Art Therapy Faculty

Meet Our

Art Therapy Faculty

  • Professor, Department Chair of Art Education & Community Arts Practices and Program Head of Art Therapy
    Art Education, Art Therapy

    Lisa Kay, EdD, ATR-BC

    • Email: lisakay@temple.edu
    • Phone: 215-777-9264
    • Office: Tyler B10J
    • ON LEAVE, FALL 2023

      Lisa Kay is an artist/researcher, art educator, and art therapist whose creative voice is manifested in and enhanced by the integration of these three identities. She considers art, teaching, and therapy as an integral part of her art practice.

      A board-certified art therapist, Kay's research interests combine her curiosity about artistic development, the psychology of child art, artists with disabilities and the healing potentials of the arts with children, adolescents and adults. Her publications concern the intersections and...

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  • Assistant Professor of Instruction
    Art Therapy

    Michaela Herr, MA, ATR-BC, LPC

    • Email: michaela.herr@temple.edu
    • Office: 201K
    • Website: www.Mindfullyrootedarttherapy.com 
    • Michaela Herr is passionate about the expressive arts therapies and their ability to heal, empower, transform and uplift people. She is fueled by social justice, connection and community, and integrates her work with people into the classroom for a hands-on, experiential-based learning experience.

      Faculty advisor for Therapeutic Art Club 

      MA, Lesley University
      BA,...

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  • Adjunct Instructor
    Art Therapy

    Julie Nolan, MA, ATR-BC

    • Email: julie.nolan@temple.edu
    • Julie Nolan has worked at Magee Rehabilitation Hospital for eight years and is passionate about practicing art therapy in the rehabilitative medical setting. Having supervised undergraduate and graduate art therapy students from schools around the Philadelphia area since 2016, she is excited to be teaching in the classroom at Tyler. 

      MA, Drexel University
      BA, University of Delaware
       

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