This page features short videos that highlight key points in studio thinking for therapy and education. Since these topics often come up together, I decided to create brief videos and gather them here in this library. Feel free to use and share these videos; they may also be helpful for teaching and supervision. Save this page link for future reference, as more videos are planned to be added here.     Nona Orbach nonaorbach@gmail.com

A Roadmap for Art Educators and Art Therapists Art teachers, art therapists, and artists express themselves, among other ways, in the language of materials, classification of the different media and tools, organizing furniture and shelves, serving as a text with its own intrinsic logic, which influences both body and mind. Every shelf of materials can be perceived as a sentence, every cabinet as a paragraph. They function as an alchemical, metaphorical basis supporting the cre

The crickets sing a melody that indicates that night is coming. There is a constancy, as if breathing were permanent, keeping the music...

There's something magical about a sandbox—you have no limits. When you play in a sandbox, you can create an entire world of princesses...

The Botanisierbüchse my mother gave me (photo by Ami Siano) Found I walked the woodland, A lonesome man To look for nothing- That was my...

She stormed into the room, the familiar cloud of scent I’d come to know so well over the past year following in her footsteps. A sharp...

The identity of the space called atelier , within the educational field, originates from the theory of the Hundred Languages, which...

She enters the studio, closes the door behind her, and immediately goes to the table. Beside the table, there is a large box with...

PHILOSOPHY OF SPONTANEOUS IMAGE-MAKING WITHIN AN ENVIRONMENT A wide sandy beach off the Atlantic Ocean was my first studio. Throughout my childhood, I played there, sculpting and drawing in the sand. I was unaware that countless generations of children before me, even centuries ago, had played on this same beach with this same sand, and created forms, mounds, tunnels and holes, that probably resembled my own. The children of my generation had limited art materials and often p

It’s Monday. Gali appears at the doorway in her pyjamas. “Slime!” The glue cap is stuck, it has been fused to its body since last Monday....

You have to go down the emergency stairs to get to the shelter. The ceramics studio is located in the basement. Each step descends into...

Crammed in the protected room with my partner, my patient, my son and my grandchildren My partner, my patient, and I lean on the concrete...