Start the New Year off right with an inspiring vision collage with talented Art Therapist, Erin Partridge. She will guide us through her creative technique of envisioning the new year and putting ideas down on canvas, with collage, drawing and painting. No art experience necessary! Light refreshments will be served.

Erin Partridge is an artist and board-certified, registered art therapist living on a ranch in Lafayette. Her clinical experience includes work in community, pediatric, forensic, and geriatric settings. Erin received a BFA, studying fine art, psychology and women’s studies in at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. She went onto obtain a MA in art therapy from New York University in 2008; her thesis work was about her work with a young child with Mobius syndrome and tactile defensiveness. She completed her PhD in art therapy at Notre Dame de Namur in 2016. Her dissertation work investigated the communication experiences in the elder care setting through art-based and participatory inquiry. Since then she has done research on sensory loss and the use of social robots in older adult settings. She has two books with Jessica Kingsley Publishers and many chapters and peer-reviewed publications across a variety of topics.

$20/person, all materials included.

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