Try Art Therapy
Part 1
I Lead in.
a) Take two minutes to think of the associations with
the word ‘art’. Note down your ideas and compare them with other students.
b) Think of
your associations with the word ‘therapy’ –“a treatment that helps someone feel
better, grow stronger, especially after an illness”. How can art be used in
therapy? What are your ideas about art therapy?
II
Pronunciation focus. Look
at the phonetic symbols [ɪ], [aɪ]. How do you pronounce them? Put the words in the list in the
correct column based on the way you pronounce the underlined letters.
Listen or watch and check.
docent; display; recently; curator;
museum; collection; check; architect; designed;
contemplate
[s]
|
[k]
|
[tʃ]
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[z]
|
sea
|
cat
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chess
|
zoo
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III
Vocabulary focus. Match the words to their definitions. Use two words in your
sentences.
curator; check out; label; connection; architect; contemplate;
therapist
1. a
person in charge of a museum
2. someone
whose job is to treat a certain illness
3. someone
whose job is to design new buildings
4. to
examine something
5. a
piece of paper that gives you information about the object
6. to
spend a long time thinking
7. link
or association
IV Watch the video and choose the correct option to
complete the sentences.
1.
The speaker recently visited ____ and
learned quite a bit about herself.
a) a war museum b) an art museum c) an art installation
2.
The speaker was meeting up with not a
curator or docent or artist, but ______.
a) an art student b) an art
professor c) an art therapist
3.
The building was designed by ______
I.M. Pei.
a) painter b)
engineer c) architect
4.
This day was for free ______ and
introspection.
a) drawing b) association c) connected
5.
The speaker worked with a credentialed
art therapist to see what kinds of ____ they might draw between what she sees
and what she feels.
a) connections b) collector c) lectures
V Look at the artwork below. Think of the answers to the
questions:
A) What do you see when you look at this artwork?
B) What are your
associations with the work of art? What mood, feelings, and ideas do you see in
the work of art?
C) How do you feel when
you look at this work of art? Does it remind you of any object or situation in
your life?
VI
Vocabulary focus. Match the words to their definitions. Use four words in your
sentences.
wire; intricate; quilt; delicate; to affix; metaphor;
flexible; hold together; whole; to float;
transition
a)
a piece of thin metal thread
b)
a decorative cover for bed
c)
to stick together
d)
to move through air or water
e)
attractive and thin
f)
able to be bent without breaking
g)
having a lot of small parts arranged in a complex way
h)
imaginative way of describing something
i)
change from one action to another
j)
to keep something in one piece
k)
complete and not divided
VII Watch the video and fill in the gaps
with the words from the list. There are some words you don’t need to use.
metal; studio; artwork; delicate; material; stronger;
life; connecting; wall; therapist; soul; wire; tradition; question; delicious; world
Let’s start with this 1)______. We’re going to break from 2)_____ and not tell you at first who
made it, or when, or why. But we are going to look at it and ask ourselves objectively:
What do we see? I see lots of shiny little 3)______objects
held together by 4)______, joined into a kind of
quilt-like structure, which must be affixed to the wall but appears to be floating there, as if frozen in mid-motion. To me, it looks
5)______and flexible, but also
strong. Simultaneously intricate and stable. If you’re at the Eskenazi Museum
and working with their credentialed art 6)______,
Lauren Daugherty, she might then ask me to take it a step further and consider
whether I might find any metaphors in what I’ve described, or find a way of 7)______this object to my life. Perhaps
my life, like this artwork, is delicate and intricate, but 8)______and more stable than it looks. Someone else might look at
this artwork and say, it’s held together and on the 9)______, but it looks like it could fall off at any second. Maybe
that resonates with them and their 10)______,
that they’re held together, but barely. Lauren might first ask, "What
holds this object together?" And then transition to asking: “What holds
you together?” Then she might show you to the art-making 11)______where you could create art that relates to this 12)______in some way. She might ask you
to picture what your life would look like if the thing that was holding you
together wasn’t there. Alternatively she might ask them to envision what their
life would look like if what is missing was actually there. If their 13)______was whole, what would it look
like?
VIII Watch the
part of the video and mark the sentences as True (T) or False (F). Correct the
false statements.
1. The artwork in the
video is a painting of a quilt.
2. The artwork in the
video is affixed
to the wall.
3. The artwork in the
video looks thick and not flexible.
4. Art therapist, Lauren
Daugherty asks people to find a way of connecting this artwork to people’s
life.
5. Person’s life, like
this artwork, can be delicate and intricate.
6. Art therapists wants
to know what holds the artwork together and what holds person’s life together.
7. People go home and
create art that relates to the questions about artwork.
8. People try to picture
what their life would look like if the thing that was holding it together
wasn’t there.
IX
Vocabulary focus. Match the words to their definitions. Use four words in your
sentences.
approach; assumption; victim; response; landscape; abuse;
traumatic
a) a way of doing
something
b) something that you
accept as true without proof
c) shocking and painful
d) picture of the
countryside
e) someone who has been
hurt
f) cruel and violent
treatment of someone
g) answer or reaction
X Watch the video and choose the correct
option to complete the sentences.
The glory of this cockroach/coach/approach is that you don’t need to be an expert
about anything, and you can have productive experience/spear/experts even if the assumptions you make are
wrong. The art can be whatever you think it is, and you can go on a journey
based on what it looking/looks/hook like to you. If you thought
the El Anatsui work looked flexible/instability/flex,
but strong, what else in the galleries might represent that? Maybe we think
this little alligator dude looks strong. Or these figurative/figures/figured
exhibit strength. Or maybe we see a mask in the room that we think looks strong.
Perhaps someone else sees a depend/different/defend emotion in the mask,
which might lead to a discussion about the things you do and do not show the
world.
"What asked/make up/masks do you wear?"
Lauren also works with groups of young/youth/youngsters people who have
been through traumatic experiences. And she finds escape/skates/landscapes to be particularly useful in sparking
discussions among them. Let’s take this painting, for example. You know how in
Mary Poppins she takes the kids into the painting/planting/painter?
Well Lauren might ask her group to do the same: "Where do you belong in
this painting?" Sometimes darkness can be trauma/traumatize/traumatic for people, maybe for those who’ve been
victims of sexual abuse that happened only in the dark. Considering where they
would be standing, in the lighter areas or in the darker ones, can be a way to
begin a discuss/discussion/discussed
about extremely difficult topics. "What kind of things might happen if you
weren't in a safe place?" Often in their responses they’re building from
past experienced/periodic/experiences.
XI Watch the
part of the video and answer the questions.
1) Do people need to be specialists in
art and art history to have art therapy experience?
2) What images or artworks showing
strength does the video discuss?
3) What questions does art therapist
ask (note down 3 questions)?
4) What can people discuss when they
look at a landscape?
5) What associations can people have
with dark and light areas of the painting?
XII Watch
the video and fill in the gaps with the missing words.
But let’s consider where our safe
places might be in another 1)_____.
Perhaps we want to be in this 2)_____over
here. Or hidden up in the 3)_____. A
kid might joke and say, “I want to be hanging from that limb right there,” and
Lauren might ask, "Does that actually look safe to you. What would happen
if you fell?" One might say their 4)_____will
give them a hug and a band aid, and another might say their dad’s going to be
mad when they fall and break something and have to go to the 5)_____where it’s going to cost money.
Another might say they’d want to be away
from the shady looking guy with the stick. Another might think he doesn’t look
shady at all, that he’s stranded. Me? I’d be with the group of 6)_____right here, in the light.
They’re on the path. They know where they’re going. But someone else might not
find 7)_____in other people. Maybe
they say, “I don’t want people bugging me all the time.” That all tells Lauren
something, and gives her a 8)_____to
take her follow up questions.
XIII OVER TO
YOU. Try
elements of art therapy during your own (virtual visit) to a museum.
A.
Look at the list of the museums that offer virtual tour, and choose the
one you want to visit (on a virtual tour). (You can choose a different museum
if it offers a virtual tour but is not listed below);
B. Go on a
virtual tour of the museum of your choice. As you explore the collections do a
little art therapy exercise. Don’t try to find the information about the
paintings or other works of art that you see. Your feelings and associations
are more important than your knowledge of art history or techniques. During
your virtual tour of the museum find and get ready to briefly describe:
1. Find an
artwork that is a symbol of strength for you;
2. Find a
painting that you like. In your imagination ‘transport’ yourself into the
painting. Where are you in the painting (where is your place in the painting)?
3. Find an artwork
that you associate with your safe place.
C. Share
your ideas and experience with other students, get ready to briefly describe
the artworks that you chose in task B.
List of museums:
2. Guggenheim Museum, New York
4. Musée d’Orsay, Paris
5. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
6. Pergamon Museum, Berlin
7. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
8. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
9. The J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
10.Uffizi Gallery, Florence
11.MASP, São Paulo
12.National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City
5. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
6. Pergamon Museum, Berlin
7. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
8. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
9. The J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
10.Uffizi Gallery, Florence
11.MASP, São Paulo
12.National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City
