ITA Commemorates Partnership Event with Four Star Arts, Side-by-Side by Sondheim After months of planning, promotion, choreography, and rehearsals, Side-by-Side by Sondheim: A Musical Celebration was ready to raise the curtain. Performers of Four Star Arts Theatre Company took the stage at Nichols Concert Hall Saturday, August 12 at 7:30pm to perform a rendition derived […]
ITA and Northwestern Coordinate Tuning Into the Musical Mind Event
Professionals Join Teams to Back Music-Based Healing Awareness On June 25th, ITA Executive Director Jenni Rook and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Professor Dr. Borna Bonakdarpour teamed up for Tuning Into the Musical Mind — an educational event filled with cutting-edge dialogue that addressed the capacity for the human brain to respond constructively to […]
ITA Holds 2nd Annual Integrated Creative Arts Therapy Conference
New Tradition is Established as Mental Health Professionals Come Together for Similar Cause Last month, we met a milestone as ITA held its Second Annual Integrated Creative Arts Therapy Conference, “Building Connections Creatively.” The weekend of June 2nd marked the first founding anniversary of our gathering of mental health professionals to discuss research and developments […]
ITA Out and About: Making Music at the Library
ITA Intern Bradley Drozdowski at the Evanston Public Library’s Parent Child Workshop on May 13! Music Therapy intern Bradley Drozdowski attended the Parent Child Workshop event at the Evanston Public Library on May 13th to make music with young children and to talk about the positive effects of music and music therapy during early childhood […]
Go Camping with ITA!
ITA Partners with Chicago Camps and Summer Programs for 2017 This summer, ITA is thrilled to provide creative arts therapy (again!) at Camp Hope, Camp Kangaroo, Camp Neeka, and The Cove School. We hope you or your family will join us for one of these summer experiences that focus on support, growth, learning, and creativity. Edward Cancer Center’s Camp […]
ITA Opens Doors to Rush AARTS Center
Clinical Research Coordinator Anthony Burns Gets Inside View of ITA Intake Process On Wednesday, March 29th, Autism Assessment Research Treatment and Services Center (AARTS Center) employee, Anthony Burns visited Institute for Therapy through the Arts for a first-hand experience of the entailments of our intake process. Burns, a clinical research coordinator at the AARTS Center with […]
Are there changes being made in Creative Arts Therapy Training?
ITA Hosts a Professors’ Forum Panel at the 2nd Annual Integrated Creative Arts Therapy Conference to Discuss Recent Developments and Issues in Training and Education In the last several years there has been much fodder regarding the ever-changing climate of the workplace and professional environments as result of the new generation’s job preparation and expectations. […]
Forging Ahead: Institute for Therapy through the Arts Hosts Very First Benefit
Rooted in the Arts Marks New Milestone for ITA Fundraising Efforts Evanston’s retiring Mayor, Elizabeth Tisdahl was acknowledged for her outstanding service to the community on April 28, 2017 at the Institute for Therapy through the Arts’ 1st annual celebration: Rooted in the Arts. The event, emceed by NBC-5’s Christian Farr, paid tribute to Tisdahl’s […]
No Tip Toeing Around This Conversation
ITA Invites Dialogue on the Scope of Practice of the Therapeutic Arts at the 2nd Annual Creative Arts Therapy Conference In the landscape of the therapeutic arts, ITA comes to recognize the rise of interest and use of creative art forms as a helping tool. In its 41 years of operation, ITA has stood by […]
ITA Music Therapy Intern Bradley Drozdowski Presents at Illinois Student Assistance Commission
ITA Intern Bradley Drozdowski Presents to Illinois Student Assistance Commission on April 18 on Defining Music Therapy Music Therapy intern Bradley Drozdowski gave a 60-minute presentation at the Illinois Student Assistance Commission in Deerfield, IL titled “An Introduction to Music Therapy.” ISAC is an organization dedicated to making college education more affordable and accessible for […]
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