Why choose Mount Mary College for an art therapy education?

• Learn from faculty who are practicing clinicians.
  
• Enjoy a low student-to-teacher ratio.
  
• Enhance your coursework with site visits and professional guest speakers.
  
• Benefit from community-based coursework and service learning.
  
• Gain hands-on experience through a 150-hour fieldwork placement.

To work as a credentialed art therapist or psychotherapist, you will need to attain a master’s degree. Mount Mary’s Master of Science in Art Therapy is the only fully accredited graduate degree in Wisconsin approved by the America Art Therapy Association. See the current job outlook for art therapists.

Is this Program Right for You?

Do you love art? Do you want to make a difference in the world?

Whether you are a painter, a sculptor, an actor, a poet, an activist, or still questioning who you are, the art therapy program at Mount Mary College will help you think creatively about the role of the arts in the community and work social change.

If using art to help others sparks your imagination, you can contact us to find out more or to begin the admission process.

Read what one graduate student has to say about her choice to help others through art in this WauwatosaNOW article published March 2, 2011.