Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories From The Legacy of Edith Kramer (NY-PP5051)
Panels
Susan Anand, MA, ATR-BC, ATCS, LPAT
Susan Ainlay Anand, MA, ATR-BC, ATCS, LPAT, is a graduate of the NYU art therapy program where she was trained by Edith Kramer. She has worked with children and adults in inpatient and outpatient settings for over the past thirty years. As an instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Susan provides art therapy services and teaches residents about art therapy. She also facilitates two groups at the Mississippi Museum of Art - Art in Mind, a group for adults with memory loss and the Creative Healing Studio, a group for adults with cancer. Susan has published book chapters, journal articles, and is the co-editor of The Legacy of Edith Kramer: A Multifaceted View (2018). In 2015, she co-founded the Indian Art Therapy Discussion Forum devoted to the development of the profession of art therapy in India. Susan provides workshops and training on art therapy in the US and other countries.
Lani Gerity, DA, ATR
Lani Gerity, D.A., ATR is an art therapist, artist, & puppet maker. She holds a doctorate from NYU in Art Therapy and is an ATR through ATCB. She continues to write, lead workshops, teach and supervise in Canada and in the US.
Laurie Wilson, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM
Laurie Wilson, Ph.D. LPC, ATR-BC HLM is Professor Emerita and Former Director of NYU's Graduate Art Therapy Program. She is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at The Institute for Psychoanalytic Education Affiliated with NYU School of Medicine. She practices in New York City and has published widely in three fields (art therapy, art history and psychoanalysis) including Alberto Giacometti: Myth, Magic and the Man (Yale, 2003) and Louise Nevelson :Light and Shadow (Thames & Hudson, 2016)
Elizabeth Stone, MA, ATR-BC, LP, LCAT
Elizabeth Stone MA, ATR-BC, LP, LCAT is in private practice in Grenoble, France as an art therapist and psychoanalyst, and licensed in New York State. She moved to Europe from New York where she had been on the graduate art therapy faculty of New York University, after receiving her MA there and her psychoanalytic training at the New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She has been involved in the training and supervision of art therapists in Italy, France, Switzerland and the US for over thirty years. As an author on art therapy from a psychoanlytic perspective, she presently teaches psychology in English at the Catholic University of Lyon. She also has served as a past chair of the AATA Ethics Committee.
Martha Haeseler, MA, ATR-BC
Martha Haeseler, ATR-BC, art therapist, educator, and fiber artist, retired director of an outpatient VA psychiatry program, has published and presented widely in the areas of art therapy with adolescents, groups and veterans; eating disorders; psychosis; ethics; trauma; cultural considerations, positive psychology, military culture, healing gardens, and outsider art.
Michael Franklin, PhD, ATR-BC
Michael A. Franklin, PhD, ATR-BC, is Chair of the Transpersonal Art Therapy program and founder of the Naropa Community Art Studio at Naropa University in Boulder Colorado. Prior to Naropa, he practiced as a clinician and directed the art therapy programs at the College of St. Teresa and Bowling Green State University. Michael is an international lecturer and has published numerous articles on various subjects including aesthetics, self-esteem, AIDs iconography, interpretive strategies, empathic methods, community-based socially engaged art therapy, Transpersonal art therapy, and contemplative approaches to clinical practice. His recent book, Art as Contemplative Practice: Expressive Pathways to the SELF, integrates his research interests in the areas of art therapy, social engagement, yoga philosophy, and meditation.
The panelists, who knew Edith Kramer, will share informal life stories that have inspired us. We hope that they will bring out what is best in all of us and help us to find our gravitas and backbone, our resilience, our contemplative stillness and generosity, for present and future generations.