AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Drawing • Painting • Sculpting • Scrap Book Making • Wall Murals • Pavement Chalk Drawing • Mosaic • Diorama • 3D Installations • Digital Photography • Digital Image Creation • Collage Art • Pattern Design

Children, Adolescents & Young Adults Session Conducting
Group & Individual Art Project Leading

Art Show Preparation & Exhibit Coordination
Community-based Project Organization & Directing

Trained Mnemonic Memory Techniques Facilitator
Independent & Team Work Activity Launching

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ART PLUS ACADEMY, Cedar Park, Austin TX (2013-2014)

Visual Arts Instructor

AC ART ATELIER, Brooklyn, New York, NY (2010-2013)

Visual Arts Freelancer & Creative Life Coach

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT MONTEFIORE, Bronx, New York (2009-2010)

Art Therapy

CROSS CULTURAL SOLUTIONS, Cape Town, South Africa (August 2009)

Art Therapy / Community Volunteer

CHILDREN'S VILLAGE, Dobbs Ferry, New York (2008-2009)

Art Therapy

EDUCATION

M.A. in Art Therapy (2010)

NYU, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York
Thesis: "Locus of Control, Learned Optimism and an Examination of the Restorative Potential of Art Making in Medical Art Therapy with an Adolescent Female Patient with Cancer Diagnosis.”

B.A. in Education (2002)

Main field: Philology, Specialty: Teaching, Educational College for Teachers of Foreign Languages
University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
Thesis: "The Foreign Language Teaching as the Subject for the Use of Mnemonic Memory Techniques.”

A.F.A. in Fashion Styling of Apparel and Confection (1998)

Major: Fashion Design
Academy of Visual Arts, College of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland
Thesis: "Inspiration from Nature and Wildlife - One of Four Elements - Water"

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Online Coaching Webinars – “Creativity Happens: Art of Happy Life” (2013-2014)                                                      

• Finalist of Art Mix Design Contest by Pioneer DJ USA, CA (2013)                                                                   

• NYNU Elite Networking Group, International Women’s Day Guest Speaker – “Creativity”, NY (2013)

• Article in Polish Daily News: “Nowy Dziennik” Friday March 1^st, 2013, NY (2013)                                                 

• Radio Interview - "Art Therapy and Creativity in Life " / Radio Rampa, NY (2013)                                            

• Solo Art Exhibition - "Reminiscence", New York, NY (2012)                                                                                             

• Photography Art Show - "Winter", Brooklyn, NY (2011)                                                                                                    

• Collaborative Art Exhibition of Graduate Art Therapy Students, The Commons & Rosenberg Gallery at NYU, NY (2010)

• Presented artwork of two individual clients at ARTWORKS art exhibit at NYU, NY (2010)                         

• Press Release - “At a Glance” NYU Steinhardt, Commencement Issue, NY (2010)                                      

• Annual Children's Village Art Exhibition / Art Show Co-Coordinator, NY (2009)                                                 

AFFILIATIONS

• Member of American Art Therapy Association
• Member of The Art Students League of New York
• Member of ETSY.COM – Global networking for artists and buyers
• Member of NEW YORK NEW YOU – Elite Networking Group