Art Therapy Lab - where art meets mental health.

Art Therapy Lab - where art meets mental health. We offer art therapy experiences in virtual and community spaces to connect people 🌎 & make services more accessible.

Finally sharing from the Art Therapy Lab International Residency in Latvia at Studija () this summer 🌿Our 2025 cohort br...
10/07/2025

Finally sharing from the Art Therapy Lab International Residency in Latvia at Studija () this summer 🌿

Our 2025 cohort brought together art therapists, artists, art educators, and arts-in-health professionals from around the world, including Germany, Canada, Japan, Singapore, the United States, Latvia, Lithuania, Greece, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

This year’s program was inspired by gardening as both concept and practice. We collaborated with Latvian Landscape Architect and Urbanist Ilze Rukšane (), participants engaged in immersive outdoor experiences through natural dyeing workshops, forest therapy meditations, and nature walks that invited connection to plants, place, and community.

We are slowly sharing more reflections and images from this year’s residency and are grateful for the community that formed through this experience.

Special 🫶🏻 to our residency co-organizer Maija Rudovska (), independent curator and founder of Studija, for her continued commitment to exploring the intersections of art and well-being with us.

Additional gratitude to Edgars () and Annija () for their support on our team this year, and to Annemarie () for thoughtful preparation and organization.

ATL founder and co-organizer Julia Volonts (.volonts) will be presenting this week at the American Art Therapy Association Conference on the design and outcomes of our 2024 pilot year.

More to come 💐

Welcome to Art Therapy Lab, we are glad you’re here.Art Therapy Lab connects people worldwide to experience how art heal...
10/03/2025

Welcome to Art Therapy Lab, we are glad you’re here.

Art Therapy Lab connects people worldwide to experience how art heals. We are a space for those with an interest in art and a curiosity for self-growth.

For those who are new, welcome.
For those who have been with us, we have missed you.

Over the past months, we have been busy with the residency, brainstorming, and practicing self-care, and now we are ready to be back.

We wanted to say hello and reintroduce who we are and how Art Therapy Lab continues to grow.

Our work focuses on:
• Community-based practice
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Accessible programming

… at the intersections of art therapy and arts in health.

Since our first virtual workshop in 2021, Art Therapy Lab has grown into a small, independent platform offering:
• Virtual groups and workshops
• A summer residency in Latvia
• Mentorship opportunities for those exploring art therapy and arts in health

Founded and directed by .volonts, a licensed and board-certified art therapist and educator based between the U.S. and Europe, Art Therapy Lab is evolving its research identity into a space of dialogue and collaboration between art therapy and the. broader arts in health movement, exploring how both fields can work together to support ethical and socially responsible community care.

As we move forward, we hope to connect more deeply with our existing community and continue building an international network curious about how art heals and how we can grow together.

Join our community of creative self-explorers from over 45 countries by signing up for our newsletter with updates and upcoming opportunities.

Sign up via the link in bio. 💐

We are thrilled to welcome the 2025 Art Therapy Lab International Residency cohort!This year’s group brings together cre...
07/17/2025

We are thrilled to welcome the 2025 Art Therapy Lab International Residency cohort!

This year’s group brings together creatives, art therapists, and healing practitioners from around the world, each offering a unique voice, practice, and vision.

2025 Residency Cohort:
Yang Yo Kim (AE/JP)
Monica McGarry (USA)
Michelle Cohn (USA)
Geraldine Kang (SG)
Lucy Steggals (UK)
Anna Luisa Franzen (DE)
Jelizaveta Krotova (LT)
Melissa-Anne Cobbler (CA)
EfstathiaDionysopoulou (NL/GR)
Mairita Coņeva (LV)

Some thoughts & curiosities about then upcoming program:
“I am particularly interested in how the environment shapes creative practices, as well as in questions of materials’ reinvention/reuse and their interrelation with resilience.

These observations will be valuable to both my research and creative practice, and I hope they will also inform the intersection between the two, enriching each with perspectives grounded in lived, collective experiences.“ - Efstathia Dionysopoulou, Greece/Netherlands

“I’m curious to learn from individuals who are invested in addressing mental health in art and how to navigate between the role of therapist and artist.

I’m also curious about new ways to think about space and landscape in relation to mental health.” - Geraldine Kang, Singapore

“I’m curious how the people, history, and landscape of Kuldīga will shape the way I create and connect. I’m excited to be in dialogue with others who are navigating the overlaps between art, care, and ecology.

What new patterns, insights, or questions will surface through shared time, materials, and space?“ - Michelle Cohn, USA

“I’m interested in this residency for two main reasons: professional growth as a mental health professional and personal development as a creator.“ - Jelizaveta Krotova, Lithuania

07/14/2025

How do you take art therapy out of the clinical space? Honoured to virtually travel to Notre Dame of Maryland University in Baltimore to talk about my own successes and struggles in implementing the community-based project "Shared Lines" for the Amsterdam West neighbourhoods aiming to foster connection and resilience through playing, movement and art materials.

Shared Lines Community link: https://www.instagram.com/art_therapy_shared_lines/

Kindly invited by Julia Volonts LCAT ATR-BC Art Therapy Lab - where art meets mental health., mentor and pioneer in the field of preventative mental health as well as community based projects.

We’re getting ready — Introducing the 2025 Art Therapy Lab International Residency program & team.Our 2025 Residency the...
06/25/2025

We’re getting ready — Introducing the 2025 Art Therapy Lab International Residency program & team.

Our 2025 Residency theme:
Inspired by gardening as both a concept and practice, this year’s residency centers on the cultivation of spaces where needs are met, growth is nurtured, and meaningful learning takes place.

By honoring the aesthetic and visionary aspects of the garden, participants will explore its metaphorical potential to address existential themes of community, sustainability, and connection — bridging these ideas with contemporary culture and art therapy practices.

Meet the team:
Julia Volonts is a licensed art therapist, educator, and founder of Art Therapy Lab, an evolving space for art therapy, research, and connecting community around the world. .volonts

Maija Rudovska is an independent curator, art historian, and educator whose work bridges critical theory, cultural research, and contemporary art through community-engaged projects across the Baltics and beyond.

Annemarie Reichenbach is a cultural researcher, artist, and community lead at Art Therapy Lab, committed to fostering inclusive, embodied, and interdisciplinary creative spaces grounded in care, resilience, and social transformation.

Ilze Rukšāne is a landscape architect, urbanist, and co-founder of ALPS, whose work centers on collaborative public space design and the transformative potential of healing landscapes.

More info: www.arttherapy-lab.com/residency

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Meet Annemarie, a behind-the-scenes gem of Art Therapy Lab.This post is long overdue, but I want to give a shoutout to A...
05/21/2025

Meet Annemarie, a behind-the-scenes gem of Art Therapy Lab.

This post is long overdue, but I want to give a shoutout to Annemarie () and introduce her here.

Based in Germany, Annemarie first reached out after following my art therapy work (back when I was still just Julia Volonts (.volonts), before Art Therapy Lab had officially begun). While I was traveling to Berlin two years ago, she reached out, and we ended up hosting a pop-up collage event together at .

She later centered her graduate thesis on the launch of the ATL Residency, asking:
What relations and knowledges emerge from interdisciplinary art therapy projects?

After joining us in Kuldīga, she became ATL’s first Research Assistant and Coordinator as we shape our research identity with intention and care. Annemarie is inspiring in her passion for ATL’s mission and endless patience with my wild, ever-evolving ideas (some that stick, some that get saved for later).

This week, she is attending the Arts Health Research Intensive in England with UCL, the WHO-Jameel Arts & Health Lab (), and the University of Florida to deepen her work as an arts in health researcher exploring post-qualitative, arts-based approaches for worlds in transition.

Congrats and see you in Kuldīga soon for our second ATL residency with !

In celebration of World Collage Day, Art Therapy Lab invites you to take part in an [in-person] collaborative collage-ma...
05/07/2025

In celebration of World Collage Day, Art Therapy Lab invites you to take part in an [in-person] collaborative collage-making experience during the art exhibition A[MENDED] Spring, organized by and

Join anytime between 12–5pm at in Frederick, MD (USA) to contribute to a living mural—an evolving collage shaped by responsiveness, visual dialogue, and community participation.

No prior experience necessary. Founder and Art Therapist Julia Volonts will be present to hold space, support the process, and share how collage is used in art therapy.

Thank you to all that joined the Visual Studio Series last Sunday. We appreciate everyone’s openness to create, share, ...
05/02/2025

Thank you to all that joined the Visual Studio Series last Sunday. We appreciate everyone’s openness to create, share, and connect with people from different parts of the world.

Designed in collaboration with Graduate Art Therapists-in-Training from the at the and ATL Founder .volonts, this workshop was all about exploring materials as play to embrace the inner child.

Here are some final collages from participants , , , , and .

Future PCC workshops TBA in the Fall!

🙏🏻✂️

Collage, create, and connect this Sunday, April 27, in the last Art Therapy Lab x Paris Collage Collective Virtual Studi...
04/23/2025

Collage, create, and connect this Sunday, April 27, in the last Art Therapy Lab x Paris Collage Collective Virtual Studio Series before it breaks for the Summer.

Each workshop is designed and facilitated in collaboration with Graduate Art Therapists-in-Training from the School of Visual Arts NYC Art Therapy Program: and .volonts for the community.

Details: March 23rd at 12:00 EST / 17:00 CET. Online via Zoom. Free to attend. 2 hours.

Some spots left - DM or email hello@arttherapy-lab.com to register.

Thank you PCC for this ongoing collaboration! ✂️

Art Therapy Lab is back to back with weekend workshops this month! Collage, create, and connect this Sunday, March 23, i...
03/21/2025

Art Therapy Lab is back to back with weekend workshops this month!

Collage, create, and connect this Sunday, March 23, in the next Art Therapy Lab x Paris Collage Collective Virtual Studio Series.

Each workshop is designed and facilitated in collaboration with Graduate Art Therapists-in-Training from the School of Visual Arts NYC Art Therapy Program: and .volonts for the community.

Details: March 23rd at 12:00 EST / 17:00 CET. Online via Zoom. Free to attend. 2 hours.

Few spots left - DM or email hello@arttherapy-lab.com to register. ✂️

In honor of Creative Arts Therapies Week, we are excited to share some artwork from our Create Kindness workshop last Su...
03/20/2025

In honor of Creative Arts Therapies Week, we are excited to share some artwork from our Create Kindness workshop last Sunday!

Designed for the community to visually explore kind words have felt meaningful, whether they were offered by others or were directed towards oneself. Asking the overall question: What if kindness was contagious?

Not only were all kinds of artistic media spread across the tables - creation evolved around noticing that kindness spans all life phases, age groups and into the environment, even if not always realised at first.

Thank you to everyone who joined us as we try to hold creative space for the questions of our time, together.

Artwork with captions by: aretz .

Witness more art and the conversation of unfold .art

In honor of Creative Arts Therapies Week, we are excited to share some artwork from our Create Kindness workshop last Su...
03/20/2025

In honor of Creative Arts Therapies Week, we are excited to share some artwork from our Create Kindness workshop last Sunday!

Designed for the community to visually explore kind words have felt meaningful, whether they were offered by others or were directed towards oneself. Asking the overall question: What if kindness was contagious?

Not only were all kinds of artistic media spread across the tables - creation evolved around noticing that kindness spans all life phases, age groups and into the environment, even if not always realised at first.

Thank you to everyone who joined us as we try to hold creative space for the questions of our time, together.

Artwork by: aretz and more

Witness more art and the conversation of unfold .art

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