Graduate degree in art therapy with LPC-designed coursework and 1,000 client-contact hours.
One Month Study Abroad Program in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria
MAAT, Art Therapy, 2008
San Francisco City College
San Francisco, CA
Psychology of Race and Ethnic Relations, Ceramics, Sex and Gender in America, 2004-2005
Academy of Art College
San Francisco, CA
BFA, Fine Art (sculpture emphasis), 2003
Riverside Community College
Riverside, CA
Associate in Arts, 2000
Artists-In-Residence Programs
Marina Abramovic: Cleaning the House
Chatham, NY
Mind, body and spirit exercises for individual and group performers. Led by Marina Abramovic, 2009
20th Galicnik Art Colony
Galicnik, Macedonia
“New Media” Special Invitation, 2009
The Watermill Center
Watermill, NY
Igor Josifov and Michael Ryan Noble, Artists-In-Residence, 2008
Exhibitions and Performances
“degeneration”
San Francisco, CA
Inaugural performance series and reception for the Marina Abramovic Institute of San Francisco, 2009
“Being You, uses me”
Berkeley, CA
Performance and exhibition at Alphonse Berber Gallery, 2009
“animusanima”
San Francisco, CA
Performance at Langton Labs, 2009
“unATTAINable”
San Francisco, CA
Performance at the Shih Yu-Lang Theatre
“Past Present Permanent (mental prison)”
New York, NY
Opening Night performance for the Bridge Art Fair in New York, 2009
“held”
Berlin, Germany
Opening Night performance for the Bridge Art Fair in Berlin, 2008
“Emit”
New York, NY
Performance at the Watermill Center, 2008
“flooded”
New York, NY
Performance at the Watermill Center, 2008
“Manumission”
New York, NY
Performance at the Watermill Center, 2008
“nonotnonsensenothingbutsecrets”
San Francisco, CA
Performance at “Dollhouse Studios” artist community, 2008
“Circular Illuminations”
Evanston, IL
Dual exhibition with Madelene Griffin, Open Studio Project, 2007
“Art of Connection”
Chicago, IL
“Correspondence and Documentation Committee” member
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “Betty Rymer Gallery”, 2007
“Humor Exhibit”
Chicago, IL
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Counseling and Health Services, 2007
“A Collaboration of Altered Minds”
Chicago, IL
Chicago Artist’s Month, “Skewer’s Café and Grill”, 2006
Art show/auction
Chicago, IL
Sell artwork to raise funds for an art therapy program in Mumbai, India
“Skewer’s Café and Grill”, 2006
“hatingholdinghurtingholdinghelpinghealinghearinghanging”
Chicago, IL
Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “280 Columbus Gallery”, 2005
“poetofalltrades—masterofnone”
Chicago, IL
Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “112 Michigan Gallery”, 2005
“Potential”
San Francisco, CA
Academy of Art College, “625 Sutter Gallery”, 2004
“isetmyselfonthispathfollowingadirectionthatbestfitsmyunderstanding” SF,CA
Performance at the Academy of Art College, “410 Bush Gallery”, 2003
“snowman/caveman”
San Francisco, CA
Guerilla art at the Academy Art College, “410 Bush Gallery”, 2003
“Intensity: a group show”
San Francisco, CA
Academy of Art College, “680 Sutter Gallery”, 2003
Employment
Embarcadero YMCA, Aquatics and Member Services Director
San Francisco, CA
Supervisor: Kristen Greenville, Executive Director
2000-2009
Managed the Aquatic and Member Service departments for a non-profit organization that served 5,000 members; trained 30-40 part-time and full-time staff and volunteers. Raised money for the annual campaigns and developed programs for the community programs offered through this branch.
Toomey-Tourell Gallery
San Francisco, CA
Supervisor: Co-owner: Stephen Tourell
2003-current
Install artworks and perform curatorial duties in home gallery and expositions in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles; acted as liaison with artists including Lynda Benglis and Clinton Fein.
Internships
Gateway Foundation
Lake Villa, IL
Supervisor: Barbara Fish, Phd, ATR-BC, LCPC, Art Therapist
2006-2007
Provide individual and group art therapy sessions for adolescent male substance abusers who are court ordered into residential treatment. Conduct team-based treatment in a residential-educational facility: consult with counselors and teachers, provide documentation of services, and provided inservice training.
Loretto Hospital
Chicago, IL
Supervisor: Jeremy Riddle, MAAT, ATR, LPC, Art Therapist
2006
Provided individual art therapy sessions on inpatient psychiatric units. Co-facilitate art therapy, recovery, and anger management groups on psychiatric units and addictions recovery program. Implemented assessments and provided documentation of services.
Volunteer Experience
Root Division
San Francisco, CA
Supervisor: Ashley Kalemjian
2007-2008
Facilitated art projects with first and third grade girls to modify behavior and build interpersonal relationships.
Napa State Hospital
Napa, CA
Supervisor: Ron Lay, ATR, Art Therapist
July and August, 2006
Facilitated art therapy groups at a forensic state hospital facility with a male, geriatric population. Attend weekly treatment plan meetings with the Positive Behavioral Support Team and promoted the facility’s transition from a biopsychosocial model to the wellness and recovery model.
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL
Supervisor: Robyn Hart, MEd, Director of Child Life Services 2006-2007
Child Life Services volunteer, provide activities, entertainment, and interaction for a youth in-patient population with medical issues and their families in various levels of care.
Creativity Explored
San Francisco, CA
Supervisor: Francis Kohler, Studio Manager
2005 Facilitated projects with member artists from a developmentally disabled adult population.
Youth Chance High School
San Francisco, CA
Supervisor: Spencer Tolliver, Principal
2004-2005
Art teacher for at-risk adolescents achieving GED or diploma.
Publications
20079X12123: A Review of Don Seiden’s Exhibition at the Open Studio Project
Newsletter of the Illinois Art Therapy Association: Spring, 2007
Presentations
Contemporary Art for the Art Therapist: Revisiting Concepts, Media and Practices
Illinois Art Therapy Association, 2010
To Be An Art Therapist: Creating, Defining, Enacting as a New Professional
40th Conference of the American Art Therapy Association. Dallas, TX, 2009
Performance Workshop
Museum of Modern Art, Media Department, 2009
To Be An Art Therapist: Creating, Defining, Enacting as a New Professional
American Art Therapy Association. Cleveland, OH, 2008
Don Seiden: Founding a Community for Art Therapists in the Chicago Area
American Art Therapy Association. Cleveland, OH, 2008
Reflections on Originality: Lecture on Projects and the Underlying Concepts with Igor Josifov
The Watermill Center, 2008
Don Seiden and the Immaterial Medium: Forming a Relationship and a Philosophy with the Charter President of the Illinois Art Therapy Association
Illinois Art Therapy Association Conference, 2008
Don Seiden and the Immaterial Medium: Forming a Relationship and a Philosophy with the Founder of the Master of Arts in Art Therapy Program at the School of the Art institute of Chicago
Gene Siskel Film Center, 2007
Identity: Experience and Discovery, M. Ryan Noble’s “potential” series
Presentation for students with a critique by an interdisciplinary Faculty Panel
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2005