Christine DeMarco studied expressive therapies with a specialization in art therapy. Christine has been working in the field of art therapy for eleven years, and previously practiced as a social worker. Christine brings these two fields together, bringing the benefits of art therapy to various systems of care. Her experience in therapy has included adults with mental illness, homeless adults, elders with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, people with developmental disabilities, and children and families. She specializes in working with preschool age children and their families, using art as a mode of healing early childhood and relationship issues.
Michael Franklin
BA, University of South Florida
MA, George Washington University
ATR-BC
Michael Franklin is the director of the Art Therapy program. Since 1982 he has both practiced and taught art therapy in various academic and clinical settings. He has lectured nationally and internationally, offering a wide range of research contributions to the field. As an artist, he actively pursues his work and continues to research the relationship between art therapy, yoga philosophy and meditation. He is currently a doctoral candidate with Lesley University.
Kendra Schpok BFA, MA, Tyler School of Art/Temple University
MA, Naropa University
Kendra Schpok has been an artist for more than twenty years, has owned a stained glass business and has worked in a pediatric ward bringing art to children suffering from cancer. She was the research assistant for the Community Art Studio at Naropa during the project’s first year and is the current studio manager overseeing administration, grant development and program development for a teen entrepreneurial project. She also works as an art therapist at a local psychiatric hospital on the adolescent and adult inpatient units.
Sue Wallingford has utilized art for healing in the mental health field for more than sixteen years. Her experience includes work in various psychiatric facilities, a prison, a home for abused children, a residential home for the developmentally disabled, Hospice and with the elderly. Currently Sue is in private practice offering counseling and art therapy services in the Boulder area, www.suewallingford.com. Her interests include life transitions and spiritual discernment and growth. Sue continues to be dedicated to the art making process and has exhibited her work throughout the Boulder-Denver area.
Visiting Art Therapists and Faculty
Josie Abbenante, MA, ATR - BC, LPAT
Pat. B. Allen, PhD, ATR
Susan Bello, PhD, ATR
Mimi Farrelly-Hansen, MA, ATR-BC, LPC
David Henley, PhD, ATR
Janis Timm-Bottos, ATR-BC
Barbara Fish, MA, ATR-BC, LPC
Gussie Klorer, PhD, ATR-BC
Cathy Malchiodi, MA, ATR, LPAT, LPC
Shaun McNiff, PhD, ATR
Bruce Moon, PhD, ATR
Laurie Ellen Neustadt, MS, ATR-BC
Shirley Riley, MA, MFCT, ATR
Carol Thayer Cox, ATR, LPAT
Katherine Williams PhD, ATR-BC
Linney Wix, MA, ATR
