Kurt Fondriest
Artist on VibrantCast
I'm a semi retired expressive art therapist, educator and ordained new thought minister. My work is inspired from my childhood and sense of free imagination a child has. I'm both a registered Expressive Art Therapist and Art Therapist. I earned my MFA from the school of the Art Institute of Chicago. My work belongs in both national and International collections I have been published in numerous anthologies on the power of the expressive arts in healing I have presented at the Art therapy conferences on both state and national levels My work is in collections that is shared with Monet, Chagall and Warhol I worked at Misericordia home here in Chicago as both a Expressive Art Therapist and Holistic Minister for nearly 30 years I live with the severe pain of fibromyalgia. I have a children's story for our children living with chronic pain I wrote " The Little tree" published on The National Fibromyalgia Association site I'm active in my ministry work on mentoring individuals newly diagnosed with fibromyalgia