Mia de Bethune

Education

BFA, Rhode Island School of Design; MA, New York University; PhD, Lesley University

Professional experience includes

Art therapist and primary therapist: Linden Hill School, Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services; arts enrichment coordinator and art therapy supervisory, The Children’s Village; art therapist, Hospice and Palliative Care of Westchester

One-person exhibitions include

Donald Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY; SAI Gallery; Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, NY

Group exhibitions include

Upstream Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY; Prince Street Gallery; Veridian Gallery; Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY; b.j. spoke gallery, Huntington, NY; 440 Gallery; Haverstraw Riverarts and Music Festival, NY; North Castle Public Library, Armonk, NY; Womenswork Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY; Pelham Art Center, NY

Publications include

Journal of the American Art Therapy Association; Art Therapy Through the Lifespan: A Collection of Case Studies; 500 Paper Objects

Presentations include

 “Critical pleasure inquiry,” “The embodied art therapist,” School of Visual Arts; “Weaving the golden thread: What happens when we unravel?,” American Art Therapy Conference; “Body-based and embodied art therapy: Pilot research,” American Art Therapy Conference, U.S. Association of Body Psychotherapy Conference, Integrated Creative Art Therapy Conference; “Therapeutic bookmaking,” Expressive Arts Therapy Summit; “The transition to home hospice care,” New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital

Awards and honors include

Rawley Silver Research Award, American Art Therapy Association; Ellen Horovitz Spirituality in Art Therapy Scholarship, American Art Therapy Association