Upcoming Events
Summer 2026
Join us for an upcoming virtual Licensure Meeting to stay informed on the latest updates in art therapy licensure and learn how you can support advocacy efforts in Pennsylvania. These meetings offer a space to ask questions, share ideas, and take action to advance the profession together.
🗓️ Tuesday, July 14, 2026 at 9:30am
🗓️ Monday, August 17, 2026 at 10am
🗓️ Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 9:30am
📍 Location: Anywhere, it’s virtual!
🗓️ Tuesday, July 14, 2026 at 9:30am
🗓️ Monday, August 17, 2026 at 10am
🗓️ Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 9:30am
📍 Location: Anywhere, it’s virtual!
Take a creative break and connect with fellow art therapists and students from across Pennsylvania at our virtual open studio. This relaxed, supportive space is open to all PA art therapists and art therapy students to explore artmaking, unwind, and spark inspiration together. We look forward to creating in community with you
🗓️ Wednesday, July 15, 2026 at 12pm
🗓️ Tuesday, August 4, 2026 at 7:30pm
📍 Location: Anywhere, it's virtual!
🗓️ Wednesday, July 15, 2026 at 12pm
🗓️ Tuesday, August 4, 2026 at 7:30pm
📍 Location: Anywhere, it's virtual!
CEU Events & PAATA Milestones
June 2026
Earn 3 CE hours with Mariya Keselman-Mekler presenting on a Person-Centered Trauma-Informed (PCTI) framework. This workshop introduces a Person-Centered Trauma-Informed (PCTI) framework designed for creative arts therapists and counselors. Through case examples and group-based art therapy and counseling practices, participants will explore approaches that support empowered storytelling for trauma survivors. Registration required!
🗓️ Saturday, June 13, 2026
🕖 9:30AM-12:30PM
💻 Location: Virtual
🗓️ Saturday, June 13, 2026
🕖 9:30AM-12:30PM
💻 Location: Virtual
May 2026
You’re invited! Join PAATA in Harrisburg on Tuesday March 24th and Wednesday May 6th!
Email [email protected] with any questions!
Email [email protected] with any questions!
April 2026
Calling all art therapy students, new professionals, and professionals wanting to learn more about other avenues in our field! Join us for this free virtual event for all.
🗓️ Monday, April 6, 2026
🕖 7:00PM
💻 Location: Virtual
🗓️ Monday, April 6, 2026
🕖 7:00PM
💻 Location: Virtual
Earn 3CE hours as Sheila Lorenzo de la Peña, PhD, ATR-BC, ATCS presents on the destruction and reconstruction of altered books for wellness! Part junk journal, definitely a mixed media exploration, an altered book uses simple skills to transform and give new meaning to old texts. Whether you have some experience or are just media curious, Taking-Up-Space explores themes of intentional destruction and reconstruction for wellbeing through sustained creative practice.
🗓️ Saturday, April 18, 2026
🕖 9:30AM-12:30PM
💻 Location: Virtual
🗓️ Saturday, April 18, 2026
🕖 9:30AM-12:30PM
💻 Location: Virtual
February 2026
Join Wednesdae Reim Ifrach, REAT, ATR-BC, ATCS, LPC, NCC, CLAT, RMT for an experiential introduction to Social Action Art Therapy that centers body-image, gender-affirming embodiment, and social messaging. In this hands-on workshop, participants will decorate a wooden mini-mannequin while engaging research, harm-reduction, and expressive art-making.
🗓️ Sunday, February 21, 2026
🕖 9:30AM-12:30PM
💻 Location: Virtual
January 2026
Join us in celebrating Grace Childers, recipient of PAATA’s Graduate Research Award, and her work "Art in the Waiting Room: Community Care and Narrative Healing in Oncology Spaces." Grace’s work integrates theory, research, and practice through innovative community arts engagement involving a traveling loom placed in an oncology waiting room, offering patients a participatory and therapeutic creative outlet.
🗓️ Sunday, January 29, 2026
🕖 7:00 PM
💻 Location: Virtual
🗓️ Sunday, January 29, 2026
🕖 7:00 PM
💻 Location: Virtual
Join us for PAATA's Ron Hays Award Winner Continuing Education Presentation featuring Abigail Oxford’s work, “Beauty in the Imperfections: Transforming Found Treasures into Something New and Meaningful.
🗓️ Sunday, January 31, 2026
🕖 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
💻 Location: Virtual
🗓️ Sunday, January 31, 2026
🕖 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
💻 Location: Virtual
December 2025
📣 PAATA All-Member Meeting!
Join us for our annual All-Member Meeting. This is an opportunity to hear directly from Board members about important updates, upcoming initiatives, and ways to get involved. Keep an eye on your email for the Zoom link.
🗓️ Sunday, December 7, 2025
🕖 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
💻 Location: Virtual
Join us for our annual All-Member Meeting. This is an opportunity to hear directly from Board members about important updates, upcoming initiatives, and ways to get involved. Keep an eye on your email for the Zoom link.
🗓️ Sunday, December 7, 2025
🕖 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
💻 Location: Virtual
Through the Currents of Grief: Art Therapy and Meaning Reconstruction After Loss
📅 Sunday, December 7, 2025 | 🕤 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
📍 Live Virtual Event | 🧠 3 CEUs Available
Join Sarah Vollmann, DSW, MPS, ATR-BC, LICSW for a 3-hour professional development experience that explores how art therapy can support meaning-making, continuing bonds, and identity after loss through theory, case examples, and experiential art-making.
📅 Sunday, December 7, 2025 | 🕤 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
📍 Live Virtual Event | 🧠 3 CEUs Available
Join Sarah Vollmann, DSW, MPS, ATR-BC, LICSW for a 3-hour professional development experience that explores how art therapy can support meaning-making, continuing bonds, and identity after loss through theory, case examples, and experiential art-making.
October 2025
Join PAATA representative and advocates in Harrisburg on October 29th, 2025 for Hill Day - a day dedicated to advancing art therapy awareness and legislative efforts across the state.
Our team will meet with lawmakers to share the impact of art therapy, highlight the importance of professional licensure, and advocate for greater access to mental health services.
Our team will meet with lawmakers to share the impact of art therapy, highlight the importance of professional licensure, and advocate for greater access to mental health services.
July 2025
🚨 Meet Our Lobbyists! 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce a special virtual event you won’t want to miss! Come learn about the advocates working behind the scenes to advance art therapy legislation in Pennsylvania! This is your chance to get informed, inspired, and involved. Mark your calendars and spread the word!
🗓 Thursday, July 17, 2025 | 7:00 PM
💻 Meet Our Lobbyists from Duane Morris Government Strategies
✅ FREE and open to everyone - not just members!
📬 Have questions before the event? Email us at [email protected]
We’re thrilled to announce a special virtual event you won’t want to miss! Come learn about the advocates working behind the scenes to advance art therapy legislation in Pennsylvania! This is your chance to get informed, inspired, and involved. Mark your calendars and spread the word!
🗓 Thursday, July 17, 2025 | 7:00 PM
💻 Meet Our Lobbyists from Duane Morris Government Strategies
✅ FREE and open to everyone - not just members!
📬 Have questions before the event? Email us at [email protected]
June 2025
SoulCollage® for the Soul: A Gateway Towards Equilibrium When Unpredictability Reigns
📅 Saturday, June 7, 2025 | 🕤 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
📍 Live Virtual Event | 🧠 3 CEUs Available
Join Mindy Jacobson-Levy, LPAT (NJ), LPC (PA/NJ), ATR-BC, MCAT, PAATA HLM, for a 3-hour professional development experience that explores the transformative process of SoulCollage®.
In a world marked by unpredictability, SoulCollage® offers a powerful method to access inner wisdom through imagery, intuition, and reflective writing. This dynamic art-based approach provides a safe space to explore disequilibrium and discover insights from our internal guides.
📅 Saturday, June 7, 2025 | 🕤 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
📍 Live Virtual Event | 🧠 3 CEUs Available
Join Mindy Jacobson-Levy, LPAT (NJ), LPC (PA/NJ), ATR-BC, MCAT, PAATA HLM, for a 3-hour professional development experience that explores the transformative process of SoulCollage®.
In a world marked by unpredictability, SoulCollage® offers a powerful method to access inner wisdom through imagery, intuition, and reflective writing. This dynamic art-based approach provides a safe space to explore disequilibrium and discover insights from our internal guides.
April 2025
Are you curious about a career in art therapy? Join us for Join PAATA for a virtual Art Therapy Career Night on Thursday, April 24 at 7 PM.
This free, no-registration-required event is your chance to hear directly from experienced art therapists working in a variety of settings. Get inspired by real-world insights, ask questions, and explore how creativity can become a meaningful career path.
A Zoom link will be shared via email and at paarttherapy.org. Mark your calendar and join the conversation!
This free, no-registration-required event is your chance to hear directly from experienced art therapists working in a variety of settings. Get inspired by real-world insights, ask questions, and explore how creativity can become a meaningful career path.
A Zoom link will be shared via email and at paarttherapy.org. Mark your calendar and join the conversation!
December 2024
Explore the intersection of Positive Psychology and the Creative Arts Therapies. Discover strategies for using creative endeavors to increase well-being, meaning, and engagement in life. Specific therapeutic interventions will be taught using research-based principles of Positive Psychology. This presentation will be an enriching learning experience!
September 2024
Join us on World Dementia Day for a film screening of "Keys Bags Names Words", a documentary film about hope in aging and dementia. We will also host a CE event in conjunction with the screening: Navigating the Unique Challenges of the Aging: Honoring the Individual with Dementia and Memory Loss. Our CE event will be presented by Sivan Perdue, MS, ATR-BC, LCPAT, LPAT.
April 2024
Join us for our Career Night coming up on April 17th, 2024! Hear from panelists working with various populations in the field. Bring questions and prepare to learn about a few of the many avenues art therapists can pursue.
February 2024
Get creative or try something new while earning 3 CEUs during our upcoming virtual event. February 24th at 9:30 am, presented by Sheila Lorenzo de la Peña, PhD, ATR-BC, ATCS and Kate Gibson, MA, ATR-BC, LPC.
December 2023
Learn and expand your working knowledge of effective digital art therapy interventions through a supervisory lens with students, supervisees, staff, and self-introspection.
November 2023
Come visit PAATA at our table in the State Capitol in Harrisburg! We are spreading the word about Art Therapy and the importance of licensure.
JUNE 2023
Join us on June 17 and earn 2 CE credits (NBCC)! This workshop will help clinicians gain insight into how international capacity building efforts can be facilitated with a clinically and ethically sound, and culturally sensitive manner.
APRIL 2023
Dr. Girija Kaimal will be presenting her research and discussing her book, The Expressive Instinct.
If you have any questions or concerns related to PAATA CEU events, please email [email protected].