Signature Events

The Opening Colloquium

Early in the fall semester all students attend the Opening Colloquium, a weekend of immersion in art making and therapeutic process held in a lodge setting in the hills of Southern Wisconsin. This weekend sets the tone for the academic year and begins the work of developing the art therapy community.

The Spring Symposium

Each Spring Mount Mary College hosts an annual art therapy symposium which brings together practicing art therapists and students from the Midwest region forming one of the larges gatherings in the U.S.

The symposium features a keynote presentation by nationally known speakers and presentations and workshops by art therapy educators and practitioners.

This year's symposium is scheduled for April 17, 2009. Look for details coming soon.

Nicaragua Summer Internship

In Summer 2008, an exciting opportunity for an international internship was coordinated through the Art Therapy Department. The internship in Managua, Nicaragua provided students an exceptional opportunity to deepen and renew a sense of responsibility for the world and to act with compassion as art therapists who aspire to live with gratitude and commitment to social justice and the common good. Students spent between 100 and 200 hours of supervised, intensive, hands-on art therapy work as part of their internship. Social action projects involved art therapy with preschoolers, special needs children, at-risk adolescents, domestic violence and gender education, or rural environmentalists.