Wings To Fly Art Therapy Studio offers courses for personal development, creative exploration, self-care, and continuing education. Each experience is designed to support each individual in their own creative expression.
Mission
This small studio, located in a beautiful rural setting, aims to provide a creative retreat from the busy day-to-day. Dr. Partridge is also available to ‘bring the experience to you’ via art therapy and guided forest therapy walks.
““Pies para qué los quiero si tengo alas para volar”
“Feet, what do I need you for, when I have wings to fly.””
About Dr. Erin Partridge, PhD, ATR-BC
Erin Partridge, PhD, ATR-BC is an artist and board certified, registered art therapist. Her clinical experience includes work in community, pediatric, forensic, and geriatric settings. Erin received a BFA, studying fine art, psychology and women’s studies in at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. She went onto obtain a MA in art therapy from New York University in 2008, and a PhD in art therapy from Notre Dame de Namur in 2016. Erin is also a Registered SoulCollage® facilitator, Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT200) and a certified Forest Therapy guide.
In addition to teaching at Wings To Fly, Erin is a professor at Dominican University of California and Lewis and Clark University in the art therapy departments. Erin’s other teaching and lecturing experience includes guest lectures in art and counseling programs, mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, workshop facilitation at national and international conferences, and interviews with media about art therapy. Her research interests incorporate the lived experience and focus on participatory, ethnographic, and art-based approaches. She is interested in technology and new media in art therapy, an area of focus in her research, clinical, and art-based work. Dr. Partridge is published in the areas of art therapy, elder care, gender, research methods, professional development and technology.
As an artist, Erin works in what she describes as “heavy-mixed media” using a wide range of materials to create texture, depth, and metaphoric content. She has been keeping art journals since 1998; she is interested in the book as an art form and in art therapy practice. Erin has exhibited her artwork nationwide, has been published in several mixed-media publications and has an ongoing interest in collaborative art projects. In 2021, she collaborated with the community at Mandala Springs Wellness Retreat Center to build a stone labyrinth: The Bottle Rock Labyrinth. In partnership with the team at ArtSnacks, Erin is the resident artist for ArtJournalSnacks, launching in November 2022.