MEMBERS SHOWCASE 2026
Final registration deadline for the September 14–27 exhibition at Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis.
SHOWCASE DETAILSHOMEPAGE
INDIANA ART THERAPY ASSOCIATION
ART THERAPY
IN INDIANA
IndiATA is Indiana’s professional association for art therapy. We connect the people practicing it, the students entering it, the public looking for it, and the Indiana systems that want to understand or connect with the profession.
Art therapy brings psychotherapy, creative process, sensory experience, relationship, and professional clinical training into one field.
Psychotherapy
Clinical relationship, assessment, treatment and reflection.
Art process
Images, materials, form, metaphor and visual communication.
Sensory
Material, embodied and perceptual ways of processing experience.
Relationship
Meaning develops within the professional therapeutic context.
Training
Graduate art therapy education and supervised clinical preparation.
Indiana
Professionals, students, systems, advocacy and statewide connection.
START HERE
WHAT BRINGS YOU TO INDIATA?
Go directly to the part of IndiATA that matches what you need.
Find art therapy
Locate art therapists and understand the professional information you may see in a listing.
Members + art therapistsMembership, professional connection, chapter participation, events, advocacy and member resources.
RIGHT NOW
CURRENT INDIATA WORK
Current dates and opportunities with immediate relevance to members, students, colleagues and the Indiana art therapy community.
MEMBERS SHOWCASE RECEPTION
Join IndiATA at Phoenix Theatre for the 2026 Members Showcase reception during the September 14–27 exhibition.
RECEPTION + EXHIBITIONISMA WELLNESS SYMPOSIUM
IndiATA returns for a third consecutive invitation, connecting art therapy with Indiana physicians and the medical community.
PARTICIPATIONTHE ASSOCIATION
WHAT INDIATA DOES
IndiATA provides statewide professional infrastructure for connection, learning, advocacy, participation and accurate public understanding of art therapy.
A professional association built around the field in Indiana.
IndiATA connects people, information, professional development, advocacy, student pathways and public understanding across the state.
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Professional connection
Connects people across regions, settings, graduate programs, career stages and professional roles.
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Professional development
Supports professional learning, exchange, relevant information and future continuing education programming.
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Advocacy
Advances accurate representation, professional recognition, public protection and informed Indiana advocacy.
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Student engagement
Builds statewide pathways through Student Representatives, chapter participation, advocacy, events and professional connection.
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Public + systems education
Helps Hoosiers and Indiana systems understand the profession, credentials, practice and how to connect with qualified art therapists.
ART THERAPY IN INDIANA
THE PROFESSION, IN CONTEXT
Art therapy is a mental health profession integrating psychotherapeutic processes with art-making and creative processes within a professional art therapy relationship. Talking can be part of the work; images, materials, sensory experience, metaphor, reflection and communication beyond words can be part of it too.
ART THERAPY CAN WORK THROUGH
Conversation
Language, reflection, therapeutic dialogue
and shared clinical understanding.
Images
Visual expression, symbol, form,
narrative and meaning.
Materials
Sensory, tactile and material processes
within clinical work.
Metaphor
Ways to approach experience indirectly,
symbolically or beyond literal language.
Relationship
The professional therapeutic relationship
remains part of the clinical frame.
Reflection
Looking, noticing, talking,
revisiting and developing meaning over time.
INDIANA MENTAL HEALTH WORKFORCE CAPACITY
Mental health workforce planning depends on counting the professionals already providing care.
Art therapists are already practicing across Indiana. When a profession is not identified distinctly in workforce systems, part of the state’s existing clinical capacity becomes harder to measure, connect and plan with.
COUNT
Identify the professionals already contributing to Indiana’s mental health workforce.
SEE
Build a more complete picture of professional capacity, service settings and workforce presence.
PLAN
Use a more complete workforce picture when understanding shortages, opportunities, access and future investment.
FIND AN ART THERAPIST
LOOKING FOR ART THERAPY SERVICES IN INDIANA?
IndiATA is a professional membership association. It does not provide therapy, assign clinicians, evaluate treatment needs or recommend a specific clinician.
Find professional art therapy services.
FIND AN ART THERAPIST
Use the dedicated IndiATA resource to search professional directories, understand directory scope, review credentials and licenses, and contact listed professionals directly.
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Search
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Verify
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Contact
MEMBERS + STUDENTS
BE PART OF THE STATEWIDE PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY.
Connect with the chapter, professional information, advocacy, events, student pathways and meaningful ways to participate.
INDIANA SYSTEMS + PARTNERS
CONNECT WITH THE PROFESSION.
Hospitals, schools, behavioral health organizations, universities, employers, community organizations and professional partners can contact IndiATA for general professional information and connection.
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