N/NY-GM-76 - Resin Techniques in Art Therapy: Creating Objects, Preserving Memories, Holding Meaning
Workshop participants are invited to explore resin as non-traditional media in art therapy. Presenters will introduce directives which invite meaning-making and memory honoring. Participants will learn basic resin techniques.
Objectives
1. Participants will be able to identify five ways in which resin, as an art media, could be used within a therapeutic context.
2. Participants will identify at least three traditional interventions which could be adapted using resin techniques.
3. Participants will identify important tips for success with resin.
Suggested Art Materials - Wesuggest Easy Cast brand; purchase a “kit;” it will have both parts, table cover, mixing cups, stirring sticks, and plastic pipettes.
- Forms: silicone molds, bezels, packing tape, and/or hot glue. Have a piece of cardboard handy to transport forms to a place to set overnight.
- Pigment suggestions (optional): food coloring, alcohol ink, mica powder, acrylic paint, or spices.
- Casting items suggestions: dried leaves, flowers, moss, seashells, beads or buttons, or images printed on water-proof (photo) paper. Wear clothes that can get messy!
Dr. Gaelynn Wolf Bordonaro
Dr. Gaelynn P. Wolf Bordonaro, ATR-BC is the Director of the Graduate Art Therapy Program at Emporia State University (ESU) in Emporia, KS, and a Professor in the ESU Department of Counselor Education. She is particularly interested in international art therapy trauma response programming, art therapy in schools, pediatric medical art therapy, and the use of photography and art therapy with children with medical and physical disabilities; she has presented on art therapy topics in Australia, Brazil, the Bahamas, Cyprus, England, Haiti, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Germany, South Africa, Thailand, and throughout the United States. She serves on the Art Therapy Credentials Board (ATCB) and is the Clinical Director of Communities Healing through Art (CHART). CHART’s mission is to assist and support academic and community institutions, in the United States and abroad, in the development of art therapy programs and curricula, particularly in response to natural and human-caused disasters. She has served four terms on the Board of Directors of the American Art Therapy Association (AATA). Wolf Bordonaro has written and facilitated state and private grants to provide art therapy services and programming for special populations in the USA and abroad, and has published multiple articles and chapters on art therapy.
