SEVDA ASQAROVA
She was born in 1954. Between 1969-1986, She completed her undergraduate, graduate and doctorate programs in two different disciplines (Psychology - Pedagogy and Musicology) with the first place. He has the titles of Associate Professor and Professor from the indicated fields of science. He is the Founder of Conservatory and Occupational Therapy Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Doctorate Programs in Turkey and abroad. He conducts thesis mentorship in related fields. There are many published National and International articles, methods, books (textbooks, monographs…) and translations. She worked as a member in foreign and domestic scientific organizations and as a manager (Dean, Rector's Advisor, Department Head, Department and Program Founder) in universities. She is on the Board of Referees of International Journals. He holds the EU Project Management Certificate and EU Project Training Certificates. Among the Domestic and International Projects and Books that he has been the director of in different years, UNESCO; It was deemed worthy of OXFORD and Türkiye EDUCATION FOUNDATION awards. She is still working as an Occupational Therapy Faculty Member at Üsküdar University Faculty of Health Sciences and as the Director of MÜTEM - Music Therapy Research and Application Center.
EDA ÖZ ÇELİKBAŞ
Artist-academic and Art Therapy Practitioner Trainer, born in Mersin. She graduated from Gazi University (PhD). She started her art studies with subjects such as Turkish coffee, evil eye, Turkish symbols, Turkish teachings, Central Asian and Turkic tribes, Yoruks, local beliefs, shamanism, mysticism, ethnicity, semiotics, symbolism and cultural symbolism, symbolic imagery.
After these studies, he followed her work in the field of Art therapy as a continuation of symbolism, symbolic and cultural imagination and expressionism.
She has been working in the field of Art and Therapy since 2012 and is a member of the Art and Psychotherapy Association.
The artist, who has 8 personal exhibitions and many group exhibitions, including national and international, offers different workshop ideas in the field of material painting and art therapy, and also brings suggestions from traditional arts. In the context of art and therapy, he regularly organizes domestic and international workshops and projects. In addition to distance education and continuing education centers in the field of Art Therapy, Art and Therapy courses and trainings are carried out in the master’s degree in Painting.
She takes place as a project partner and project manager in various State institutions in Europe and Turkey. He is one of the project partners of the International Art Therapy Project of the Turkish Ministry of Family and Social Services. She continues Art Therapy projects in partnership with Poland, Romania, Sweden and Finland, and Art Therapy Studies in partnership with the Ancient City of Hadrianoupolis.
She is a faculty member at Karabük University, Safranbolu Fethi Toker Fine Arts and Design Faculty, Painting Department.
İSMAİL LÜTFÜ EROL
Director – Academician
Doctor of Art History (Hacettepe University)
Studied directing at Łódź Film School
Lectured 35 Years at Hacettepe University - Taught Staff at Middle East Technical University and Baskent University
Member of Başkent University Conservatory Founding Faculty
Founder of Orchestra Academic Başkent and Artistic Director of the Orchestra for15 Years
Directed “An Anatolian Night in Anatolia” a Musical Grand Stage Piece
Libretto Author of GÖBEKLITEPE OPERA staged by the State Opera and Ballet
Produced and Managed 4 Documentary and various promotional films (Istanbul 2nd HABITAT International Congress Opening, Turkey Promotional Film and Eurovision Song Contests / Turkey promotional films used at the opening of the South Korean Olympics ..)
Turkey Consultant for a Hollywood-produced movie ("Endless Hours" - 2001)
8 years of TV Program Production - Consulting and Presenting at TRT and Channel B
Producer and Presenter of TRT 3 Radio - Radio Middle East Technical University Program
Consulted in Various Institutions and Organizations at T C. Ministry of Culture Consulting between 1997-2003
Author of various articles and 4 books, editor of 3 books
He still lecturing on Science and Art Culture at Middle East Technical University.
(1989 -2023).
GILAH YELIN HIRSCH
Gilah Yelin Hirsch, BA University of California Berkeley, MFA University of California Los Angeles; Professor of Art Emerita California State University Dominguez Hills Los Angeles. Her multidisciplinary work in various media including painting, filmmaking, writing, photography, architecture, etc. combines art, design, anthropology, architecture, theology, philosophy, psychology, psychoneuroimmunology, and world culture, focuses on the relationship between art and science. Her work has been published in journals and books and exhibited in museums and galleries internationally since 1968 including LA County Museum of Art and Whitney Museum, NY, National Museum Budapest, Hungary, and Israel Biennale. Numerous grants and awards include US National Endowment for the Arts; Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy; International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine for “innovative blending of science and art revealing existing relationships between forms in nature, forms in human physiology and the forms that are present in all alphabets”. Hirsch was a founder of the first feminist art organization, LA Council of Women Artists 1972, and a pioneer in psychoneuroimmunology. Her archives are collected by the Smithsonian Archive of American Art.
