Season 4. Ep.7 Catherine Hyland Moon- Art Therapist (USA)

Catherine Hyland Moon (she/her/hers) is Professor Emerit, Department of Art Therapy and

Counseling, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Author of Studio Art Therapy: Cultivating the

Artist Identity in the Art Therapist and contributing editor of Materials and Media in Art

Therapy: Critical Understandings of Diverse Artistic Vocabularies, she has worked in varied

settings, including a psychiatric hospital, home-based behavioral healthcare, and a studio-based

private practice. Her current art therapy work is focused on co-leading cross-cultural

therapeutic arts training programs in East Africa through Global Alliance for Africa and co-

facilitating a free community art studio in the U.S. aimed at cultivating collective care across

social differences. Her professional publications and presentations in art therapy have focused

on the unique contributions of an art-based perspective in therapeutic practice, community-

based art studios as public healthcare, the ethics of art therapy in international collaboration

and exchange, and intersectional, socially just approaches to care within art therapy praxis and

organizational structures. Her current artmaking centers around assembling and repurposing

strategies, whether through text-based works, collage, painted assemblages, found object

constructions, or fiber-based creations.