Bernard Levy, PhD, ATR (1924-1984). Co-founder and Director of the GW Art Therapy Program (1971-1984); Honorary Life Member of the American Art Therapy Association; Professor of Psychology and Director of Graduate Training in Clinical Psychology (1963-1967); ceramic artist and watercolorist. Dr. Levy made numerous contributions to art therapy literature, specifically in the areas of assessment and research.

Elinor Ulman, ATR (1910-1991). Co-founder of the GW Art Therapy Program and Adjunct Associate Professor from 1971-1988. Honorary Life Member of the American Art Therapy Association. Elinor Ulman was founder, editor, and publisher of The Bulletin of Art Therapy (now American Journal of Art Therapy), the first forum devoted exclusively to art therapy. She was also the primary editor of two of the first books on art therapy published in the United States.

Edith Kramer, ATR-BC. Adjunct Associate Professor in the GW Art Therapy Program since 1972. Honorary Life Member of the American Art Therapy Association, pioneer in the field of art therapy, painter and sculptor. She received an honorary doctorate from Norwich University and is the author of Art Therapy in a Children’s Community, Art as Therapy with Children, and Childhood and Art Therapy.

Hanna Yaxa Kwiatkowska, ATR (1910-1980). Adjunct Assistant Professor in the GW Art Therapy Program (1971-1980). Honorary Life Member of the American Art Therapy Association and exhibiting sculptor, Kwiatkowska pioneered clinical work in family art therapy and introduced art therapy in the research program at the National Institute of Mental Health. Author of Family Therapy and Evaluation through Art.