Elia Khalaf

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Awards

  • Greenhouse Lab, Trauma Informed Techniques for Educators. Funded by O, Miami (2023).

  • Infinite Seasons. Funded by the Knight Foundation through the Existent Books Initiative (2021).

  • This Writing Well. Funded by O, Miami (2021).

  • Blooming Names. Funded by O, Miami (2020).

  • Blooming Bodies. Funded by O, Miami and Awesome Miami Foundation (2018).

  • Side by Side. Funded by WaveMaker Award from Locust Projects and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts' Regional Regranting Program (2018).

  • Not My Neim. Funded by O, Miami (2017).

  • Brooklyn Public Library ProjectArt Fellowship (2017 – 2018).

  • HaikU Road Signs. Funded by O, Miami, Exile Books, Lowe Art Museum, and the Ringling Museum (2017).

  • Made-Up Memories. Funded by the Awesome Foundation. (2016).

  • New York University Scholarship Award (2017–2019).

Publications

Work In Progress:

  • Khalaf, E. and Dykeman, C. A Corpus-Based Study of Patient-Doctor Roles in Cancer Memoires.

  • Khalaf, E. and Dykeman, C. A Corpus Driven Approach to Sentiment Analysis of Poetry Writing by Physicians and Patients.

Working Papers:

  • Khalaf, E. Making Pillows: An Art Therapy Case Study in a Homeless Shelter. Under review, The Arts in Psychotherapy.

  • Khalaf, E. “Blooming Names” Community Art Therapy: Flower Altars Honoring Black Lives and Coping with Grief.

Book Chapter:

  • Scarce, J., Khalaf, E., Ballestas, A., Weinaple, D., Linton, J, and Wilson, C. (2021). Art Therapists Respond to COVID-19: Viewing Art Therapy in a New Virtual World, Self Care in a Pandemic. In Scarce, J. (Ed.), Art Therapy in Response to Natural Disaster, Mass Violence, and Crisis. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Other:

  • Khalaf, E. (2018). My Name Isn’t Aaliyah—And It’s Definitely Not Alien. Help Me Reclaim My Name. Miami Herald. Op-ed.

Exhibitions

  • Khalaf, E. Infinite Seasons. IS Projects. August 2024.

  • The Greenhouse: Safe Communities Initiative. Summer 2022 and Summer 2023.

  • Balfe, J., Barton, D., Clark-Jackson, Y., Cole, N., Daughtry, D.V., Duenas, P., Frith, L., Hoffman, A., Khalaf, E., Moise, E., Moreno, M., and Puig, J. (2023). I Am Me Resource Guide. The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.

  • Advancing Sickle Cell Advocacy Project Inc. August 2022–May 2023.

  • Real Or Not So Much! (Group Exhibition). Escondido Arts Partnership Municipal Gallery. February 2022.

  • The Writing Well Workshops. Zoom. March 24 and April 21, 2022.

  • Into the Fold (Group Exhibition). Coral Springs Museum of Art. July 6–August 21, 2021.

  • Blooming Names. Public Art and Flower-Based Art Therapy Workshops. Summer 2021.

  • For the Love of Im-Possibilities (Student Exhibition). Rosenberg Gallery,
    February 14–March 2, 2018.

  • MemoryLab (Group Exhibition). HistoryMiami Museum. March 9–April 16, 2017.

  • Khalaf, E. (2017). Control. Exile Books.

  • Khalaf, E. (2017). Memory Lab. HistoryMiami Museum.

  • Khalaf, E. (2017). Stand-Up. Exile Books.

  • Khalaf, E. (2017). Hurricane. Exile Books and IS Projects.

  • Khalaf, E. (2016). A—Zines. Exile Books.

  • Khalaf, E. (2015). The Unicycle Chronicles. Miami Ad School.

Presentations

  • Art Therapy: Inclusive Mental Health Support for Diverse Populations in Oncology. The 19th American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS) Conference. Zoom. March 9–11, 2022. (Poster Session).

  • Blooming Names. American Art Therapy Association (AATA) Annual Conference. San Diego, California. October 28–30, 2021.

  • Art Therapists Respond to COVID-19: Viewing Art Therapy in a New Virtual World, Self-Care in a Pandemic. Florida State University (FSU)’s Art Therapy Programs’ Conference on Learning from COVID-19 Experience. Tallahassee, Florida, February 3–5, 2022.