People's Art

04/21/2026

Is feeling irregular something you hide or lean into?

04/16/2026

🌿 Our founder went back to school! Delaine is working towards a PhD in Creative Arts Therapies at Drexel University in Philadelphia and has been awarded a research fellowship!

🌎 Living in two time zones to bring new art therapy research skills to the Rogue Valley!

🦋( I’m Ayla and I’m helping keep up to date on Instagram while Delaine studies! Not a robot )

04/06/2026

A free, fun, and thought provoking listen! 🎧

🌿Blending humor with insight, Torres shows how something as ordinary as color theory can become a lens for understanding identity, culture, and creativity. It’s quirky, thoughtful and genuinely funny.

03/30/2026

🌿 Sometimes one of the only things we have power over is our perspective. Even a gloomy day, or a tough situation can be changed with radical positivity. 🌥️

03/21/2026

“I’d rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.” - Helen Frankenthaler

(Art by Helen Frankenthaler)

03/18/2026

How do you experience green?

03/05/2026

🌿 Sometimes wellness is slowing down, taking a breath and noticing the beauty around you.

⛰️ The atmosphere here in Southern Oregon can be very healing to the nervous system. From the mountains to the meadows, from the streams to the trees.

🌲 The connection between nature, creativity and healing is reflected in the People’s Art (creative arts therapy) program here in the Rogue Valley.

✨ Today’s Invitation:
Find a view that inspires you or brings you a sense of calmness. Take a picture and share with your community to keep the inspiration flowing.

02/26/2026

When words fall short, colors speak.🎨🩵

09/21/2025

The Creative’s Drama. Ever heard yourself or someone else say you are not creative, artist, musician, dancer, poet, actor….? It’s a pervasive victim attitude in our culture. I wonder how to work with that and support a shift to creator empowerment without rescuing or blaming.

09/21/2025

a full day of teaching about art-based psychological first aid by Delaine. This is a very sweet and very well produced regional art therapy symposium. A pleasure and an honor to be asked to present.

09/20/2025

I wish Southern Oregon schools were poised to follow up with a pre-art therapy program. Congrats to my colleague Ryan Arizona State University

For 15 years or so, the Intro to Art Therapy class I taught at SOU was the only UG education in art therapy offered in the entire West Coast. So many students have asked for more pre-art therapy education at SOU over the last two decades. I've offered my expertise and it never goes anywhere. Very little follow through even on a simple email from multiple departments.
Many attempts, zero follow through. Lots of excuses.

If you are a student or former student interested in the field of art therapy and wish you could get a solid foundation for entering graduate studies in art therapy (required to be an art therapist), get a message to the Art Department.

From Hurricane Katrina survivors to Alzheimer's patients, art therapy has proved a powerful form of healing. But because the practice blends both art and psychology, many undergraduate paths to a career in the field require students to pursue psychology first and art second (or vice versa).

09/07/2025

The Buckeye Art Therapy Asssociation (BATA) has it goin' on. What a wonderful symposium. Teaching and learning all over the place.