The Art and Art Therapy of Papermaking: Material, Methods, and Applications includes 20 contributing authors coming from diverse backgrounds and experiences throughout the U.S. This includes service in the military, practicing studio artists and art facilitators, educators in academia, clinicians, researchers, and activists.
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Courtney Bowles
Courtney is an artist, educator, and community organizer. Her projects combine organizing strategies and urgently needed services, with collaborative, poetic, and performative actions that connect diverse and often antagonistic actors. She currently co-directs the People’s Paper Co-op and the Reentry Think Tank in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Amy Bucciarelli, MS, ATR-BC, LMHC, NCC
Amy is a Board Certified Art Therapist and Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida. She owns Coastal Blossom Counseling & Art Therapy, specializing in medical art therapy, trauma, and loss. Amy taught graduate-level art therapy and arts in medicine for over a decade. She began papermaking in 2012 thanks to Peace Paper Project.
Genevieve S. Camp, MA, LMHC, ATR-BC, CEDS
Genevieve is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist in private practice in Florida, United States. With specialized training in Internal Family Systems (IFS) and EMDR therapies, her work focuses on treating the intersection of developmental/relational trauma and eating disorders.
Jennifer L. Davis
Jennifer holds a Master’s degree in education and, at the time of publication, is working on a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. She provides therapy to individuals, couples, and families. In addition, she conducts papermaking workshops and other therapeutic art classes for groups and communities in Kansas, United States.
Raoul Deal, MVA, BFA
Raoul received his MVA from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in painting and is the founding Coordinator of the Community Arts BA Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. A Senior Lecturer in the Peck School of the Arts, Raoul has served as Artist-in-Residence for UWM’s Cultures and Communities Program since 2002.
Janice M. Havlena, BFA, MA, ATR-BC-Retired
Janice received her MA in art therapy from the University of New Mexico and her BFA from Wayne State University, Detroit. Her work has included clinical art therapy, academic teaching, research in epilepsy, art therapy, and community art. Janice has collaborated with Peace Paper Project since 2012.
Meadow Jones, Ph.D.
Meadow completed her MLIS and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation Archiving the Trauma Diaspora concerned the use of art practices in the redress of trauma. She facilitates trauma-responsive writing workshops and training. She is currently a student at the Maitreya Buddhist Seminary.
Steven Kostell, MFA
Steven is a visual artist and designer whose work is grounded in material-based production, incorporating waste streams and natural materials through hand papermaking. He serves as Assistant Professor at The University of Vermont where he leads the UVM Biofiber Lab, focusing on circular design systems through regenerative material exploration.
Tom Lascell
Tom is a paper and book artist living in northern New York. He has worked with both the Combat Paper and Peace Paper Projects. His series of pulp paper masks have traveled with the Combat Paper Project and has been exhibited in the United Kingdom and several venues within the United States.
Nathan Lewis
Nathan is an artist, writer, activist, and arborist living near Ithaca, New York, and a U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq. Nathan’s work has been shown across the country and in many rare book collections. He has facilitated veteran workshops with Combat Paper Project, Frontline Arts, Community Building Art Works, and Peace Paper Project.
Annie McFarland, Ph.D., ATR-BC
Annie is an art therapist, educator, and artist working as an Assistant Professor of Art Therapy at West Virginia University. Her current research focuses include trauma recovery, art-making for health and wellness, and recycled papermaking. She also has clinical experience in inpatient psychiatric centers, palliative and hospice care, and with military populations.
Meredith Lin McMackin, MFA, MS, Ph.D., LMHC, ATR
Meredith received an MFA in Studio Art, MS in Art Therapy, and Ph.D. in Art Education from Florida State University where she researched the therapeutic process of hand papermaking with student veterans. Meredith works as an Art Therapist and Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Vancouver, Washington, United States.
Rachel Mims, MS, ATR-BC, LPC-AT
Rachel is a Board Certified Art Therapist and U.S. Army veteran. She has a passion for helping women, veterans, and queer folks recover from trauma. Rachel has worked in a variety of settings including community mental health, nonprofits, higher education, private practice, and telehealth.
Amy Koski Richard, MFA
Amy received her MFA in Book Arts from the University of Iowa, Center for the Book, and BFA in Studio Art from Lamar University, United States. A visual artist and writer, her papermaking practice serves as a conduit to the natural environment as well as spiritual and healing connections to be shared with others.
John Risseeuw, MFA
John received his MFA in Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. An Emeritus Professor at Arizona State University (ASU), he taught printmaking, bookmaking, and papermaking for over 40 years and established ASU’s book arts press Pyracantha Press. His press, Cabbagehead Press was founded in 1972 and is located in Tempe, Arizona, United States.
Erin Mooney-Simkus, LCPC, ATR-BC
Erin is a Board Certified Art Therapist and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor whose clinical work includes working with adults managing anxiety, trauma, and loss and a specialty in LGBTQA support. Erin is the founder of Create Balance Counseling, an art therapy practice in Illinois.
Mark Strandquist
Mark is Co-Director of People’s Paper Co-op and Performing Statistics and has spent years using art to help amplify, celebrate, and power social justice movements. Blending public art, cultural organizing, and interactive technology, his work operates at a monumental scale reaching hundreds of thousands of viewers without compromising a deeply collaborative practice.
Yaslin M. Torres-Peña
Yaslin serves as Student Engagement Liason for Washington State University’s Undocumented Initiatives program in Pullman, Washington, United States.
Denise R. Wolf, ATCS, LPC, LPAT
Denise is an artist and art therapist. She is an Associate Clinical Professor at Drexel University and the owner and practitioner/therapist of Mangata Services. Denise believes that a neurological understanding of trauma eliminates judgment and creates opportunities for community action care through therapeutic arts processes.
Eli Wright
Eli enlisted as a U.S. Army medic after September 11th, 2001. Upon returning home from Iraq in 2004, he began organizing with other veterans to speak out about their military experiences through activism and the arts. Since 2007, Eli has practiced the craft of making handmade paper from military uniforms with veterans across the country.
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