Module 4 – Art therapy and public art

  • How can you use a public museum?
  • Which works can you use at the Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK) with a client?
  • The 3 trauma components:
    • Biological
    • Psychological
    • The trauma of social
  • What online options can you explore about public art as therapy?

Benefit for practitioners:

  • Can explain why art and creativity in society is important for relief work
  • Has insight into exercises and concepts
  • Can facilitate the exercises based on own professionalism and ethics

The module contains:

  • Intro to community art as trauma treatment
  • A museum tour at SMK with Aglaia, who explains how art can help. A guided tour with a story about the famous paintings for hope and relief
  • Intro to public art with tools
  • Recovery processes
  • Exercise 1: Creating community to support public art.
  • Exercise 2: create your own work of art: Embodied consciousness and being in society.
  • Public art with a focus on facilitation and group work.

Read more about museum visits as recovery here.