THE STUDIO
P.O.
Box 892
Barnstable, MA 02630
508-360-4302
- Is a center for artmaking and wellbeing, serving to advance the understanding of how visual art functions in the treatment, education, development, and enrichment of all people regardless of age, race, and ethnicity.
- Is a forum for self-discovery. Its chief function is to provide opportunity for individuals and groups to create meaningful awareness through engagement with the medium of visual art and the practice of expressive arts therapy.
- Is open to all. Formal art training and/or artistic talent are not prerequisite to participating in any studio and/or benefiting from using the expressive arts. Lack of familiarity should in no way be seen as evidence for exclusion.
SUSAN REID DANTON, M.A.
Expressive Arts Therapist
Founder and director of THE STUDIO, holds a Master's Degree in Expressive Arts Therapy with a specialization in the visual arts from Lesley College, Cambridge, MA. She received extensive clinical training at Bay Cove Mental Health Center's Community Adjustment Program in Boston, MA, and Psychiatric Services at Malden Hospital, Malden, MA. Since then, she has provided therapeutic mental health services, including expressive arts therapy, for South Bay Mental Health Center in Plymouth and Yarmouth, MA, and the Cape Psych Center at Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis, MA.
Susan opened THE STUDIO in 1997. Her focus as a therapist and workshop facilitator is to create an environment and tasks that are infinitely conducive to self-discovery, with confidentiality and respect. She offers therapeutic studio workshops of varying duration, from 3 hours to 3 months. Workshops are either "open" or "directive."