Pat Allen & Rabbi Adina Allen - Art Therapist (USA)

Pat B. Allen, Ph.D., A.T.R., is an author, artist, art therapist, and teacher who connects to the Creative Source through art and writing. Her two books - Art Is a Way of Knowing (Shambhala 1995) and Art Is a Spiritual Path (Shambhala 2005) - explore the borders between art, psychology, spirituality, and social action, as well as a novel, Cronation. 

Her artwork has been exhibited in a wide variety of juried and invited exhibits. Pat has worked in a wide range of settings over a long clinical career and in 1995, along with two former students, she founded the Open Studio Project in Chicago, IL. OSP became a laboratory to "wrestle art therapy to the ground" and explore what is the healing nature of art, actually? From this deep personal and communal inquiry emerged the Open Studio Process, an art and writing process that Pat has shared with thousands of folks worldwide.

Currently, Pat is senior faculty at the Jewish Studio Project, a non-profit organization that was founded by her daughter, Rabbi Adina Allen. Adina has taken the work powerfully into the Jewish world and together with an amazing team of folks Pat and Adina are training others to iterate this powerful creative process in new settings.

Adina’s new book The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom is now available for pre-order.

www.patballen.com

www.jewishstudioproject.org

www.cronation.org