The graduate program in art therapy trains highly skilled therapists whose professional practice is grounded in a broad understanding of current clinical art therapy, counseling, and trauma theories. Students are taught the application of effective research and evaluation methodologies, clinical skills, and studio expertise, within a diverse, integrative, and culturallyresponsive format. The pr...

We use SME, a domain-general model of analogy, to solve a set of problems from the Raven’s Progressive Matrices. SME is used in a two-stage mapping process which we have previously shown to be effective for solving geometric analogy problems. Each problem is drawn in PowerPoint and input into sKEA, our sketch understanding system. sKEA automatically computes qualitative representations of the d...

Recently, statistical techniques have been used to assist art historians in the analysis of works of art. We present a novel technique for the quantification of artistic style that utilizes a sparse coding model. Originally developed in vision research, sparse coding models can be trained to represent any image space by maximizing the kurtosis of a representation of an arbitrarily selected imag...

We performed a case study of the design of a house to investigate the underlying reference systems of design transformation. In the collection of sketches we examined we found that the type of drawing could often be identified by a combination of drawing style, projection type, and key elements found in the drawing. Our study presents the collection of design drawings made by the architect, and...

Evaluation of Art Curriculum in Elementary Schools through Educational Connoisseurship and Criticism A. Noori, Ph.D. S. Faarsi This study was conducted to evaluate the art curriculum in elementary schools through educational connoisseurship and criticism. Two elementary schools in Malaayer were selected, one with male and the other with female students, and their physical atmo...