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Busy healthcare workers joined today’s Whitney Museum of American Art and NYC Health + Hospitals HHArt of Medicine workshop to create!

Today, through the amazing partnership between Whitney Museum of American Art and NYC Health + Hospitals, the HHArt of Medicine team offered our 25th workshop of 2025!!

Thank you Colorado Perinatal Mental Health Project for having me as your speaker in today’s PMH Lunchtime Series on an introduction into perinatal art therapy for holiday wellness.

Whether you’re yearning for a past, lost, or future love, feeling touched out but lonely, recovering from Covid, experiencing burnout with seasonal sensory overload or #fomo, overwhelmed by the state of your household and/or the world at large, or simply just can’t take the heat…trust that this season passes like all others, support is available, and you are not alone in your struggles.

Still glowing from Friday's incredible arts-based wellness retreat with mobile health workers via the NYC Health + Hospitals partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art called HHArt of Medicine.

The overhead view of artmaking in progress and scattered supplies beautifully captures the burst of creative energy that flowed through today’s wellness workshop. Busy, bright, layered, bold, playful!

This chilly Spring morning was spent exploring our inner and outer worlds inspired by Women's History Month and the bold mixed media art of Emma Amos.

What a gift to be able to spend this chilly Sunday in creative collaboration with The Drawing Center and The Creative Center during the 2025 Creative Center Training Institute for fellow clinicians, educators and creatives.

So grateful to have been able to provide a space for the fabulous clinical team at The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC) to creatively process all that is happening around and within them during an emotional election week.

Yesterday, I as able to witness the fact that live, in-person viewing of artwork elicits emotional and physiological responses that are 10x greater than viewing a reproduction or copy.

Francie Lyshak remains one of my most cherished mentors and role models as a published author and illustrator, brilliant art therapist, and prolific professional artist.

Just co-led another fantastic arts-based workshop for a team of diligent managers, directors, and administrators at one of our city’s largest and most diverse public hospitals and once again, learned something new from my participants.

Had a fabulous time co-presenting at today's BrainMind Summit NYC as part of the Arts Passport experience hosted at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Wow! What an inspiring morning sharing our Art-Centered Practice of Care with fellow creatives and museum professionals at the New York City Museum Educators Roundtable conference at Columbia University Teacher's College in NYC. 

Yesterday was our first arts-based workshop of the autumn season provided for a dynamic group of administrators, physicians, and clinicians at Elmhurst Hospital Center along with my esteemed colleague from the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The use of art as therapy has countless benefits for one's overall well-being. Creating “art for art’s sake” is an exercise of self-care that can cultivate self-compassion and aid in healing.

A recent "Discover" magazine article highlighted the benefits of visual art exposure on mental health. Viewing visual art activates the same brain reward systems as other pleasurable, highly sensory activities.

Aside from individual and group therapy, I offer arts-based wellness workshops as a chance for these populations to reconnect with their "inner artists" and immerse themselves in a much needed creative self-care break.