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#8 Water-Color Pencils and Adults with Anxiety
Reflective Writing #8: Free Choice Population: Adult Disorder: Generalized Anxiety Disorder For the free choice I experimented with...
Dec 7, 20202 min read
#7 Zines and Adolescents with NSSID
Reflective Writing #7: Zines Population: Adolescents Disorder: Nonsuicidal Self-injury Disorder (NSSID) I created a zine using paper, cut...
Dec 7, 20202 min read
#6 Found Objects with Children and Trauma
Reflective Writing #6: Found Objects Population: Child Disorder: Reactive Attachment Disorder (Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders)...
Dec 7, 20202 min read
#5 El Duende with Older Adults and Bipolar Disorder
Reflective Writing #5: Mini El Duende Population: Older Adults Disorder: Bipolar II Disorder When creating my Mini El Duende I used a...
Dec 7, 20202 min read
#4 Sewing with Adults and Depression
Reflective Writing #4: Sewing, Aprellas, Story Cloth, Embroidery Population: Adult Disorder: Major Depressive Disorder While working on...
Dec 7, 20202 min read
#3 Knitting/Crochet with Children and Intermittent Explosive Disorder
Reflective Writing #3: Knitting or Crochet Population: Child Disorder: Intermittent Explosive Disorder (Disruptive, Impulse-Control and...
Dec 7, 20202 min read
#2 Clay with Adolescents and Dissociative Disorders
Reflective Writing #2: Clay Population: Adolescents Disorder: Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder (Dissociative Disorders) I used...
Dec 7, 20202 min read
#1 Papermaking and Older Adults with Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Reflective Writing #1: Papermaking Population: Older Adults Disorder: Major and Mild Neurocognitive Disorder Due to Alzheimer’s Disease...
Dec 7, 20202 min read
Sculpture/Adults with Somatic symptoms
For open choice I created a sculpture using chicken wire, plaster wrap, found materials and fabric. I chose sculpture because it feels...
Dec 6, 20203 min read
Zines with Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder
The zine has been and always is my least favorite media to explore. The zine felt very cognitive, which is not a place I enjoy creating...
Dec 6, 20202 min read
Printmaking for Children with ADHD
I chose printmaking as it is one of my favourite processes. It is a cognitive process that requires planning and a careful ordering of...
Dec 4, 20202 min read
Zines for Adolescents with Eating Disorders
I appreciate much about zines. Their anti-oppressive roots. How they are used to challenge dominant culture and reclaim power through...
Dec 4, 20202 min read
Found Object Art for Older Adults with Neurocognitive Disorders
I stumbled upon a beautiful quote online that made me think of found object art: “I am a mosaic of everyone I’ve ever loved.” I think...
Dec 4, 20202 min read
El Duende for Adults with Substance Use Disorders
I enjoyed engaging in an ongoing, evolving process. I was able to put down my painting, take a break, revisit it. I liked documenting the...
Dec 4, 20202 min read
Embroidery for Older Adults with Anxiety
I chose to embroider. This experience was meditative, repetitive, rhythmic, kinesthetic, and sensory. I enjoyed feeling the tension of...
Dec 4, 20202 min read
Knitting for Adolescents with Depression
My mom and grandma taught me to knit when I was a child. I never made anything more complicated than a basic scarf, or even completed a...
Dec 4, 20202 min read
Clay for Children with Impulse Control Disorders
I initially was frustrated with the process of clay making. Coming from a studio art background, with pottery and ceramics as one of my...
Dec 4, 20203 min read
Papermaking for Adults with Trauma
Papermaking is metaphorically and symbolically powerful. It is a process involving destruction, deconstruction, and transformation,...
Dec 4, 20202 min read
Clay: Adolescents with Eating Disorders
The clay I used was extra firm clay due to having it for a long time, and was clay meant for wheel throwing or hand building. I have a...
Dec 3, 20203 min read
Sewing/Embroidery: adult's with neurocognitive
I created a worry doll and an embroidery. I did both because while very similar, felt very different. I am having a hard time describing...
Dec 3, 20203 min read
Exploring Embroidery
CATX 631 Art Journals: Claire Picard Week 5: Sewing, Aprelleas, and Story Cloths Population: Adults Disorder: Bipolar Disorders...
Dec 3, 20202 min read
Circle Weaving to Combat Anxiety
Week 9: Weaving Population: Children Disorder: Anxiety Disorders For this art making process I chose to use a combination of both...
Dec 3, 20202 min read
Wire work with Adolescents
For my “free media” journal, I chose to engage in work with wire, creating the above photographed scene. I have worked with wire, or used...
Dec 3, 20202 min read
Zines with Older Adults
Zines. I have never actually made or participated in a zine before this class, thought I have definitely been exposed to them in the...
Dec 3, 20202 min read
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