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Introducing EAFI

Experience the power of the arts to transform, connect, and inspire in both your personal and professional life

Discover all that Expressive Arts Florida Institute has to offer from exploring your creativity to training on how to teach expressive arts and use expressive arts in therapy.

Our Mission

Through workshops, programs, training, and therapy Expressive Arts Florida Institute empowers individuals, groups and communities by cultivating the creative wisdom inherent in all.

Our History

Expressive Arts Florida (EAFI) was co-founded in 2007 in Sarasota, Florida as an expressive arts business by Kathleen Horne, Tamara Teeter Knapp, Victoria Domenichello-Anderson, and Elizabeth Bornstein.

What is Expressive Arts?

Art is a constant agent of transformation and is the soul's drive to health

Expressive arts encompass a range of creative practices that engage the mind, body, and spirit. This dynamic field integrates multiple arts modalities including visual arts, music, dance, drama, and writing to foster self-expression, personal growth, and healing. At EAFI, we believe in the power of creativity to transform lives, nurture the human spirit, build community, and contribute to positive change in the world.

EAFI by the Numbers

Expressive Arts transforms lives

At EAFI, we value depth and personal transformation. We are proud to have over 80 graduates of our 220 hour Certificate Training Program and thousands of students worldwide who continue to transform their lives and community by cultivating their own Creative Wisdom through our programs.

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Certificate Program Alumni

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Students worldwide

Our Founders

Established in 2007

EAFI partnered with a variety of community organizations and businesses, presented at conferences, and held monthly art walks in Towles Court as part of the Towles Court Artist colony for several years before founding Expressive Arts Florida Institute in 2011. At that time, the Intermodal Expressive Arts Certificate Training Program began.

Kathleen Horne

MA, LMHC, REACE®, REAT®

Tamara Teeter Knapp

MA, NCC, REACE®, Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern, Certified K-12 Art

Victoria Domenichello-Anderson

MA, REACE®

“I am thrilled to have found a pathway that enables me to engage in meaningful work - offering healing and enrichment to others- while continuing to provide me with endless opportunities to grow as a clinician and instructor. The instructors are magnificent and bring unique, individual approaches to the training."

“The small size allows for personal and professional growth through a close relationship with peers and professionals. They have created a safe, sacred space for personal and professional development. As a result of my training I am now doing the work I only dreamed of before. I have my own studio and I do expressive arts work in my faith community as Expressive Arts Pastor."

This program has forever changed my life. It has taken me to new places and opportunities I never thought possible. I have turned an emotionally draining job into a passion that was re-ignited. I have turned from hidden-artist to artist. This is about discovering who you really are.

Words from Our Graduates

We have the most amazing students and graduates! As alumni of our certificate training program, our graduates are shining their work into the world in so many exciting ways. We are delighted to introduce you to some of the eighty (and growing) members of our Alumni Circle.