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Nancy Gerber, Ph.D, ATR-BC is Associate Clinical Professor Emerita and founding and former director of the Ph.D Program in Creative Arts Therapies at Drexel University. She currently is Teaching Faculty at Florida State University in the graduate Art Therapy Program. Dr. Gerber’s 22 years of clinical experience as an art psychotherapist and supervisor of creative arts therapies in a psychiatric hospital were followed by her 14 year directorship of the Graduate Art Therapy Program at Drexel University. Completing her Ph.D on doctoral education in art therapy led to her creating, authoring, and directing the Ph.D Program in Creative Arts Therapies at Drexel University for eight years prior to coming to Florida State University. Dr. Gerber has presented and published on art therapy assessment, doctoral education for art therapists, mixed methods research, aesthetic intersubjective worldview in research and practice, arts-based research, imagination in research, and the transformative aspects of creative arts therapies. Dr. Gerber has 11years experience as vice-chair of the Social and Behavioral IRB at Drexel University, is a member of the Education Committee and current chair of the Doctoral Education Subcommittee for the American Art Therapy Association. She has co-created and currently co-facilitates the Arts-Based Research SIG at the International Congress of Qualitative Research. Dr. Gerber has also led the development of an Arts-Based Research Global Consortium which engages international arts-based researchers in developing defining principles and best practices for arts-based research while conducting socially responsible global arts-based research projects. Dr. Gerber has presented at the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ECQI), the European Consortium for Arts Therapy Education Conference (ECArTE), the Mixed Methods International Research Association Conference (MMIRA) and the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI). Dr. Gerber has also co-created and co-taught a Global Classroom in Arts-Based Research with colleagues at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Dr. Gerber was the first recipient of the first Distinguished Educator’s Award from the American Art Therapy Association.
B.S in Art Education, Pennsylvania State University
M.S. in Mental Health Sciences, Art Therapy, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital
Ph.D in Interdisciplinary Sciences, Union Institute and University
Art Therapy Assessment
Group Counseling and Art Therapy
Research Philosophy and Theory for Art Therapy
Research
Practicum
Arts-Based Research
Self/other artistic inquiry for Creative Arts Therapists
Doctoral Education in Art Therapy and Creative Arts Therapies
Art Therapy Education
Mechanisms of change in the Creative Arts Therapies
Arts-based pedagogies
Arts and Mixed Methods Research Intersections
Sustaining Life on Earth: Arts-based responses to the lived experience of COVID-19
Art Therapy Research Strategic Planning