Kathline Colvin, PhD

Biography

As the Founder and Director of Healthy Artists, Dr. Kathline Colvin offers specialized services, presentations and workshops for creative and performing artists. She has enjoyed a lifelong experience of being a musician, and while integrating the psychological principles of mind-body wellness with artistic practices she continues to develop her ideas of artmaking and living inside your art as an alternative form of therapy.

In her presentation and workshop for the Women of Resilience Gathering – Art Can Heal Your Life: Extraordinary Ordinary Creativity - Kathline will offer insights into her mind-body wellness program where artmaking renews us all through the creative process, where we use art itself as the medicine that heals.

In addition to her Healthy Artists activities, Kathline lectures for various artists’ educational programs, museums and galleries’ series, and for performing arts organizations. Many of you will recall Kathline’s presentations and workshops at the Creativity and Madness and Women of Resilience conferences in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as her presentations and workshops for the Performing Arts Medicine Association. She writes a blog for her website, posts on her Healthy Artists’ Facebook page, and has authored articles on Health and Wellness, Creativity, and interdisciplinary studies in Psychology and the Arts. Kathline recently contributed a chapter for Volume 3 of Creativity and Madness: Psychological Studies of Art and Artists, edited by Barry M. Panter, MD, PhD., titled Beverly Sills: Music As The Medicine That Heals. Kathline is presently working on a book to be published later this year, exploring the confluence of psychological principles and artmaking ideas.

As a complement to her clinical psychology practice, Kathline held appointments as a Professor of Psychology at Saddleback College; served on the faculty of California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles; and was a consultant at the Los Feliz Charter School for the Arts. Kathline completed clinical fellowships at the Yale University School of Medicine and Cornell University Medical College, as well as holding academic and clinical research appointments at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, State University of New York—Health Science Center at Brooklyn, and Cornell University Medical College.

The healing practices of Art Can Heal Your Life has evolved through seeking ways to engage the healing energy that exists within artmaking, and applying the idea that art itself can become a very personal healing medicine.

Presentation Description

We often marvel at how extremely gifted people create art that touches our lives and bestows so much beauty on our world. Although we enjoy and celebrate the talents of highly creative individuals, we must also unravel their mysteries in order to be engaged ourselves in “extraordinary ordinary creativity” and to use art-making as a healing tool to enhance our daily lives. Everyone has the ability to engage in ordinary creative pursuits, and with practice and desire we can train our brains and evolve our skills into “extraordinary ordinary creativity” with rich talents that bring great personal satisfaction.

Presentation of ideas with workshop activities for all participants.