Old Friends, Bookends: Art Educators and Art Therapists

Abstract

This viewpoint presents a reflection on a meaningful relationship that developed between a university art education department and a local art therapy studio. Such partnerships are desirable and mutually beneficial because of the significant interest many art educators have in the field of art therapy. The author, an art educator, describes the origins of the collaboration and the ways in which this partnership guides her practices as an art educator and impacts her art education students.

Acknowledgments

Editor's Note: Amanda Allison, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Art and the Coordinator of Art Education at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX. Correspondence concerning this viewpoint may be addressed to the author at