About the Artist

Paula Artac, D.Min, ATR-BC, is a professional watercolor artist, board certified art therapist with the American Art Therapy Association, member of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, university instructor, liturgical art designer, illuminator and author.  For 40 years, Paula has accomplished much as a professional artist. She created her own business, Water Art by Paula Artac, and trained as an archival artwork framer. Her watercolor paintings have won local and national recognition.  “Wolf Eyes,” her award-winning watercolor, was published in Best of Watercolor II, Rockport Publishers, 1997.  Her artwork hangs in international, national, and local collections, and she is a published author on the topic of creativity, art therapy, spirituality and healing.  As a trained facilitator in the SoulCollage ® process, she has facilitated many groups and workshops.

Paula is the founder of 2 Dots and A Line non-profit, creator of the Two Dots and a Line Personal Symbol Development art therapy process, and originator of the Art Spa concept which ran for five years at Granite Reef Senior Center in Scottsdale, Arizona.  Dr. Artac has been a regular presenter at numerous national and international art therapy and expressive arts conferences and workshops since 2000.  She has developed wellness art programs with Banner Thunderbird Hospital/MD Anderson, Ironwood Cancer & Research Center, as well as Barrow Neurological Outpatient Center and Treasure House to establish and facilitate expressive arts therapy groups using the medium of watercolor. 

Teaching art and creativity in its many wondrous forms has been an essential part of her life and career.