🎨 New Tutorial: Creating a Collage in FrameShare
Want to explore one of the most powerful tools in the art therapy toolkit? This 2-minute video walks you through the basics of making a digital collage—importing images, layering, erasing, and cropping—all inside FrameShare.
During the recent Israel–Iran conflict, an art therapist working with school-age children shifted her practice to FrameShare, using it as a remote tool to maintain therapeutic connection amid trauma and displacement.
“It provides a form of togetherness,” she shared. “Anything that can be done together really improves the connection and forms the bond that is not really there in most digital settings.”
The therapist noted that children—already digitally fluent—took quickly to the interface. “It was easy to explain,” she said, adding that kids found it both accessible and fun.
In therapeutic sessions, FrameShare enabled students to externalize anxiety through symbolic artmaking. One group “gave themselves superpowers.” Another child, a long-term client who expresses deep emotion through illustration, was finally able to draw live with her therapist after years of only sending static images.
“Zoom would take that piece away,” the therapist explained. “FrameShare allows them to do it.”
FrameShare was featured in an art therapy research course at Lewis & Clark Graduate School, where students spent the class collaborating on real-time assessments, experimenting with digital tools, and reflecting on how technology might expand access and impact in therapeutic settings.
Take a look at the artwork from some of the eight students in the class!
FrameShare was first tested in an academic setting during the final exam of the
Assessments in Art Therapy course at Springfield College’s Master’s in Art Therapy program.
Conducted remotely over four hours, the student and their subject completed several standardized assessments using FrameShare’s digital platform:
- Person Picking an Apple from a Tree (PPAT)
- Hanes Road Drawing
- Magazine Photo Collage
