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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
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
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
Found Object Sculpture with Children
Found object work is definitely not something that I find myself gravitating toward in any sense. In fact, it was not even something that...
Dec 3, 20202 min read
Story Cloths with Older Adults
For my exploration of media this week I chose a perhaps non-traditional approach to the story cloth. I chose to engage in a form of story...
Dec 3, 20202 min read
Making Tiles with Children
I am very lucky to have the access to, and the privilege of, working in clay on an almost daily basis. Clay is what brought me back to...
Dec 3, 20202 min read
Paper-making with Adolescents
I was afraid of papermaking. There I said it. It felt like it would be messy, and it required a lot of special equipment that I did not...
Dec 3, 20202 min read
Making Paper: A Transformative Experience: adults/trauma
I began the paper making process by collecting scrap paper that had meaning for me, in which I chose hospital bills and discharge papers...
Dec 3, 20203 min read
Using Clay with Older Adults
CATX 631 Art Journals: Claire Picard Week 3: Clay Population: Older Adults Disorder: Neurocognitive Disorders As an artist, I typically...
Dec 3, 20203 min read
Paper-making with Adolescents
CATX 631 Art Journals: Claire Picard Week 2: Paper-making Population: Adolescents Disorder: Feeding and Eating Disorders I made paper...
Dec 3, 20202 min read
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