50 Max, Children ages 5+

English with Live Spanish Interpretation 

Join us for hands-on art making as a family.  In this workshop, you will find all the ingredients necessary to create an art piece together and to connect with each other in new and meaningful ways.  Learn how to encourage, share, and accept each other’s creative self-expression through the principles of art therapy. A printed recipe for the activity will be given to all participants so they can continue to serve up these opportunities at home. This session is most appropriate for children ages 5 and up. Special adaptations will be available for teens and tweens.

Affiliation: Loyola Marymount University Department of Martial and Family Therapy, with specialization in Art Therapy

Instructor bios:

Amber L. Cromwell, LMFT, ATR-BC, is a board-certified art therapist and arts educator. She is a Clinical Supervisor in the Helen B. Landgarten clinic and Co-Director of The Summer Arts Workshop for Loyola Marymount University’s Department of Martial and Family Therapy with Specialization in Art Therapy. She also has a private practice and provides art therapy group services in the Los Angeles Unified School District through the Cedars-Sinai Share & Care program.

Jessica Bianchi, EdD, ATR-BC, LMFT, is a Clinical Assistant Professor and the Director of the Helen B. Landgarten Art Therapy Clinic at Loyola Marymount University in the Department of Marital and Family Therapy with specialized training in Art Therapy. Jessica has over a decade of experience working as an educator and a therapist with diverse populations including system-impacted youth, incarcerated mothers and their children, kindergarten through high school aged youth in public and non-public school settings, teachers, and medical students. In addition, she also provides therapeutic services to adults, couples, families, and youth in her private practice.