Nina Ross, PhD

Tonite in my studio, we began another 5 week art therapy group for women. As always, I tell people before we start the art-making, ” You don’t have to know what you’re doing or where you’re going in the art process.” And, as per usual, when we finish art making and check in with each person and their art, there is something that does know what it wants to express. Call it the unconscious, or an innate, intuitive knowing, but something in us knows. There is a kind of magic in this, as one person in group expressed it. Given the theme tonite: What are your needs? A verbal, kind of automatic response may not have been as satisfying, or full, or rich as one found in the process of art
exploration.