Simone Alter-Muri is a professor and director/founder of the undergraduate/graduate art therapy/counseling, and art education programs at Springfield College. Alter-Muri exhibits her art in galleries locally and abroad. Her work has been displayed at the Brattleboro Art Museum and at the Boston Biennial. Her research interests include: The Cultural Terrains of Tattoos, Art in Times of War and Gender and Children’s Art Development. Simone has been awarded several grants, and was the 2003 Massachusetts Art Teacher of the Year in Higher Education. She published numerous articles, chapters and presented at conferences and symposiums nationally and globally.
A sculpture by Simone Alter-Muri, EdD, professor of art and director of the art therapy and art education programs, titled “Uncertainty, Challenges and Transitions” was on display at the Art Bank in Shelburne Falls, Mass., in November and December 2016. Her sculptural books were in the exhibit Love Show at the MAP Gallery in Easthampton, Mass., in February 2017. Her sculptural cards “Ode to Georgia O’Keefe” were in the Nasty Women exhibit at the Leverett Arts Center in Leverett, Mass., in February 2017.