Admissions Requirements
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
'B' average during undergraduate study or demonstrated potential for graduate work
12 credits of Psychology including the following:
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General Psychology
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Developmental Psychology/Lifespan or Human Development
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Abnormal Psychology
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Any 3-credit Undergraduate Psychology Elective
18 credits of studio art, including, but is not limited to: 2D, 3D, ceramics, painting, drawing, sculpture, figure drawing, digital design/computer graphics.
Portfolio (at least 20 pieces of work including a variety of media)
Official transcripts from all previously attended institutions"
Facilities & Technology
Every art student at Marywood has access to superb facilities in our two art buildings, from computer labs and darkrooms to drawing, painting, printmaking, metal, wood, and sculpture studios and weaving looms. Facilities are available to art students 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Marywood is also home to four galleries on campus featuring regional and national artists, faculty, and students.
Insalaco Center for Studio Arts
The Michael and Dolores Insalaco Center for Studio Arts is home to the Art Department. The Insalaco Center also houses the Kresge, Mahady and Suraci Galleries and features drawing and painting studios showcasing naturally-lit rooms with beautiful views of the campus. There are studios and equipment for woodworking, jewelry-making, ceramics, sculpture, photography, printmaking, graphic design, illustration, and art therapy, and private and semi-private workspaces for upper-level BFA, MA, and MFA students. Private and semi-private work spaces are available to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. Art students can access the building 24 hours a day.
Built and dedicated in 2001, the facility was made possible through the generous support of Michael Insalaco, Trustee Emeritus and former Board Chair, and his wife, Dolores.
Sandtray Room
Sandtray and Sandplay are forms of therapy that allow clients to create their own representations of their inner world or experiences using miniature figures and sand. These creations can become metaphors of the client’s life and serve as a means for the client to reflect on conflicts, obstacles, and self-acceptance. Sandtray & Sandplay therapy are beneficial for a range of ages and populations. As in art therapy, work within the sandtray can be carried out non-verbally and contains symbolism of the client’s inner world (Zhou, 2009). The sandtray room, located in the Insalaco Center for Studio Arts, Room 205 at Marywood University, enables students to directly experience and learn about the process of incorporating sand and miniatures into therapy.
Studio Arts Classrooms
The Insalaco Center for Studio Arts features drawing and painting studios showcasing naturally lit rooms with beautiful views of the campus. There are studios and equipment for woodworking, jewelry-making, ceramics, sculpture, photography, printmaking, multipurpose classrooms for graphic design and illustration, and private and semi-private studios for upper level BFA, MA, and MFA students.
The Clay Studio consists of a large common workroom with electric- and kick- wheels, extruders, slab roller, and worktables. Adjoining the workroom is a kiln and glazing room with four electric kilns and two gas kilns. Ceramics majors and minors also have access to personal workspaces that connect to the main workroom and kiln room.
Students in illustration, drawing, painting, and foundations have access to two adjacent studios, each about 800 square feet of uninterrupted space with 10 ft. ceilings. One studio has floor-to-ceiling windows extending 80 ft. along two walls. The other has floor-to-ceiling windows extending 40 ft. along one wall. Both studios are fully equipped with easels and taborets, as well as track lighting, student lockers, storage racks, and ventilation systems.
In addition, students have use of multipurpose classrooms equipped with negative, slide and flatbed scanners, large-format color inkjet printers, color plotters, and digital access to Adobe Creative Cloud software.
The large and airy third floor art studio offers dedicated space for novice through advanced painting students. The room has movable partitions for configuring semiprivate work areas according to class size. Six private art studios 12x15 overlook a stand of mature trees and provide plenty of natural light for each student pursuing a undergraduate degrees in studio art painting.
Graphic design, printmaking, and photography students have access to a group black and white darkrooms, a private darkroom for making large projection prints, and an alternative processes room devoted to working with historic printmaking methods such as palladium, cyanotype and gum bichromate. The department has seven 4x5 view cameras which are available for student use, along with a variety of 35mm and 2-1⁄4 cameras. The spacious lighting studio is equipped with versatile strobe systems, backdrops, and a prop zone. Resources include an adjacent multipurpose classroom equipped with negative, slide, and flatbed scanners, large-format color inkjet printers, color plotters and digital access to Adobe Creative Cloud software.
The second floor printmaking studio provides facilities for working in all the major processes. Currently there are there intaglio/relief presses, a litho press with stones and grinding sink, a letterpress proof press and assorted type, camera room, screen stretching unit and assorted frames, screen washout unit, NU ARC exposure units, and various paper filing and materials cabinets. Adjoining the main studio is a separate letterpress studio and a fully equipped papermaking facility including a Hollander paper beater.
The first floor 3D/sculpture area consists of mold-making facilities for casting metal, resins, plaster, and glass. Fabrication equipment allows students to cut, forge, weld, and cold-finish metal. The hot shop is outfitted with kilns for glass cutting. slumping, and fusing in addition to the foundry for bronze and aluminum. The jewelry studio bays provide opportunities for students to work with "light" metals. The wood studio, shared with Architecture, is designed and equipped for all aspects of woodwork as applied to furniture making and sculpture, including carving, lamination, turning, and finishing.
Mahady Art Gallery
The Robert J. and Elizabeth FitzMartin Mahady Gallery, known more frequently as the Mahady Gallery, is located on the first floor of the Insalaco Center for Studio Arts, providing an open and elegant setting for the display of contemporary artwork. Throughout the year, the gallery offers a variety of group and solo shows by visiting artists, juried regional competitions, faculty exhibits, student shows, and curated national exhibitions. Every art major has an exhibit in the Mahady Gallery before graduation.
Formerly known as the Contemporary Gallery, the venue underwent renovations in 2001. Elizabeth Mahady, a generous benefactor, underwrote the remodeling of the space, which was renamed to honor her and her late husband. In 2025, the gallery was relocated to the lobby of the Insalaco Center for Studio Arts. The refurbished Mahady Gallery has continued to showcase works of talented students, faculty, and visiting artists, providing a source of artistic enrichment for all the people of the region.
Maslow Study Gallery
The Maslow Study Gallery is a learning laboratory, providing fieldwork experiences, internships, and opportunities in curatorial and exhibition studies to Marywood students. Works in The Maslow Collection are available for professional research and study, and many are loaned to regional and national exhibitions.
The Maslow Collection is the largest and most comprehensive collection of Contemporary art in Northeastern Pennsylvania, with over 700 works by more than 150 artists. Collected by Marilyn and Richard Maslow and originally housed at InterMetro Industries, it is now on long-term loan to Marywood University.
The largest part of the Collection is devoted to paintings by newly established or emerging artists working or exhibiting in New York during the late 1970s through the early 1990s, such as David Reed, Terry Winters, Nicholas Africano, Robert Cumming, James Biederman, Jack Goldstein, Melissa Meyer, Gary Lang, Anthony Sorce, Edward Henderson, and Katherine Porter, among many others.
The Collection also includes major prints and works on paper by Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, Robert Longo, Chuck Close, Sherrie Levine, Edward Ruscha, Jane Hammond, Peter Halley, Sol LeWitt, and Andy Warhol, among others; and important photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Barbara Kasten, Lee Friedlander, Sandy Skoglund, and Mark Cohen.
The Maslow Collection has loaned works to major exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC; The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY; and the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA; among others.
The Collection is, at its core, a learning laboratory that provides exhibitions, dialogue, fieldwork experience, internships, and other opportunities in curatorial studies. Access begins with all Marywood Art Department students, who interact directly with the Collection as an enhancement of their course content (exhibitions are frequently co-curated by faculty members), and extends to Arts Administration students in a more in-depth way, as well as the larger community as a major resource through loans and events.
Suraci Art Gallery
The Suraci Gallery, located on the first floor of the Insalaco Center for Shields Arts, houses a rotating selection of Marywood's permanent collection of fine and decorative art. Exhibitions in the Suraci Gallery also showcase regional and national artists; support art faculty work and scholarship; provide degree research and documentation opportunities for current and alumni art students; and foster community outreach projects and interests.
The gallery consists of three collections. The gallery's Asian Collection consists of ceramics, furniture, netsukes, inro, ivories, and prints. Bronze and marble sculpture, paintings, ceramics, glass, and French ivories comprise the 19th Century Collection. Religious icons, furniture, and 20th century works round out the Suraci Collection.
Kresge Gallery
Located in the lobby of the Insalaco Center for Studio Arts, the Kresge Gallery is a versatile exhibition, critique, and lecture space. An alternative venue to the formal art galleries, the Kresge Gallery provides a working and experimental exhibition site for art students and faculty to showcase a variety of work throughout each semester.
Scholarships
Morris K. Udall Scholarship
The Udall Foundation seeks future leaders across a wide spectrum of environmental fields, including policy, engineering, science, education, urban planning and renewal, business, health, justice, and economics. The Foundation also seeks future Native American and Alaska Native leaders in public and community health care, tribal government, and public policy affecting Native American communities, including land and resource management, economic development, and education.
Faculty
Our faculty comprises fully credentialed art therapists with expertise in various areas of practice.
Program Director
Jackalynn Wilson, MA, ATR-BC, ATCS, PMH-C, LPC
Stephen Garrison
Associate Professor | Director of the School of Visual & Performing Arts
Patrick L McLane
MFA Director
Aaron B Best
Lecturer
Ky C Betts
Lecturer
Vincent A Bonavoglia
Lecturer
Mark Chuck
Ceramics Technician (9 Mnth)
Stephen J Colley
3D Studio Technician (9 Mnth)
Aimee L Dilger
Lecturer
Rachel M Dolk
Lecturer
Jenna Rose Edmonds
Lecturer
Lindsay Barrett George
Lecturer
Paul J Georgetti
Lecturer
Romina C Godoy
Graduate Assistant | Lecturer
Alicia R Grunder-Laughlin
Lecturer | Art Therapy Practicum/Internship Coordinator
Melanie W Hall
Lecturer | Lecturer
Megan Halsey
Lecturer | Lecturer
Justin Todd Hayden
Lecturer
Susan M Jenkins
Associate Professor
John Kascht
Non-Credit Professional | Lecturer | Lecturer
Courtney Lynn McCreary
Administrative Assistant | Administrative Assistant
Peter Nardone
Lecturer
Cathy J Noto
Lecturer
Kevin O'Neill
Lecturer | Lecturer
Abigail B Oxford
Instructor of Practice
Collier B Parker
Professor
Margaret A Reddan
Lecturer
David Henry Schulte
Lecturer
Irene Scotti Lantz
Lecturer
Lori R Sebastiani
Lecturer
Amanda Nicole Stanek
Lecturer
Alise Tifentale
Lecturer
Heidi Marie Van Leuven
Lecturer
Georisell Vazquez
Lecturer
Mark Freeman Webber
Lecturer | Lecturer
Judith Wilde
Lecturer | Lecturer
Jackalynn Lee Wilson
Program Director for Art Therapy | Instructor of Art Therapy
Stephanie L Wise
Professor Emeritus | Lecturer | Liaison for Art Therapy
Courses & Curriculum (60 Total Credits)
The Marywood University Graduate Art Therapy program follows the guidelines of the American Art Therapy Association (AATA).
Furthermore, the Marywood University Graduate Art Therapy Program is accredited by the Commission on the Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) and Accreditation Council for Art Therapy Education (ACATE).
The graduate curriculum is a 60-credit degree program consisting of courses in Art Therapy, Psychology, studio arts, and practicum/internship.
Requirements of the program include:
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39 credits in Art Therapy
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6 credits in Psychology and/or Counseling
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6 credits in studio arts
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9 credits in elective coursework
Required Art Therapy Courses (39 credits)
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AT 520 |
History & Theory of Art Therapy |
3 |
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AT 522 |
Arts-Based Research Methods |
3 |
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AT 529 |
Ethical Considerations in Art Therapy |
3 |
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AT 532 |
Media & Materials: The Art of Art Therapy |
3 |
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AT 534 |
Cultural Humility in Art Therapy |
3 |
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AT 537 |
Group Dynamics in Art Therapy |
3 |
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AT 540 |
Practicum I |
3 |
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AT 541 |
Practicum II |
3 |
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AT 542 |
Practicum III |
3 |
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AT 543 |
Practicum IV |
3 |
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AT 545 |
Developmental Dynamics in Art Therapy |
3 |
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AT 595A |
Professional Thesis |
1 |
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AT 601A |
ST: Assessment & Appraisal Art Therapy |
3 |
Required Art Studio Courses (6 credits)
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Graduate Level Studio Arts Courses |
3 |
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Graduate Level Studio Arts Courses |
3 |
Required Psychology or Counseling Courses (6 credits)
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PSYC 531 |
Psychopathology |
3 |
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PSYC-COUN |
PSYC-COUN Graduate Level Elective |
3 |
Elective Art Therapy Courses (9 credits)
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AT 521 |
Expressive Arts Workshop |
3 |
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AT 523 |
Child Case Studies in Art Therapy |
3 |
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AT 527 |
Trauma and Resiliency in Art Therapy |
3 |
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AT 530 |
Art in Special Education |
3 |
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AT 531 |
Introduction to Family Art Therapy |
3 |
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AT 536 |
Studio in Art Therapy |
3 |
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AT 535 |
Art Therapy with Adolescents |
3 |
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AT 560 |
Addiction Treatment in Art TherapyýOf Addictions |
3 |
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AT 561 |
Introduction to Sandtray Therapy |
3 |
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AT 598D |
ST: Museum Based Art Therapy |
3 |
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PSYC 532 |
Child Psychopathology |
3 |
A required course may be waived, and/or substituted, with a comparable graduate-level Art Therapy, Counseling, or Psychology course, with permission from the Directory of Art Therapy.
Student Resources
Handbook
Art Therapy Graduate Student Handbook
Guides
Art Therapy Graduate Student & Supervisors Practicum Guidelines
Art Therapy Graduate Student Personal Contribution/Research Thesis Student Guidelines
Online Art Supplies
