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.