Improver

Yehudis Barmatz

Multi-Media Artist/Art Therapist

Yad Binyamin, Central

Discovering the healing and revealing nature of artistic expression, connecting to place and identity, through practicing as a Hassidic Jewish Feminine Artist, Art Therapist, and Jewish Art Advocate/Writer:

Multi-Media Artist.
Exhibits in the U.S., Israel, Holland.
BFA graduate from Pratt Institute: Concentration in Sculpture, extracurricular courses in Art Education.

Jewish Art Initiatives.
Contributing writer at Jewish Art Now.
Researching and writing on the expanding contemporary "Jewish Art" in Israel.
Initiator/Coordinator of Art Programs/Exhibits within peripheral populations in Israel.


Art Therapist.
Specializing in developmental delays including ADHD and LD, parental guidance, children, teenagers, and women.

Approaches include:

Art as Therapy/ Dynamic/ Developmental

Art Therapy certification from Seminar Hakibbutzim, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2013. Master Degree, ASA Netanyah (previously Leslie College). Fieldwork in child group therapy at elementary school in Macabbeem/Reut, and at "Bayit Cham," a public mental health clinic for Ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods in Central Israel.

Experience in Public Mental Health, Ultra-Orthodox population, children at risk, providing guidance to educational staff.

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Experience:

• Art Therapist (Leumit Health Services - לאומית שירותי בריאות)
• Freelance Artist (Yehudis Barmatz-Harris Studio)
• Art Therapist (Moatza Ezurit Nahal Soreq)
• Art Therapist (Ezer Mizion)
• After School Art Teacher (Matnas Nahal Soreq)

Skills: