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Roberta Shoemaker-Beal


Wimberley, Central Texas
About

Roberta Shoemaker-Beal, MFA, ATR-BC: INACS Secretary/Parliamentarian. Roberta works as a registered practicing clinical art therapist and art therapy educator. For over 25 years, worked to develop and document the inherently curative benefits of expressive arts experiences, in a variety of clinical settings: psychiatric, chemical dependency and adolescent centers, and, as consultant in private practice. Roberta served 4 years on the Executive Board of the American Art Therapy Association and was Editor of the first AATA Proceedings: Creativity and the Art Therapists Identity. Her early writings were focused on the evolution of consciousness, including the Guide list of Observable Dimensions in Artwork and the theory of Basic Visual Constructs. This work parallels the documentation of a psycho-physiology of color, related to the evolving awareness of the Rainbow Phenomenon, which reflects a wholistic evolution of consciousness development in the paradigm shift happening now.