth):

The Earth That Lives in Me

In honor of Earth Month, this eco-art therapy experience invited us to explore the idea that we are not separate from nature, we are nature. Through reflection, art-making, and shared space, participants were encouraged to slow down and reconnect with the living world within and around them.

The workshop was guided by integrative eco-art therapists Mor Keshet () and Ariella Cook-Shonkoff () of TEVEL, and hosted by Julia Volonts (.volonts) of Art Therapy Lab. Together, we spent an hour creating, noticing, and holding space for what emerged.

We’re also aware that an hour felt far too short to hold everything this theme opens. We’ve already begun imagining our next collaboration, with more time and space for eco-based, climate-focused workshops that continue this exploration while connecting participants from around the world.

Thank you to everyone who joined with openness and curiosity, and for contributing to this collective piece.

15% of proceeds were donated to The Nature Conservancy. 🌱

04/22/2026

Last month, Art Therapy Lab invited creative arts therapists to share reflections from their work in community and collaborative spaces in honor of Creative Arts Therapies Week.

We received more submissions than we could share in one week, so we are continuing the series as:

Art, Care, and Community: Practitioner Stories

This title reflects the broader range of voices we also heard across the arts and health ecosystem, including artists, collaborators, researchers, and interdisciplinary practitioners. We hope this continuation highlights your perspectives while opening possibilities for how collaboration with creative arts therapists might take shape.

As we continue sharing submissions from Creative Arts Therapies Week alongside new voices, we are seeking reflections from those working where art, care, and community meet.

If you feel connected to this work, you’re invited to share your story.

Submit through the link in bio.

04/07/2026

Community art feature 🌱

Finally sharing collages created by Konstantina ( or ) during our Fall 2025 four-week The Art of Being Human group.

Each piece reflects an openness to create and a curiosity to explore the self through collage.

Thank you Konstantina! 🙏🏻
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The Art of Being Human starts this Thursday
a four-week virtual collage-as-therapy experience to connect in a small group, reflecting on creative burnout, uncertainty, expression, and the practice of simply being in the unknown. Each session supports self-expression, visual dialogue, and reflection

We offer this group once in the Fall and Spring. Six participants max.

04/02/2026

Social prescribing is a model of care where people are referred to non-clinical supports such as art, nature, and community as part of supporting wellbeing.

As these models expand, art is increasingly included in how care is offered across health and community contexts.

But what supports these experiences?

When art becomes part of care, the impact is not only shaped by the activity itself, but also by the environment and the way the space is held.

Art therapists working in community spaces bring intention to this facilitation, attending to emotional process, relational dynamics, and the ways people connect and make meaning through art-making.

This reflection is part of an ongoing curiosity at Art Therapy Lab around how art, care, and community intersect.

What has shaped your experience of creative spaces?

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