Tamar Ackerman
Tamar Ackerman is currently a student in the Master of Arts program in Art Therapy at the Steinhardt School for Education, Culture, and Development at New York University. As part of her graduate work, Ackerman recently completed a Master’s thesis entitled “The Role of the Art Therapist as a Maternal Object of Transference: Children with Attachment Disorders.”
In June 2011, Tamar Ackerman concluded an art therapy internship at the Ittleson Center in The Bronx, New York, where she coordinated and conducted family therapy sessions, offered individual art therapy sessions for children, and co-facilitated journalism, photography, and trauma-focused processing groups for clients. She previously served the Bronx Children’s Psychiatric Center as an art therapy intern, where she led individual and group art therapy sessions for children receiving inpatient psychiatric care. Tamar Ackerman has also served as an art staff member for organizations that include the Rebecca School in New York, dedicated to teaching children who have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders, and Camp Moshava in Pennsylvania.
Deeply invested in her community, Tamar Ackerman has made a substantial commitment to service. Over the years, Ackerman has volunteered at a range of hospitals and related programs, including the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center, Lenox Hill Hospital, and the SOVRI Hotline for sexual abuse victims, operated by Beth Israel Hospital. Beginning in September 2004, Ackerman lived for nine months in Jerusalem, Israel, where she worked with young adults experiencing developmental disability and blindness at the Keren Or Institute.
Skilled at clay modeling, collage, and painting, Ackerman has exhibited her artwork in shows that include Bronfman Jewish Artist Fellowship Exhibitions in 2009 and 2010, and “Einstein on Witherspoon Street: Expressions for Social Justice.” She has served as a private art teacher for children and has worked as a Hebrew Reading Specialist at the Temple Shaaray Tefila School in New York City. In 2008, Tamar Ackerman graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from New York University, where she studied Jewish History and Psychology.
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