Multimedia  Art Therapist,​ Debra Irizarry enjoys mixing media to create art. The therapeutic qualities of the art creative process in multimedia observed by the artist has prompted her to seek a degree in art therapy to help people with mental illness achieve a better outcome in life. Her research underlies the understanding of metaphor behind the story and how the healing element is uncovered in therapy. Animating traditional drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture and clay figures  using such programs as Flash, Adobe After Effects, Painter and Photoshop among many others, has been a fun and effective way of expressing oneself and helping others do likewise. Moving towards the future Debra has been experimenting with virtual and augmented reality and ways of using these technologies in a therapeutic context. She is also very excited about the therapeutic possibilities in light painting/projection and projection mapping.

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