Professor Sojung Park from the Graduate School of Education awarded American Art Therapy Association’s Pearlie Roberson
- Date2020.11.13
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Professor Sojung Park, who teaches Art therapy education at the Graduate School of Education, was honored with the “The Pearlie Roberson Annual Scholarship Award,” awarded by the American Art Therapy Association (AATA).
AATA was established in 1969 as the nation's only and the world's largest art therapy member organization, consisting of about 5,000 art therapy experts, including students, educators and related practitioners. AATA annually selects and awards the candidates who contributed to the development of art therapy, and held the '2020 Honors, Awards and Scholarships Presentation' awards ceremony together with the international conference on November 4th (5th KST). This year, it was scheduled to be held in Washington, D.C., but instead it was held as a webinar through zoom due to the influence of COVID-19.
The Pearlie Roberson Annual Scholarship Award, which Professor Sojung Park received is an award given to the members who have significantly contributed to the development of the society's educational and research obligations on multicultural approaches in art therapy. In addition, Prof. Park attended the “International Networking Sessions” held together as an Asian leader.
Prof. Sojung Park is a Board-Certified Art Therapist of the American Art Therapy Association and a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist of the State of New York, USA. She was also appointed as an assistant professor in art therapy education major in the Graduate School of Education at Ewha Womans University in 2018, and was selected as an excellent lecturer at the Graduate School of Education in the second semester of 2018. Currently, she is in charge of lectures in the Department of Convergence Art Therapy in the Ph.D. program at the College of Art and Design, which was newly established in the first semester of 2020, and her interests include multicultural/interculturalism in art therapy, psychopathology, digital media, and art-based research.