Creative Life Changes Through Artistic Expression
About this Group
The Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology is offering an Art Therapy Workshop for individuals who have or have had cancer. A variety of art techniques, such as automatic drawing, expressive painting, collage, and cut outs are used to explore topics related to health and life changes. Experimenting with unfamiliar methods and materials can lead to the expression of personal metaphors for loss, bodily changes, new career choices, re-evaluating relationships and an appreciation for life and hope for the future. Group discussion is stimulated when members share their artwork with one another.
This group provides opportunities for healing through self-expression by giving voice to losses and fears and offering an active approach to integrating the experience of illness into the self.
What You Should Expect From Groups
Facilitator
Esther Dreifuss-Kattan, PhD, ATR, is an art therapist/psychoanalyst who has worked extensively with cancer patients and is the author of Cancer Stories: Creativity and Self-Repair.
Schedule
Wednesdays
1:30pm – 3:30pm
6 – 8 week sessions
Location
Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology
200 UCLA Medical Plaza, Suite 502
Los Angeles, CA 90095-6934
TO ENROLL
For more information, or to enroll, please call the Simms/Mann – UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology at 310-794-6644 or email SimmsMannCenter@mednet.ucla.edu.
Art Samples
Making art can be a restorative process that assists in the cancer journey. Members of the “Healing Through Art group” at the Center created this artwork. The images below are a sampling of the work produced in the group over many years.
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- Art Task: Create a “Pandora’s Box”.
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- Art Task: Outlook of 2008, a new year. Magazine Collage
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- Art Task: Use sculpture materials to make a “totem” for yourself.
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- Art Task: Personal Still Life: Acrylic Paintings
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- Art Task: Imagine a rebirth after finishing treatment.
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- Art Task: Make a “pinch pot” out of clay.
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- Art Task: Create a “Pandora’s Box”.
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- Art Task: Create a goddess of reasonable goals.
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- Art Task: Express today’s strong feeling with colored masking tape.
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- Art Task: Home work: A Graphic Diary Page
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- Art Task: Personal Still Life: Acrylic Paintings
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- Art Task: Illustrate how you are feeling today.
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- Art Task: Make an altar in a box. (This project is not religious unless by choice).
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- Art Task: Create a “Pandora’s Box”.
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- Art Task: Express today’s strong feeling with colored masking tape.
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- Art Task: Personal Still Life: Acrylic Paintings
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- Art Task: Feelings about Cancer
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- Art Task: Make a vessel or container out of clay that represents yourself
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- Art Task: Express today’s strong feeling with colored masking tape.
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- Art Task: Feelings about Cancer
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- Art Task: Express today’s strong feeling with colored masking tape.
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- Art Task: Home work: A Graphic Diary Page
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- Art Task: Make an altar in a box. (This project is not religious unless by choice).
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- Art Task: Use sculpture materials to make a “totem” for yourself.
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- Art Task: Trace your body.
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- Art Task: Home work: A Graphic Diary Page
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- Art Task: Feelings about Cancer
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- Art Task: Trace, cut out, and decorate your hand.
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- Art Task: Home work: A Graphic Diary Page
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- Art Task: Make an altar in a box. (This project is not religious unless by choice).
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- Art Task: Trace your body.
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- Art Task: Outlook of 2008, a new year. Magazine Collage
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- Art Task: Outlook of 2008, a new year. Magazine Collage
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- Art Task: Make an altar in a box. (This project is not religious unless by choice).
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- Art Task: Draw your cancer
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- Art Task: Outlook of 2008, a new year. Magazine Collage
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- Art Task: Personal Still Life: Acrylic Paintings
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- Art Task: Feelings about Cancer