Dr. Gaelynn Wolf Bordonaro
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| Dr. Gaelynn P. Wolf Bordonaro, ATR-BC is the Director of the Emporia State University Art Therapy Program and an Assistant Professor the Department of Psychology, Art Therapy, Rehabilitation, and Mental Health Counseling (PARM). Prior to joining the faculty at ESU, Gaelynn taught art therapy coursework at Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida), the University of Louisville (Louisville, Kentucky), and La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia). She has presented throughout the United States, England, Jamaica, India, the Islands of the Bahamas, Germany, South Africa, Thailand, and Australia on art therapy intervention in response to natural disasters, pediatric medical art therapy, using photography in therapeutic and special education settings, art therapy with geriatric populations, and art therapy with children with special needs. In 1999, she was a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar in Melbourne, Australia. Gaelynn maintains a private art therapy and consulting practice; her primary areas of interest are international art therapy, pediatric medical art therapy, photography in art therapy settings, and art therapy in schools. As an artist, Gaelynn particularly enjoys photography, found object sculpture, and reinventing or reconstructing surfaces using paint and mixed media. Gaelynn serves on the Board of Directors of the American Art Therapy Association (AATA), and also serves on the Advisory Board of the Asia Pacific Art Therapy Center (APATC). She is engaged in projects in India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Grabouw, South Africa through the Sangha Foundation (www.sanghaworld.org). Additionally, she is the Clinical Director of Communities Healing through Art (CHART). CHART’s mission is to assist and support academic and community institutions, in the United States and abroad, in the development of art therapy programs and curricula. As Clinical Director, Gaelynn in actively involved in CHART’s major initiatives, including programming in Thailand, India, South Africa, the US mid-west, and the Gulf Coast of the United States. |
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Last Updated October 10, 2008