Career Pathways for Artists + Art Historians

Dominican University of California's Art Therapy students learn through practical experience and hands-on training guided by credentialed art therapist faculty. Our MA in Art Therapy programs are approved by the American Art Therapy Association (AATA).

The graduate program in Marital and Family Therapy with specialized training in Art Therapy offers students an innovative masters degree. Our students integrate visual arts and psychotherapeutic skills preparing them to become marital and family therapists in the state of California and nationally-registered art therapists. Partnering with numerous agencies in the Los Angeles basin for over 40 years, with our HBL Art Therapy Clinic, unique Mexico Summer Program, and the Art Therapy Research Institute, the department continues its commitment to service, multiculturalism and scholarship.

The Transpersonal Art Therapy concentration, offered as part of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling master’s degree, is a 62-credit-hour, three-year program that provides theoretical grounding in transpersonal psychology, contemplative studies, and art therapy along with rigorous clinical training. Naropa University’s graduate art therapy program seeks to prepare competent, entry-level art therapists in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.

By educating art therapy students to become accomplished clinicians, graduates of the Art Therapy Masters program help individuals and communities reach their full potential. The integration of theoretical and experiential learning forms the basis of the department’s educational process and creates a curriculum rich in critical and creative thinking to help students adopt innovative solutions to clinical issues. The Masters in Art Therapy and Creativity Development aims to create committed professionals who can utilize the creative process and aesthetic decision making in their clinical work enabling them to become leaders in the creative arts therapy field.

SAIC's Master of Arts in Art Therapy and Counseling (MAATC) program cultivates influential, compassionate leaders who are critically engaged with the social and cultural contexts surrounding artmaking and healing. The three-year curriculum is designed to foster critical thinking so that students are actively involved in creating the learning environment, questioning dominant discourses in the field, and taking part in the production of new ideas.

The MPS Art Therapy Program developed from a single undergraduate course in collaboration with the Bronx Psychiatric enter in New York City over three decades ago. The undergraduate certificate program, guided by its founder, Estelle Bellomo, expanded and developed affiliations in a variety of settings and gained a reputation for excellence in both academic and clinical training. Subsequent changes in the field of art therapy made a master’s degree program the natural progression, which was initiated in 2001.